Peer Support Worker | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,948 - £29,468 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Deptford, SE8 3BX |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6179869/334-NUR-6179869-FR |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the SUN team in the Lewisham Personality Disorder Service. The role is suitable for someone with lived experience of mental health difficulties,. We would provide training and supervision, individually and in the SUN team group meetings. This role is a chance to develop communication and skills working therapeutically alongside others to support patients with personality disorder and other mental health difficulties.
You would attend the SUN groups once or twice a week to assist the facilitators assist support the SUN members attending the group.
Secondly you would go every week to talk to the inpatient and community mental health teams to promote the SUN groups, and to talk to patients about the SUN project.
The SUN project (“Service User Network”) involves people attending a group once a week. People refer themselves. They do not necessarily need to be SLaM patients although many or most are. The focus is on helping the SUN members develop their coping-skills and capacity to manage crises, and the group works by group members supporting each other in thinking about how to do this. Each group is for 2.5-hours, and people generally attend once a week. The groups are held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, two are in-person at our team base and one is held online. SUN is supports people when they experiencing significant struggles in their lives.
As well as promoting SUN and attending the SUN groups, you could also be asked to be involved in things like co-facilitating patient focus groups and getting patients to complete questionnaires about their symptoms or experiences of the service.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organizations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Work alongside other staff to assist in delivering SUN groups online and in the community to:• reduce the number of crises that require urgent and unplanned responses from services;
• Improve coping skills of SUN members
• Facilitate access to other services and sources of support.
• To encourage people to take an active role in their recovery
• To promote independence
• Assist in the promotion of SUN by liaising, attending meetings, doing presentations to people who access services, staff and other organisations.
• Use own wisdom of lived experience to support the development and knowledge of people using the service.
• Take responsibility for understanding and applying professional boundaries.
• Ensure that any potential risk is being constantly assessed within a culture of positive risk taking and report concerns in line with Risk Management Policy.
• Contribute to evaluating the SUN project
• Keep up-to-date documentation and do administrative work as required by the role
• Comply with all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Undertake other relevant duties as requested.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024