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Senior Peer Supporter
2 weeks ago
Job summary
The principal role of the post holder will be to support service users to establish greater control over their lives and their decisions, during their care and treatment whilst in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) mental health and learning disability services.
The post holder will have direct contact with service users mainly on a one to one basis but at times in group settings. They will support service users, their carer's and supporters to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognising that each individual's recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.
They will support staff to identify, understand and respect aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose to service users, creating an awareness in staff of the key role that service user's experience, may play in their identity and how it influences the way they cope with their current problems.
A key feature of the post will be to promote visible recovery by drawing on their own unique lived experience of recovery as a service user or carer, and how the wisdom that comes with this can support others on their personal journey.
Main duties of the job
Secondment opportunity- 7 months- covering MAT leave.
At LSCft we are developing our Peer Workforce to strengthen our lived experience expertise in our delivery of person centered care. We're serious about enabling career opportunities for our Peer Workforce by recruiting to a Senior Peer Facilitator who will join our recovery-focused Community Roots service on a fixed term secondment opportunity.
If you have the relevant experience of working in a peer role and have accessed mental health services as a patient or carer, this may be the next step in developing your peer career with LSCft.
Working as part of a multi-professional team, you will offer mentorship support across a locality, to the Peer Facilitators employed in our inpatient services, whilst supporting our workforce and service users in their personal recovery journeys.
This role is offered as a fixed term secondment to cover maternity leave and offers Peer Facilitators the opportunity to train and experience as a Senior Peer Facilitator.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Good level of secondary education for Maths and English at GCSE or equivalent level Commitment to work towards NVQ3 in health and social care
Knowledge
Essential
Personal lived experience of recovery from mental health problems
Experience
Essential
Experience of being in a peer support role
Personal
Essential
Commitmentto Putting recovery values and principles into practice Belief that people can and do recover-
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