Senior Peer Support Worker | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £30,279 - £33,116 per anum pro rata Inc HCAs |
| Oriau: | Part time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 May 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E1 5NN |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Contract |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6261518/363-TH6261518 |
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We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Senior Peer Support worker with an interest in working with communities to an innovative post in Tower Hamlets Adult Mental health Psychology Service.
Lived experience of health difficulties and using health services is essential for this role. Applicants must refer to their lived experience in their personal statement to be shortlisted.
The role will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to local communities and service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of personally valued roles and connection to local communities. The Senior Peer Support Worker will lead and develop the Peer Support Services, co-produce training and consultation with other team members, and help establish service links within the local community. The Senior PSW will work closely with team members, partner organisations and local communities to co-develop, through co-production, recovery-focused interventions that address the needs of those served.
The post holder will work in partnership with stakeholders across the health and care system, such as GPs, mental health services, service user and carer experts-by-experience, and third sector/Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
• To work as an integral and highly valued member of the Tower Hamlets Community Psychology team in co-facilitating person and community centered activities to inspire hope and recovery.
• To lead the development of the peer support offer within the Tower Hamlets Community Psychology team alongside the service lead.
• To support the understanding of peer support within the team and community partners.
• To support with the development and facilitation of community based groups and interventions.
• To support individuals in identifying personal recovery goals to improve their quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
• Deputising for Peer Support Borough Leads in relevant projects and meetings.
• Senior peer support workers provide support to peer support workers to help manage people with complex mental health issues.
• Provide guidance support and development to Band 3 Peer Support Workers including facilitating reflective practice.
• Provide training to Peer Support Workers, staff and people who use the services.
• Support the recruitment, induction and provide shadowing opportunities for new Peer Support Workers.
• They will work with the Service lead to support the continuous development of the service ensuring safe and effective practice upholding the Trust values with communities at the heart of all care delivered.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Clinical
• To support communities and service users to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with the team to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.
• To assist communities and service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals, support them to access, and participate in activities, which meet these whilst demonstrating acceptance of and respect towards their personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.
• To promote and support service users to maintain and/or develop positive relationships with those within their community.
• To develop and maintain extensive knowledge and links within local communities.
• To actively support service users to access resources in the community including acting as a peer, e.g. in relation to vocation, education and leisure. This may include attending Recovery Colleges.
• The senior peer support worker has a role in supporting the person who may otherwise struggle with health appointments by actively supporting with appointments for other services for health and wellbeing.
• To act as a role model and mentor for recovery using own experience to inspire hope in others; demonstrating wellbeing skills, sharing life experiences and lessons learned where appropriate.
• To assess and manage risk effectively whilst ensuring risk does not prevent an individual's recovery, in line with risk policies and procedures.
• To ensure any concerns regarding an individual's wellbeing, including issues of safeguarding, are raised with the team and appropriate agencies.
• To participate in the promotion of the Peer Support Worker role and the delivery of recovery focused person centred interventions within the team.
• To develop partnership working with local community organisations.
• To co-facilitate community interventions and therapeutic groups with other team members.
• To deliver training, consultation and advice in conjunction with other team members.
Communication
• o use lived experience to promote recovery and hope. To empower and enable service users and communities, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections.
• To build safe, trusting relationships with service users based on open and non-judgmental listening and sharing lived experience.
• To engage in positive, helpful relationships with service users and communities based on respect and openness that are negotiated within appropriate and transparent boundaries.
• To use appropriate tact and sensitivity when communicating with people using services, their relatives and carers.
• To be mindful of use of language so not to pathologise individuals or communities.
• To support the service user to access information on local services, health promotion, mental and physical wellbeing.
• To communicate complex and sensitive information orally and in writing to and from service users, their carers, other members of the team and partner organisations.
• To monitor the service user's wellbeing, reporting progress and areas of concern to the team (verbally and or clinical electronic systems).
• To assist people using services to understand their rights and choices, seeking advocacy services when required.
• Report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to the manager/senior clinicians immediately
Service Development and Delivery
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific service user group, peer support and mental health.
• To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.
• To be aware of, teach others and challenge issues in relation to stigma, low expectations and anti-discriminatory practice as appropriate.
• To attend team meetings as appropriate.
• To promote the role of peer support both within ELFT and externally, through co-delivery of presentations, workshops, and participation in Trust -wide peer related projects and audits: and information sharing as required and as agreed with the line manager.
• To develop a knowledge of quality improvement techniques.
• To support other Peer Support Workers within the team, through assisting with induction, training, and providing guidance and shadowing.
Learning and Development
• To participate in Trust mandatory training & development opportunities considered appropriate to the PSW's role and as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP) and training needs analysis.
• To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development review/ Appraisal.
• To engage in regular Peer Support supervision, reflective practice and training.
• To complete and regularly review in supervision a Keeping Well at Work Action Plan and consideration around reasonable adjustments.
• To maintain accurate supervision logs.
• To attend to own self-care appropriately.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024