Job overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone with lived experience of the criminal justice system alongside experience of working in an explicit lived experience role to join MPFT Health and Justice services in Sussex (base in Brighton).
This role involves supporting the professional Health and Justice team to professionally supervise Peer Support Workers and to grow, develop and embed PSWs within Health and Justice Services across these areas.
Collaborating with leadership, PSWs and the local community’s is at the heart of the role. Embedding Lived Experience Practice in this newly commissioned service offers an opportunity to contribute to establishing a truly recovery-oriented service through using your own experiences.
Alongside this you will be working with a caseload of people using our service, offering hope and a safe space to open up opportunity for change. This is a unique chance to make a real difference in the lives of individuals within the criminal justice system, apply now or get in touch to hear more about the role!
Main duties of the job
• To take a transformational role in embedding peer/lived experience workers across the Trust.
• To collate and report on service provision impacts of utilising peer/lived experience workers.
• Create pathways for peer/live experience workers across the Trust including development pathways for peer/live experience workers.
• Champion peer/lived experience workers and promote a positive culture within the Trust.
• Lead on supporting teams when integrating peer/lived experience roles into their teams.
• To identify, record and raise peer/lived experience integration issues and drive forward improvements.
• Ensure peer/lived experience workers are heard and experiences are acted upon to ensure continuing improvement.
• Identify external drivers that may impact on clinical services and advise on the implementation of national and local policies relevant to peer support across health and justice teams.
• Support Professional Lead and Team Leads in the recruitment and selection of peer/lived experience support workers, taking into account workforce plans, career progression frameworks and new ways of working.
• Monitor and report on risks/incidents related to peer/lived experience roles, escalating where necessary.
Please note that this role has a requirement to travel between locations in Sussex. The post holder will be assigned the Brighton location as ‘base’ for the purposes of claiming mileage. For further information on this, do not hesitate to contact us in advance of applying.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Responsible for supporting the organisation, planning, delivery of peer support across health and justice services, in keeping with Trust operational and strategic plans and policies, ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and high-quality services for service users.
• To challenge, support and work in partnership with health and justice teams (using personal lived experience) in delivering the strategic direction of the peer recovery working approach.
• Identify and monitor peer/lived experience integration issues, bring this to the forefront for open dialogue and discussions.
• Championing peer support across the Trust, inter-organisationally and nationally.
• Provide training, presentation and representation of peer support as appropriate.
• To take responsibility to supporting peer/lived experience workers within Health and Justice Services.
• Complete key peer/lived experience support project work as agreed including initiating, researching, liaison with others, developing and delivery.
• To monitor and report on peer/lived experience support development and delivery.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
* Completed Peer Support Worker training (preferably accredited).
* Evidence of further training in relation to personal change/recovery principles.
* Willingness to undertake or completion of ImROC Peer Support training.
* Evidence of continuing professional and personal development.
Desirable criteria
* Accredited certificate in Life Coaching.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Own personal lived experience of change/recovery from criminal justice services.
* Experience of positively sharing own life experiences, and personal recovery journey, with service users, carers and others.
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others.
* Experience of working in a range of health and/or social care settings as a peer support worker.
* Experience of working with people within the criminal justice settings supporting them to access opportunities beyond criminal justice services.
* Recent experience of supervision of others (in paid or unpaid capacity).
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
* Ability to demonstrate first person experiential knowledge of change/recovery.
* Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an ability to form peer relationships with service users and carers.
* Ability to act calmly and to respond in a professional manner to distress, disturbance and unpredictability.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
* High level of written literacy and numeracy.
* IT skills including Word and PowerPoint.
* A preparedness to work flexible hours through prior arrangement as the needs of the job dictate (e.g., some evenings and weekends).
* Ability to travel between locations using own or public transport.
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