Peer Support Worker

Job summary

This is a largely digital service so Work from Home is available for a proportion of this role.

We are looking to recruit individuals that have lived experience of gambling problems to be part of our Specialist Gambling Service team to help improve the lives of our service users.

This is a new specialist service that provides evidence-based treatment to people with harmful gambling with a strong focus on using digital approaches to deliver high quality care. It is funded by NHS England and offers high quality assessment and three main treatment pathways: individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and medication for problem gambling.

This service currently operates across Hampshire and Isle of Wight with the ambition to cover several regions within the South East over the next few years. We are looking for enthusiastic, forward thinking and self-motivated people with lived experience to form an integral part of the team supporting service users.

Please note: Candidates who have significant conflicts of interest in relation to the gambling or gaming industries are not eligible to be interviewed or appointed to this post. Examples may include: working for organisations funded by these industries (directly or indirectly), holding one or more positions in organisations with close links to these industries, or having commercial vested interests in relation to these industries.

There are two part time positions available (22.5hrs pw)

Main duties of the job

Peer Support Workers are individuals with experience of using mental health services who are employed, trained and supported to use their first hand knowledge to support others. At the heart of the role is the ability to form safe and trusting relationships that is informed by the shared lived experience. The focus of the peer worker role is to enable individuals to discover and make use of his or her strengths and to create and sustain connections with their peers and wider communities.

In creating a Peer Support Worker role, the Southern Gambling Service recognises that the value and contribution of being able to speak to an individual who has been through a recovery journey. The post-holder will work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide care and support from a place of lived knowledge, experience and optimism.

If you are a good communicator that enjoys working with people within a busy team and, most importantly, are passionate about promoting and delivering quality support for our service users, then please contact us for more details or to arrange a visit: Southerngamblingservice@southernhealth.nhs.uk or call 02382 310786

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

College Keep

4-12 Terminus Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 3DT

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

College Keep

4-12 Terminus Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 3DT

Employer's website

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

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