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Peer Support Worker Apprentice - Ashurst PICU Ward - Oxford
| Posting date: | 12 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £22,816.00 to £24,336.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £22816.00 - £24336.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2024 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX4 4XN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9267-24-1556 |
Summary
Please note, applications for this role close on Sunday 4th August. Interview dates will take place between Wed 28th August Mon 2nd Sep 2024 Ashurst ward is an 11 bedded male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for those who have acute or severe and enduring mental illnesses, often with co-morbidities, which require treatment which would otherwise not be able to be given in the community or acute ward environment. Ashurst Ward aim to provide the most intensive nursing care and proactive and effective treatment to promote service users to recover and return to their usual place of residence. Working on Ashurst Ward is rewarding but comes with its challenges. Those working on Ashurst Ward are expected to have skills in de-escalation, quick decision making and awareness of basic symptomatic features of illness. Ashurst is fast paced, dynamic and high in engagement and provides the opportunity to really make a difference to those under our care. The role of a peer support worker will involve building therapeutic relations with patients, co-ordinating group activities and becoming part of the multi-disciplinary team. Oxford Health offer the Peer Support Training programme as a nationally recognised accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship (fully funded by Oxford Health). The Peer Worker Apprenticeship is completed over a period of 15-19 months depending on whether a Peer Support Worker works part time or full time (22.5-37.5 hours). Eligibility criteria to enrol on the Apprenticeship includes having GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English qualifications. You will be expected to provide evidence of these qualifications. If you do not have these qualifications, we would still welcome your application for consideration, but you would need to complete The Trusts functional skills courses on Maths and/or English whilst in the role before enrolling on the Apprenticeship. All new Peer Support Workers will be provided with training for the role and support from a tutor and supervisor within their working hours. Lived experience: Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatients by helping them to identify and build their own support network To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users feelings To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health. To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys To have the individual service users needs always at the forefront of the PSWs practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach.