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Home Treatment Team Peer Support Worker (PSW)
| Posting date: | 01 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,081.00 to £33,665.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31081.00 - £33665.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Location: | Beckenham. Kent, BR3 3BX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0749 |
Summary
Main responsibilities - Based at the Croydon Home Treatment Team, working with other members of the team to undertake home visits and social inclusion. - To explain and promote the role of Peer support to other members of the MDT and new staff. - To use lived experience to inspire hope that change is possible, sharing lived experience safely and effectively. - To use a number of agreed recovery tools that are person-centred in a flexible way to support the service users. - Communicates with patients/clients and carers, using empathy and reassurance and where there are barriers to understanding. - To support the service users to understand the role of mental health services and how they can support their treatment alongside other community resources. - To be able to signpost to community and/or online resources and access appropriate social care resources. - To take part in regular one to one supervision with senior staff and peer mentoring at SLAM. - To take part in group supervision for peer workers at SLAM. - Organise own workload, under supervision of Advanced Practitioner