Peer Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with lived experience of receiving care from mental health services and lived experience of psychosis or lived experience of extraordinary / unusual / confusing / puzzling thoughts and perceptions.
As a peer support worker, you will be a valued member of the North community mental health team team working alongside a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team. You will be able to share relevant personal experiences and draw on insights and skills developed through your own recovery to come alongside people using services on a one-to-one and group basis to explore people’s own goals and personalised recovery.
We will support your learning as a peer support worker and access an ImROC training programme to develop skills to equip you for a career in peer support.
It is anticipated this will be a dynamic role with lots of variation and will include tasks such as;
Providing peer support to people accessing services
Understand a person’s experiences in relation to their mental health
To enable/assist/support service users to develop self-management of their condition taking an empowering approach to promote independence
Co-production is at the heart of our service and will be vital within the role of peer support worker, in terms of the development of the service.
To draw upon lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users to support their recovery
Supporting people in their personal recovery by helping them to identify their strengths, values and aspirations
Working with people in public places, and a range of community settings; building and maintaining safe and effective relationships
Contribute to the collaborative planning and review of Recovery Goals with service users and team members
To work closely with colleagues as part of the team supporting a service user with their recovery
To work with a diverse group of people either in groups or individually
To provide recovery approaches which are supervised by senior colleagues in the team
**Support the use of psychological strategies**: active listening, problem solving and coping strategies, support for self-management, self-help and self-care
Helping service users engage with and build connections and a sense of belonging to their local communities and meaningful activities
To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of service users
Support service users to build their understanding and coping skills and autonomy on a one-to-one basis and in therapeutic groups
To co-produce and deliver training
To assist in the audit and evaluation of services provided
The Northlands community mental health team provides support to adults living in the North of Sheffield who have complex or ongoing mental health needs.
We provide health and social care support to help aid recovery, promote independence and improve both physical and mental wellbeing.
The support we offer can be described under three broad categories, which includes care for:
Psychotic disorders
Non-psychotic disorders
Personality disorders
All of the support we provide will be based on your individual needs and you will be fully involved in deciding what will work best for you.
We will regularly review your care plan with you and anyone else you would like to be involved in your care, such as family, loved one or carer.
The Community mental health team works closely with the Trust’s Home Treatment Team who provide short-term support at home to avoid admission to hospital.
**Working with service users and their families or carers**:
To draw upon your lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users to support their recovery. Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships. Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships
Understand a person’s experiences in relation to their mental health
Advocating for people to be treated with dignity and respect
Acting as a Named Worker for a designated caseload to ensure service users receive a consistent approach and a named person to contact. This will involve building a working relationship and to promote an individual’s ability to manage their own needs and independence. As a named worker you will work in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary team to support the overall care and treatment plan of the individual.
Support service-user access to digital interventions/technology
To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of someone using services
Understand a person’s coping strategies and strengths and support people to use these at times of distress or difficult
To enable/assist/support service users to develop self-management of their condition taking an empowering approach to promote independence (‘doing with’ and empowering, ‘not ‘doing for’ people).
To recognise escalating informing others as appropriate.
To report untoward incidents and