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Peer Support Worker/Expert by Experiance | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,279 - £33,116 per annum inclusive of HCAS pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW3 5BA |
| Company: | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6496881/260-TP-730 |
Summary
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit three Peer Supporters to work in its award-winning Trauma Service.
The service is a specialist NHS psychotherapy team that provides therapeutic support to adults who have been significantly affected by traumatic events experienced at any stage of life. The people we see hv experienced multiple episodes of trauma over extended periods and find the trauma has come to dominate their lives in numerous ways, making it hard to move fwd. The service is non-diagnostic, provides a flexible and individualised approach to treatment and sees lived experience work as a vital and integral aspect of the clinical work provided.
We are looking to recruit people who have accessed the Trauma Service at the Tavistock Centre as patients to work in the service as Peer Supporters/Experts by Experience. Whilst we will consider applications that otherwise meet the relevant criteria, we will prioritise applications from people who have accessed the service in line with our developing model of peer support.
We are looking to recruit three motivated and enthusiastic peer support practitioners who are open to reflecting on, and sensitively using, their own experience of past trauma and accessing therapy to support the therapeutic journey of others. These roles will provide a unique opportunity to work alongside clinicians in supporting a wide range of individuals as well as close involvement in the ongoing development of the service.
The role will involve providing lived experience/peer support work to patients accessing the service. This may take the form of making welcome calls to people new to the service, leading a drop-in peer support space alongside another peer supporter and providing brief one-to-one support around specific problem areas. There will be opportunities for participating in and co-delivering psychoeducational groups, receiving training and supervision from clinicians in the service. The role will also involve providing consultation to clinicians from a lived experience perspective, advising on and working towards co-producing aspects of the service, as well as working closely with other Experts by Experience and our panel of current service users. We envisage lived experience work involving sharing relevant aspects of one’s own experience, promoting choice, agency, hope and purpose for our patients as well as raising awareness about local resources and opportunities that support development.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs,
The Tavistock and Portman is caring, compassionate and committed to co-creating the care and training we offer. We are passionate about the quality of our work and committed to openness, the use of evidence and the application of improvement science. We value all our staff, are concerned for their wellbeing, and seek to foster leadership, innovation and excellence in our workforce. We embrace diversity in our workforce and work to make our services and training as accessible as possible. We have made a firm commitment to being an anti-racist, anti-homophobic and anti- transphobic organisation. We work with others, in the UK and internationally, who share our values and can enable us to achieve our mission.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit three Peer Supporters to work in its award-winning Trauma Service.
Please see job description for main responsibilities an duties.
This advert closes on Friday 6 Sep 2024