Peer Support Worker

Job summary

This is more than a job, it's a chance to make a significant difference. If you have the drive to support and uplift others, we want you on our team!

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South Shropshire Community Mental Health Service hasan exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with lived experience of receiving care in mental health services to join our service as a peer support worker.

You will be a valued member of the South Shropshire community mental health service multi-disciplinary team, using lived experience to come alongside people using services on a one-to-one and group basis to explore people's own goals and personalised recovery.

Please note that lived experience roles require applicants to have personal lived experiences of recovery relevant to the setting, e.g. mental health issues and of receiving care in the relevant services such as community teams or specialist services. Applicants who do not hold this lived experience need not apply.

Main duties of the job

• A key feature of this post is to promote individual person centred recovery by drawing on the peer support workers own personal lived experience of mental health challenges and of accessing mental health services.
• As a highly valued member of the team, peer support workers will have a case load of identified patients who they will work with on both an individual basis and by delivering group interventions, working in collaboration with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• You will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities and assist the individual to set and achieve their own unique recovery goals and recognising that each individual's recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.
• Your work may also involve providing practical assistance such as encouraging healthy lifestyles, helping individuals to build confidence, and offering information, advice and support to form connections within their local community resources.
• Peer support workers will support individual's to co-produce their care plan with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team. You will champion recovery and work closely with all members of the team to add to the quality of recovery orientated care and treatment. Peer support workers will work as an advocate to amplify the voices of those who use services to ensure that their experiences and are understood and reflected in the clinical work and ongoing development of the service.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications