Peer Support Worker
About the role
Our Peer Support Workers provide support and recovery guidance to individuals experiencing common and severe mental health problems, using their own life experience and recovery from mental health challenges or experience as a carer, as a template.
Main aims of the post
The post holder will provide support and recovery guidance to individuals experiencing common and severe mental health problems, using their own life experience of mental distress or as a carer and recovery as a template.
Key Responsibilities
- To develop a rapport and a therapeutic relationship with service users, within a relationally focused recovery model that will be at the heart of our new approach
- To provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
- To be a fully functioning member of the Neighbourhood Team (NT), carrying a caseload alongside other multi-disciplinary team members.
- To provide an evidence-based and individualised mental health care to a clearly defined group of patients as assessed and identified by RSMHT Clinical Lead.
- Plan care in association with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and external teams working with the service user. Involve service user and where appropriate, carers in the care planning and care delivery.
- Ensuring assessment, support/care-plans and intervention is shared and agreed with relevant individuals and agencies
- To attend training in trauma informed care alongside team members and use systemic and relational ways of working with clients within a peer support role.
A key emphasis is to enable service users to assume agency in their recovery and assist them in a holistic way to better health and wellbeing globally. This therefore also means:
- To work with local service user/peer networks and cultivate local communities around them
- To support service users to gain access to resources to include benefits, welfare rights, settled housing, inclusion opportunities and health promotion.
- To ensure that the service user understands who to contact within the different agencies involved in the support plan including employment education and training, leisure and culture and faith and community engagement as indicated by individual need.
- To provide support with daily living to empower people to live independent lives.
- To support service users to recognise good physical health as well as mental health and encourage them to engage in appropriate interventions, physical activity and healthy eating.
It is anticipated that peer workers will employ their own experience to work alongside participants in an equal partnership on their journey towards independent and fulfilling lives
- Hours Part-time (18 hours per week) and Full time (35 hours per week) role available
- Salary £14.27 per hour
- Contract Fixed Term Contract until April 2026
- Annual leave per annum 25 days, pro rata
- Level of DBS check Enhanced with check of adults barred list
- Closing date 24th November 2024
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Benefits
- 1 day off on your birthday
- 1 volunteer day per year per year
- 4 personal wellbeing days plus 1 all-staff wellbeing day per year
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual leave 25 days + Bank Holidays
- Buy up to 1 week of annual leave per year
- Eligibility for blue light card
- Ongoing training relevant to your role
- Optional Credit Union membership