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Senior Peer Support Worker - Eating Disorders Services
| Posting date: | 17 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,964 - £43,780 per annum Incl. of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2025 |
| Location: | Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6646348/334-CLI-6646348 |
Summary
A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of people with eating disorders as aSenior Peer Support Worker?
We would like to invite applications for the post of Senior Peer Support Worker. These posts will involve using your lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder to provide best practice peer support interventions and care for adults with a full range of eating disorder difficulties.
The post will be based at Maudsley Hospital. the Eating Disorders Departments includethe outpatients, day service, ETT and inpatients,
The EDOPD is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties.
As part of the Senior Peer Support Worker role, you will be supporting individuals with eating disorders across outpatients, day services & the Enhanced Treatment Team via individual and group peer support interventions, under the clinical and professional supervision of a qualified psychologist, psychotherapist or CBT therapist & other members of the MDT.
The post holder will also support Peer Support workers development in their roles via providing them regular supervision. The post holder will also contribute to the development and co-ordination of Peer Support services across the service.
We are looking for enthusiastic people to be part of our well-established and growing peer support service. The successful applicants will be engaging, approachable, motivated, committed to personal and professional development, and able to engage with people with complex mental health difficulties. They will be organised, with existing experience working with mental health care.
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spear-heading innovative practices in the treatment of eating disorders?
The Eating Disorder Unit (EDU) is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties. Outpatient treatments include guided self-help, group and individual interventions. We are the developers of MANTRA, now recommended as part of NICE 2017 guidelines for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, and of FREED (First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders).
We offer opportunities for ongoing training and collaboration with colleagues across the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences at King’s College London.
• To provide recovery-oriented input, including groupwork, to those in lived experience roles in relation to supervision, urgent care issues and referrals.
• To assist people in lived experience roles to reflect on how to provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning to their clients in the most effective way.
• To provide direct support to people in lived experience roles by attending joint visits for those service users with more complex issues.
• To support the recruitment and induction of Peer Workers within the Eating Disorder Teams.
• To support the training and development of Peer Workers and other staff groups
• To develop an effective and supportive infrastructure for the Peer Workers to offer advice and support for the managers of the Peer Workers.
• Work in partnership with key clinicians and stakeholders, to develop a robust project plan agreed by the sponsors and their leads.
• Resolve any enquiries regarding documentation and/or status of any project.
• Communicate with all levels regarding project progress.
• To be able to travel to settings across South London – arears covered, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Croydon, Greenwich, Bromley and Bexley
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Dec 2024
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of people with eating disorders as aSenior Peer Support Worker?
We would like to invite applications for the post of Senior Peer Support Worker. These posts will involve using your lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder to provide best practice peer support interventions and care for adults with a full range of eating disorder difficulties.
The post will be based at Maudsley Hospital. the Eating Disorders Departments includethe outpatients, day service, ETT and inpatients,
The EDOPD is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties.
As part of the Senior Peer Support Worker role, you will be supporting individuals with eating disorders across outpatients, day services & the Enhanced Treatment Team via individual and group peer support interventions, under the clinical and professional supervision of a qualified psychologist, psychotherapist or CBT therapist & other members of the MDT.
The post holder will also support Peer Support workers development in their roles via providing them regular supervision. The post holder will also contribute to the development and co-ordination of Peer Support services across the service.
We are looking for enthusiastic people to be part of our well-established and growing peer support service. The successful applicants will be engaging, approachable, motivated, committed to personal and professional development, and able to engage with people with complex mental health difficulties. They will be organised, with existing experience working with mental health care.
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spear-heading innovative practices in the treatment of eating disorders?
The Eating Disorder Unit (EDU) is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties. Outpatient treatments include guided self-help, group and individual interventions. We are the developers of MANTRA, now recommended as part of NICE 2017 guidelines for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, and of FREED (First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders).
We offer opportunities for ongoing training and collaboration with colleagues across the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences at King’s College London.
• To provide recovery-oriented input, including groupwork, to those in lived experience roles in relation to supervision, urgent care issues and referrals.
• To assist people in lived experience roles to reflect on how to provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning to their clients in the most effective way.
• To provide direct support to people in lived experience roles by attending joint visits for those service users with more complex issues.
• To support the recruitment and induction of Peer Workers within the Eating Disorder Teams.
• To support the training and development of Peer Workers and other staff groups
• To develop an effective and supportive infrastructure for the Peer Workers to offer advice and support for the managers of the Peer Workers.
• Work in partnership with key clinicians and stakeholders, to develop a robust project plan agreed by the sponsors and their leads.
• Resolve any enquiries regarding documentation and/or status of any project.
• Communicate with all levels regarding project progress.
• To be able to travel to settings across South London – arears covered, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Croydon, Greenwich, Bromley and Bexley
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Dec 2024