Peer Support Worker

Job summary

The Peer Support Worker role is an integral role in our new female Enhanced Care Female Unit (ECU). It is an exciting and innovative time to join Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as we embark on the opening of Audrey House on our Kingsway Hospital site in Derby.

Your role as a PSW, will be an exciting dual role, working within a multi-disciplinary team. The role will involve

• Helping to co-produce policy writing, procedures, and governance for our ECU, coupled with using your voice of lived experience of mental health, to ensure the team are aware of the imperative work you will be undertaking within the unit.
• Promoting the implementation of cultural and structural change through the provision of peer support as an integral part of acute adult inpatient mental health services
• Facilitating formal and informal learning, working with staff in clinical practice and supporting the clinical team to develop the best recovery-based practice.

The PSW role sees the introduction of lived experience into everyday practice. You will offer a combination of group and one to one work and will work within the multi-disciplinary team to support a service user's recovery journey.

The work will be face to face in a ward-based environment and will be carried out under the supervision of the Ward Manager with support from our Inpatient Peer Support Lead.

Main duties of the job

You will support the provision of high-quality patient services that are clinically safe, evidence based, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trusts' Standards.

The post will also involve working closely in collaboration with our Psychological Therapies department at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to be able to work with teams as well as on your own initiative are essential.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities