Job summary
The Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health service is excited to be advertising for two Peer Support Workers to join the service. We are thrilled to have been commissioned to deliver an offer for dads and partners alongside our core offer to women/birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties. These roles will support the delivery of the dads and partners pathway, as well as providing a broader peer support offer within the service. We are looking for people with lived experience of parenting, and either personal experience of perinatal mental health difficulties, or supporting someone through them. We are actively inviting men/dads to apply for this opportunity, as well as women/mums, in order to offer peer support that feels appropriate, sensitive and inclusive to the dads, partners and service users we care for. We welcome applications from diverse communities to represent the vibrant city we serve.
This post will close once the required amount of applicants has been reached.
Main duties of the job
Please read the job description and person specification to understand the roles, and please get in touch with the service if you would like to know more about the plans for the roles and discuss your application.
About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share which we are keen to listen to and learn from.
We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to hear from you. There are ample staff benefits and support available to you when you join us.
At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the job description and person specification to understand the roles, and please get in touch with the service if you would like to know more about the plans for the roles and discuss your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the job description and person specification to understand the roles, and please get in touch with the service if you would like to know more about the plans for the roles and discuss your application.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health diagnoses and associated difficulties
- Knowledge of mental health services including treatment and support.
- To have experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.
- Knowledge of the philosophy and principles of co-production and service user and carer led recovery initiatives.
- Awareness of the impact of stigma and discrimination.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, verbal and written skills.
- Ability to draw upon your lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users, dads and partners to support their wellbeing.
Desirable
- Knowledge of perinatal mental health experiences and practice.
training and qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level in Maths and English Language, or equivalent.
- A willingness to undertake any further training as required.
Experience
Essential
- oLived experience of either: -experiencing a perinatal mental health difficulty, or -supporting someone experiencing a perinatal health difficulty
- oDirect experience of using mental health or voluntary services and ability to use this experience positively in the role and be willing and able to share one's own personal recovery to help others.
- oPersonal experience of recovery and being in a supportive and enabling role
- oExperience of being with people who use mental health services.
Desirable
- oExperience of being a parent
- oExperience of working in the health or voluntary sector and/ or partnership working.
- oExperience of working in a team or a group environment.
- oWide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
Other
Essential
- oAbility to work flexibly to meet the needs of the role, and to cope with changing situations, needs and demands and a varying timetable of work.
- oAbility to develop and maintain safe and effective therapeutic relationships.
- oWilling and able to travel within a geographical area in a timely and effective manner.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health diagnoses and associated difficulties
- Knowledge of mental health services including treatment and support.
- To have experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.
- Knowledge of the philosophy and principles of co-production and service user and carer led recovery initiatives.
- Awareness of the impact of stigma and discrimination.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, verbal and written skills.
- Ability to draw upon your lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users, dads and partners to support their wellbeing.
Desirable
- Knowledge of perinatal mental health experiences and practice.
training and qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level in Maths and English Language, or equivalent.
- A willingness to undertake any further training as required.
Experience
Essential
- oLived experience of either: -experiencing a perinatal mental health difficulty, or -supporting someone experiencing a perinatal health difficulty
- oDirect experience of using mental health or voluntary services and ability to use this experience positively in the role and be willing and able to share one's own personal recovery to help others.
- oPersonal experience of recovery and being in a supportive and enabling role
- oExperience of being with people who use mental health services.
Desirable
- oExperience of being a parent
- oExperience of working in the health or voluntary sector and/ or partnership working.
- oExperience of working in a team or a group environment.
- oWide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
Other
Essential
- oAbility to work flexibly to meet the needs of the role, and to cope with changing situations, needs and demands and a varying timetable of work.
- oAbility to develop and maintain safe and effective therapeutic relationships.
- oWilling and able to travel within a geographical area in a timely and effective manner.
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.
