B3 Peer Support Worker

Parent/carer peer support workers provide emotional support and practical assistance to parent/carers whose child/young person is currently open to CYP Mental Health Services. Through drawing from, and sharing, their own experiences a parent/carer peer support worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible, and support families to feel hopeful about the future.

Recognising the pivotal role parent/carers play in supporting their child’s mental health, alongside the emotional impact of caring for a child experiencing emotional distress, this role will always involve supporting parent/carers to engage in CYP services, as well as access relevant support in their local community and, where appropriate, link to carer organisations.

As the role will also involve gathering and representing the views of those we work with to improve the service, we are looking for individuals with good communication skills who are passionate about co-producing services with children and families. If you enjoy working as part of a team and want to make a difference in people’s lives, then this may be the opportunity for you.

Please note, applicants will need to be able to travel independently across the county.

The role of a Child and Young Person (CYP) Peer Support Worker (PSW) has been developed specifically for individuals who have lived experience of mental distress and have used mental health services. A CYP PSW would have lived experience of accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and/or engaged in treatment or support from a mental health/emotional wellbeing service when an adolescent. Under the supervision of a qualified mental health practitioners, the CYP PSW will support the delivery of a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary community mental health service for children and young people. The PSW will do this through providing emotional support to young people and families to help them meet their recovery goals. Through sharing their own experience, PSW’s will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible, helping young people to feel more positively about their future. The post holder will work under the supervision of mental health practitioners, which may include PSW’s Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrists, and Assistant Practitioners etc)

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future.

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

As well as all the usual NHS benefits, LPFT also provides an enhanced benefits package including early access to psychological support and physiotherapy, support with transport and travel, financial wellbeing packages and discounts.
- To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
- Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with children, young people and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
- To support the patient’s engagement in services and support them to identify and meet recovery goals.
- Support young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their emotional and social development.
- Support young people who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
- Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
- Contribute to the development of peer support opportunities amongst young people open to mental health services.
- Contribute to the development of children and young person’s involvement and participation
- To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW role and the wider service, i