Peer support worker

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The SPCMHT aspires to provide an excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Service for the women of Lancashire and South Cumbria. We deliver a sustainable and resilient solution for women suffering from a mental illness in the perinatal period by focusing on improving outcomes for them, their infant, partners and their families.

Do you have experience of using mental health services? Would you like to use this experience to help others? An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in this exciting service. We are looking for a Band 3 Peer Support Worker.

The role of peer worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible. Peer workers provide invaluable support to service users navigating mental health systems. The successful applicant will be motivated and enthusiastic, they will have great communications skills and will be able to work with mental health professionals.

We would welcome applications from both male and female applicants and although it would be an advantage there is no requirement to have previous perinatal experience, a fully budgeted training package is available as part of your induction and planned within your Personal Development Review.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal community mental health team offering a comprehensive perinatal mental health service, to service users experiencing mental health difficulties and their families in the perinatal period.

To participate in the development and maintenance of a quality region wide perinatal service through effective collaboration, liaison and prioritisation with statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Contribution to the building up of local care networks for mothers and their family.

To work as a peer support worker in partnership with service users and other professionals' within the Care Programme Approach framework.

The role of the Peer Support worker is to help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set these objectives, drawing on your mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience. To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in peers.

The post holder will be responsible for providing short-term support to vulnerable individuals and will be responsible for working closely with the service user and family to prioritise need and plan actions to address the identified needs. This may include supporting an individual to make a referral to a specific service and support the individual to attend the initial appointment.

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.

Date posted

12 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£21,730 to £23,177 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-SPS626-EJ

Job locations

L7F9 L7847 Specialist Perinatal CMHT Central/West Lancs

Leyland

PR26 6TY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

Lived experience of Mental health issues during the Perinatal Period Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others. Experience of accessing support services and an understanding of how these experiences affected you.

Knowledge

Essential

An understanding of perinatal mental health services. Awareness of a range of vulnerabilities. An awareness of the impact of vulnerabilities on individuals in the perinatal period. Well-developed verbal and written communication skills. The ability to work as part of a team. The ability to use initiative and take responsibility for appropriate tasks. The ability to lone work and seek support as necessary. The ability to use electronic record keeping systems. To have knowledge of the cultures and religions of the communities of Lancashire and South Cumbria To demonstrate an awareness of the need to value diversity and work across cultures The ability and skill to form positive relationships, whilst maintaining professional boundaries. Support service users' own decision-making that builds on their strengths. Awareness and understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues Up to date knowledge of safeguarding or the willingness to undertake training.

Experience

Essential

Experience of Perinatal services Experience of following or supporting implementing personalised care plans. Experience of individual and group work.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

Lived experience of Mental health issues during the Perinatal Period Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others. Experience of accessing support services and an understanding of how these experiences affected you.

Knowledge

Essential

An understanding of perinatal mental health services. Awareness of a range of vulnerabilities. An awareness of the impact of vulnerabilities on individuals in the perinatal period. Well-developed verbal and written communication skills. The ability to work as part of a team. The ability to use initiative and take responsibility for appropriate tasks. The ability to lone work and seek support as necessary. The ability to use electronic record keeping systems. To have knowledge of the cultures and religions of the communities of Lancashire and South Cumbria To demonstrate an awareness of the need to value diversity and work across cultures The ability and skill to form positive relationships, whilst maintaining professional boundaries. Support service users' own decision-making that builds on their strengths. Awareness and understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues Up to date knowledge of safeguarding or the willingness to undertake training.

Experience

Essential

Experience of Perinatal services Experience of following or supporting implementing personalised care plans. Experience of individual and group work.

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).

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