I-rock Peer Specialist Project Worker

5 days ago

Hastings, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Full time

Providing support to young people during the opening hours of the project; either face to face, by video link.
- Conducting triage assessments of young people who access the project, demonstrating an understanding of mental health issues affecting young people aged 14 - 25.
- Providing specialist advice, resources and consultation through an offer of brief interventions at the project including sleep hygiene, anxiety management and low mood.
- Offering effective and appropriate signposting to other agencies and ensure any support plan provides joined up care.
- To support others who are overcoming mental health challenges in their journey to recovery and wellbeing.
- Peer Specialist Project Workers will be expected to triage young people as they drop into the service alongside the offer of Peer Support Work.
- Peer Specialist Project Workers will provide high-quality drop-in support and brief interventions where necessary.
- Peer Support workers engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting individuals to gain and maintain independence in the community.
- The role is to focus on the day-to-day holistic support needs of service users. Self-managed care is essential to this: the supported person is encouraged to assess their own needs and to develop and implement a self-management plan.
- Peer Support is delivered through promoting empowerment and choice and giving the opportunity for the exploration of meaning and purpose.
- Supervision will be used to continuously reflect on, evaluate and develop peer approaches

When you join us, you’ll be coming to work in an organisation that puts people first. We’ll do everything we can to make you feel valued, respected and included. You will be given plenty of opportunities here for your career to flourish. We’re an organisation which is strong on innovation, research and learning, and we will support your development and help you learn new skills in whichever team or service you work in.
- Engage with and gather information from young people, relatives and patient records to develop an appropriate action plan.
- Provide specialist advice, resources and consultation through an offer of brief interventions.
- To support individuals and groups using a Peer approach when needed.
- To be a positive role model for other people overcoming mental health challenges, other workers and members of the public.
- To use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate.
- To use appropriate skills in engaging with individuals with mental health challenges, eg asking open-ended questions, validating strengths and experiences and using empowering language to overcome negative self-talk.
- To support and enable individuals with mental health challenges to resolve conflicts and regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment based on the principles of peer supported recovery such as sharing your personal recovery story.
- To support individuals in meeting holistic needs (education, welfare, employment, financial, leisure, housing, spiritual, etc) in partnership with other individuals, care team and agencies and within a recovery environment.
- To undertake any other such duties as may reasonably fall within the remit of the post, as required by the Manager/Supervisor

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