Job summary
Do you have lived experience of mental health difficulties in adolescence? Do you want to use your lived experience of recovery to help others?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate individual with this lived experience to join our award-winning Children and Young People (CYP) Peer Support Team, covering Grantham and surrounding areas (Stamford, Bourne) for 12 months.
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) work with children and young people (CYP), building mutual, strength-based relationships to promote hope and support CYP to meet their recovery goals. We are therefore looking for individuals who can understand and relate to the experiences of young people using mental health services, including the current issues and challenges that impact on young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing.
As the CYP Peer Support Team works across a number of our CYP mental health teams (Healthy Minds Lincolnshire, CAMHS, Mental Health Support Teams, CYP Complex Needs Service), it is important to have excellent communication skills and work creatively to help young people and families have a positive experience of our services.
Please note, applicants will need to be able to travel independently across the county without reliance on public transport.
If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Abbie Futter on 01522 535189.
Main duties of the job
Peer Support Workers provide emotional support and practical assistance to young people currently accessing CYP Services. Through sharing their own experiences of recovery, Peer Support Workers will build positive and trusting relationships, helping young people and families discover their own strengths and feel hopeful about their future.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
- Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with children, young people and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
- To support the patients engagement in services and support them to identify and meet recovery goals.
- Support young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their emotional and social development.
- Support young people who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
- Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
- Contribute to the development of peer support opportunities amongst young people open to mental health services.
- Contribute to the development of children and young persons involvement and participation
- To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW role and the wider service, including training and on-going evaluation.
- Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and local and national policy and legislation.
- Engage in a period of induction, supervision and work-related training, as required.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information at all times and ensure accurate record-keeping in accordance with Trust Policy.
- To work flexibly across the week, this may include some weekend and evening work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
- Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with children, young people and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
- To support the patients engagement in services and support them to identify and meet recovery goals.
- Support young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their emotional and social development.
- Support young people who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
- Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
- Contribute to the development of peer support opportunities amongst young people open to mental health services.
- Contribute to the development of children and young persons involvement and participation
- To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW role and the wider service, including training and on-going evaluation.
- Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and local and national policy and legislation.
- Engage in a period of induction, supervision and work-related training, as required.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information at all times and ensure accurate record-keeping in accordance with Trust Policy.
- To work flexibly across the week, this may include some weekend and evening work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory level of Secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this).
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role, and child and young person's involvement.
Desirable
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent.
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Recovery college course qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health issues
- Lived experience of accessing CAMHS and/or engaging in treatment/support from a mental health service when an adolescent
- Experience of being in a role supporting or mentoring others.
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
Desirable
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel across the county independently without the use of public transport
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory level of Secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this).
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role, and child and young person's involvement.
Desirable
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent.
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Recovery college course qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health issues
- Lived experience of accessing CAMHS and/or engaging in treatment/support from a mental health service when an adolescent
- Experience of being in a role supporting or mentoring others.
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
Desirable
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel across the county independently without the use of public transport
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.
