Peer Support Worker
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,625.00 to £25,674.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24625.00 - £25674.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | Prescot, L355DR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-25-0714 |
Summary
Duties & Responsibilities:To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users.To help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on your mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in peers.To share and promote coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.To support service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk.To facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities, in order to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles and positive identity.To accompany service users to appointments/meetings of their choice and perform a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery goals.Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behaviour towards other multi-disciplinary team members, service users and carers.Have a focus on the rights of service users at all times.Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.Uses own initiative, personal experience and job-related training in deciding on the approach and interventions required when working with a service user in delivering peer support, although supervision is available.Attend multi-disciplinary team meetings to promote the use of self-directed recovery tools.Attend clinical review meetings to feedback progress on recovery goals.To raise awareness of recovery language with all staff and partners by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.Support other members of the multi-disciplinary team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required.To provide a consultation point for colleagues and agencies regarding service user matters and the trusts values.Attend local and central team meetings to ensure the voice of service user experience is central to team culture.To meet with partner agencies to seek opportunities to establish new care pathways to clinical care and wider social support.To ensure effective communications of service user matters and promote the voice of service users in trust and team communications.To share ideas about ways of achieving Recovery goals, drawing on personal experiences and a range of coping, self-help and self-management techniques.To participate in quality assurance measures, promoting uptake of friends and family tests, satisfaction questionnaires and other measures that review the effectiveness of service delivery. Providing genuine constructive feedback and support for continued improvement of the service.Actively seek advice and recommendations from service users through a range of formats and developing appropriate responses to feedback.To participate in delivering service user perspectives in response to national guidelines adopted by the service.To undertake relevant training as available.To undertake all required mandatory training.To develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD)To participate in staff meetings, management and clinical supervision and any other identified professional forums agencies as required.To participate in the induction of staff and students into the work area.To participate in the support, education and training of less experienced workers and other professional groups i.e., police, offender managers.Provide evidence to support personal development in line with the Trust Appraisal process.Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and be committed to continued development.Develop own skills and knowledge and contribute to the development of others.Work towards standards which equate to NVQ Level 3 standards.