The Peer Support Worker role at Elysium Healthcare's Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View services offers an opportunity to use your personal experiences of mental health challenges and/or the Criminal Justice System to provide emotional and practical support to service users, promote their recovery, and challenge the stigma of mental illness. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to help service users reduce the risk of re-offending and enhance their quality of life.
Main duties of the job
As a Peer Support Worker, you will draw on your lived experience to support service users, engage them with their care, and promote their recovery and independence. You will build rapport, offer empathy and empowerment, challenge discrimination, and role-model positive recovery journeys. The role requires strong communication skills, a commitment to the Recovery principles, and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
Job responsibilities
You will be offering peer support and will demonstrate best practice on mental health recovery and how to put it into action. As a Peer Support Worker, you will model the recovery principles together with personal responsibility, self-awareness and self-care whilst undertaking the duties of the role.
Working 37.5 hours a week you will offer a combination of group and one to one work, promote the implementation of cultural and structural changes and facilitate formal and informal learning.
What you will be doing as a Peer Support Worker:
* Drawing on lived experience of mental health challenges and/or the Criminal Justice System/Forensic services to provide emotional and practical support to service users and promote their recovery.
* Supporting service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services.
* Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening skills to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service user’s feelings.
* Building relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality, which will facilitate regular and practical support (one-to-one and group-based).
* Where appropriate, challenging discrimination to reduce the stigma of mental ill health.
* Positively promoting independent living through role-modelling individual recovery journeys.
* Having the individual service user’s needs always at the forefront of the PSW’s practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice.
* Building rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries.
* Drawing on the service user’s experience and knowledge and use an evidence-based approach.
To be successful in this role you will need:
* To have the ability to offer specialist support using their personal experience of recovery
* To have experience of being in a supportive and enabling role
* To demonstrate a strong commitment to the Recovery principles
* Motivated to support people with a range of complex needs and a history of trauma/adverse experiences to meet their goals
* Demonstrate the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality, professional boundaries and actively promote positive role modelling
* Knowledge of the core principles that underpin Peer Support
* Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
* To be able to work collaboratively as part of a team
* To be able to prioritise effectively
* Ability to use Elysium IT systems and other computer packages relevant to the role
* Be committed to continuous development of job-related knowledge and skills, including essential IT skills
What you will get:
* Annual Salary of £25,000
* The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
* Pension contribution to secure your future.
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
* Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
Person Specification
To be successful in this role, you will need to have the ability to offer specialist support using your personal experience of recovery, experience in a supportive and enabling role, a strong commitment to the Recovery principles, and knowledge of the core principles that underpin Peer Support. Good communication skills, the ability to work collaboratively, and a commitment to continuous professional development are also required.
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.
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