Senior Peer Mentor

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference by sharing your lived experience and wish to join a dynamic service with lots to offer you as a Peer Mentor, then we invite your application to the role.

This role requires you to be a highly competent and dedicated individual who demonstrates both compassion and empathy to the individuals we support it is desirable to have an understanding/awareness of mental ill health (e.g. support worker), or a relevant qualification (level 3 Health & Social Care) or relevant experience.

You will manage and support a team of Peer Mentors as well as carry a caseload of your own. Good leadership qualities are required including compassion and understand when managing a team whose role includes sharing their own lived experience of mental health. You will be responsible for Case Management Supervision as well as individual supervision.

More specifically, successful applicants will need to possess and demonstrate a high level of skill in the following areas:

• Ability to demonstrate resilience when working with individuals that are experiencing varying levels of emotional distress.
• Able to adapt to change.
• Ability to provide strong and supportive leadership
• Ability to recognise the needs of your teams wellbeing
• Ability and confidence to deliver presentations in-house as well as in the community.
• Confident to deliver training to new members of the team
• A positive and solution-focused attitude.
• Good administration and IT skills.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills relating to the number of client contacts offered and clinical sessions carried out each week.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills relating to team supervisions
• Capacity to work under pressure.
• High level of enthusiasm and self-motivation.
• Ability to work and problem solve independently.
• Access to a car to travel independently.
• Ability to work at any location across Suffolk.
• Ability to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends.

We are seeking an individual with the knowledge and skills to work as part of a team and be innovative in their approach.You will need to be flexible and have the ability to cope in a highly demanding role and demonstrate a high level of organisational skill.

You will work under the direction of and be managed by the Community Service Manager.

Due to the high number of applications these posts attract, we will reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the proposed closing date.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• PSW training course or an equivalent PSW training programme
• Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health

Desirable

• Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/ experience.

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Personal lived experience of mental health difficulties and personal recovery OR Carer (indirect) lived experience supporting someone through their recovery.
• Significant experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems - minimum two years.

Desirable

• Experience of receiving care under Mental Health Services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Child Health Centre

Hospital Road

Bury St Edmunds

IP33 3ND

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)