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Mental Health Support Specialist

4 weeks ago


Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Peer Support Worker to join our team in the Young Persons Transition Pathway. As a Peer Support Worker, you will play a vital role in providing mental health support to young people transitioning from Children's Mental Health services to Adult Mental Health Services.

Main Responsibilities

As an integral member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, helping them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey.

You will share your own lived experience of mental health challenges with service users and carers, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible. You will also facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

What We Offer

  • Support for your career development and progression
  • Excellent NHS Pension scheme
  • Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
  • Options for flexible working
  • Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
  • Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
  • Free car parking at all trust sites
  • Free flu vaccinations every year
  • Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

Person Specification

Essential

  • Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work-based learning and mandatory training, including accredited peer support worker training if not previously undertaken
  • Willingness to undertake or completion of ImROC Peer Support training

Desirable

  • Accredited peer support worker training

Experience

Essential

  • Own personal lived experience of mental health challenges
  • Own personal experience of accessing inpatient mental health services
  • Willingness to positively share own life experiences and personal experience of mental health challenges with service users and carers
  • Experience of actively supporting individuals to identify and work towards achieving personal goals in a related social care or health setting (paid or unpaid)

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to demonstrate first-person experiential knowledge of recovery
  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others
  • Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an ability to form peer relationships with service users and carers
  • Ability to communicate on all levels and to a broad scope of individuals, both internally and externally to the Trust

Desirable

  • Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of mental health issues