Peer Support Worker - Liaison and Diversion Service
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey Liaison and Diversion Service and Reconnect Team are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic, highly motivated Peer Support Workers with lived experience of mental health, criminal justice system, or emotional distress to join our team.
Our passionate service supports those who have come into contact with the youth and criminal justice system with a caring, compassionate, person-centered approach to vulnerability screening and assessment for all those above the age of 10. This continues through to providing high-quality community-based interventions to improve health and social care outcomes and aim to reduce future re-offending.
You will work collaboratively with your colleagues to provide much-needed lived experience peer support to those we support.
You will be based within the community, working alongside our Assertive Outreach Team and Reconnect Team. You will be required to travel during the working day, and the role is Surrey-wide. A full driving licence is required. Our Peer Support Workers work between 09:00 - 17:00.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To provide one-to-one support for people from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user. This will be focused on helping provide support with strategies to manage activities of daily living such as self-care, caring for their home, pursuit of leisure activities, and accessing healthcare.
2. To assume a 'coaching' role within the MDT, supporting vulnerable individuals to develop personal recovery and resettlement plans.
3. To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills using own experience of recovery.
4. To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience, in building safe, trusting relationships with named vulnerable persons.
5. To build safe, trusting relationships with service users to empower and enable each individual vulnerable person, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks, and wider communities.
6. To provide additional telephone support to named vulnerable individuals using a work phone and within work hours between face-to-face meetings as agreed.
7. To enable and support vulnerable individuals to identify, choose, and develop their own recovery/wellbeing/personal plans, crisis plans, and personal network maps where they wish to do so.
8. To provide equivalent support informally (where the vulnerable individual chooses not to make use of formal, written plans), through open, non-judgmental listening and sharing of lived experience in order to validate the vulnerable individual's experiential knowledge, empower them to make plans, decisions, and choices, realize their own strengths, and build positive connections and relationships.
9. From the outset of the peer support relationship, to discuss, with named vulnerable persons, the time-limited nature of the peer support and the opportunity to use the relationship as a means to build and strengthen the vulnerable individual's wider network of support and relationships.
10. To liaise and work in partnership with other services within the Trust, primary care, voluntary sector, and community groups locally as necessary to support named vulnerable persons.
11. To contribute information regarding support provided and the safety and wellbeing of people which can inform assessment, planning, implementation, and review of care with the multidisciplinary team.
12. To hand over issues of risk, safety, and safeguarding, having explained this first to the vulnerable person, following locally agreed procedures for risk and safety management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Numeracy and Literacy at a Key Stage 3 level
* Driving License suitable for use in the United Kingdom
Experience
* Lived experience of emotional distress/mental health illness/criminal justice system
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer Name
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Service Manager - Liaison and Diversion Service
£25,329 to £26,958 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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