Peer Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £24,008.00 to £25,553.00 per year |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24008.00 - £25553.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 May 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Epsom, KT17 4QJ |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9325-24-0430 |
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To provide one-to-one support for women in the antenatal and post-natal period, from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience as appropriate, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users To build safe, trusting relationships with service users to empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities To provide additional telephone or video support to named service users using a work phone or laptop between face-to-face meetings as agreed with individual service users and within working hours. To enable and support service users to identify, choose and develop service user-owned recovery/ wellbeing/ personal / crisis plans where they wish to do so To provide equivalent support, informally (where the service user chooses not to make use of formal, written plans), through open, non-judgemental listening and sharing of lived experience in order to validate service users experiential knowledge, empower them to make plans, decisions and choices, realise their own strengths and build positives connections and relationships From the outset of the peer support relationship, to discuss, with named service users, the time-limited nature of the peer support and in particular the opportunity to use the relationship as a means to build and strengthen the service users wider network of support and relationships To attend care planning and other formal meetings where requested by the service user To make full use of supervision, peer support with other colleagues and other support as necessary in order to maintain your own well-being and safety in the peer support role. To make full use of supervision in order to work with the challenges of using lived experience to support people with potentially difficult and distressing issues, maintaining appropriate boundaries. To liaise and work in partnership with other services within the Trust, primary care, voluntary sector and community groups locally as necessary to support named service users To make notes of date, length and type of all contacts with services users in the locally agreed format and trust policy, and additional notes of content of meetings only as agreed with the service user. To hand over issues of risk, safety and safeguarding, having explained this first to the service user, following locally agreed procedures for risk and safety management. To contribute to service development, advocating from a service user perspective. To undertake other duties as appropriate and which fall within the grade of the job.