Peer Support Worker - Homeless Team

Job summary

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We are looking for a Peer Support Worker to join our Homeless Mental Health Team on a full-time basis Monday Friday 8.30am-4.30pm.

This role is specifically to engage and support people who are homeless experiencing mental health problems, to access services available to them. As a Peer Support Worker in the Homeless team, youll be offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience particularly for those with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery. You will work alongside a very supportive team and regularly work alongside Mental Health Practitioners & Support Time & Recovery workers & Psychologists in the team.

Due to the nature of the role, the Peer Support Worker role requires someone who has lived experience of being homeless and who has received support through Secondary Care Mental Health services. You will get to meet with service users across the County both within a clinic setting and street outreach such as people who are rough sleeping, staying in temporary accommodation or people that might have just secured their own accommodation.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being, offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.

The team is an active partner within the wider multi-agency statutory & voluntary sector homeless services within Leicester City, and as such the successful applicant would be expected to help facilitate this partnership, as well as assisting to develop the service and similar partnerships across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland.

Going forward as the service develops across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland the work will involve some working in County districts which will be developed around existing staff locations.

In addition to

• Establishing supportive, positive and respectful relationships with all people you come in contact with.
• Providing peer support, maintaining professional boundaries.
• Helping people identify recovery goals themselves.
• Supporting service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
• Undertaking appropriate administrative duties for delivering effective and timely care, including updating patient records.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

OSL House,East Link, Meridian Business Park

,Leicester,LE19 1XU

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE19 1XU

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

OSL House,East Link, Meridian Business Park

,Leicester,LE19 1XU

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE19 1XU

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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