Band 3
Main area: Community Mental Health
Grade: Band 3
Contract: 7 months (Fixed Term)
Hours: Part time - 13 hours per week
Job ref: 351-SPS1385-MS
Site: East Barn Town, Lancaster
Salary: £24,625 - £25,674 per annum pro rata (subject to confirmation)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/04/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community-based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability, and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices, and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Job overview
NL&SC SPCMHT covers a vast footprint including Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre, Lancaster, and South Cumbria. We are seeking applications from confident and enthusiastic people who are passionate about working in a perinatal service.
The role of the perinatal peer support worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery in the perinatal period. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible to the service users we work with. Peer support workers provide invaluable support to service users and their partners navigating mental health systems.
Main duties of the job
1. To participate in the development and maintenance of a quality region-wide perinatal service through effective collaboration, liaison, and prioritisation with statutory and non-statutory organisations.
2. Contribution to the building up of local care networks for mothers and their families.
3. To work as a peer support worker in partnership with service users and other professionals within the Care Programme Approach framework.
4. Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques, and experience.
5. 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.
6. Provide short-term support to vulnerable individuals, working closely with the service user and family to prioritise needs and plan actions to address identified needs.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Lived experience of Mental health issues during the Perinatal Period.
* Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
* Experience of accessing support services and an understanding of how these experiences affected you.
Knowledge
* Awareness of a range of vulnerabilities and their impact on individuals in the perinatal period.
* An understanding of perinatal mental health services.
* The ability to use initiative and take responsibility for appropriate tasks.
Experience
* Experience of following or supporting the implementation of personalised care plans.
* Experience of individual and group work.
* Experience of participation in service user involvement and consultation work.
Skills
* Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, even in challenging and complex situations.
* Experience of managing own diary closely supported by senior staff.
* Ability to communicate information in a variety of mediums.
* Awareness and adherence to professional boundaries at all times.
Work Related Circumstances
* Ability to comply with the travel requirements of the post.
* Comply with health and safety.
* Ability to work flexibly, including evenings.
* Commitment to equality and diversity.
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