Peer Support Worker

3 days ago

Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Livewell Southwest Full time
Job Summary

Livewell Southwest is seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Peer Support Worker to join our Discharge Mental Health Team. As a Peer Support Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting individuals with mental health needs to regain control over their lives and build connections with their local communities.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
  • Provide peer support and practical assistance to service users and their carers to empower them to regain control over their lives and build connections with their local communities.
  • Work across the adult inpatient pathway and VCSE, supporting service users to transition between services.
  • Support individuals to access a variety of individual and group opportunities to ensure a supportive discharge from hospital.
  • Act as a recovery champion across mental health services pathways and act as an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.
  • Participate in the ongoing development of the role and contribute to the evaluation of the PSW training programme.
Responsibilities
  • Form and maintain supportive relationships with service users.
  • Accompany service users to appointments with agencies across the pathway.
  • Share ideas about ways of achieving recovery goals, drawing on personal experience and a range of coping, self-help and self-management techniques.
  • Support patients to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
  • Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness.
Requirements
  • Lived experience of using mental health services.
  • Previous care experience with people who have mental health difficulties.
  • Ability to manage time and plan work.
  • Ability to work in a team effectively.
Qualifications
  • Vocational Qualification Level III or equivalent qualification/skills/knowledge and ability to work to this level.
  • To complete the NCFE level 2 in understanding and supporting people with mental health needs and complete care certificate within the first 6 months of joining unless already obtained.

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