Peer Support Worker - Mental Health Conditions
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Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of a mental health condition(s) to join the Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College. If you have experience of using secondary mental health services and feel that you could use your recovery to inspire and promote hope to others, we would like to hear from you.
The Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College provides peer-led health education to support people to learn self-management skills to live well with their condition and promote recovery. Our Peer Support Workers teach on a range of both mental and physical health courses and are an integral part of co-producing the content to best meet the needs of our participants.
This role will involve the organisation, leading on the delivery of courses, and supporting participants with their learning needs to reach their potential.
This post will be supported through regular supervision within our team line management structure. You will also have access to training to support your professional development.
In your application for this post, please tell us about your lived experience of a mental health condition(s) and your recovery, as it's essential to the role.
Main Duties of the Job
1. This role will be part of the Health and Wellbeing College team. Working under the direction of the college manager, the post holder will facilitate and participate in course design, development, and delivery.
2. The individual will safely use their own lived experience in a carefully considered way to enable participants to learn self-management skills of their own, to suit their personal needs and own recovery.
3. The role will require the individual to promote and engage in coproduction, working alongside clinicians, Experts by Experience, and health and voluntary sector staff.
4. The individual for this role will require excellent communication skills and will need to work in a compassionate, recovery-focused and person-centred manner.
5. This is a permanent position, working three days a week. The role is based at the NHS Training Hub at Invista, but the individual will need to deliver courses in venues across the county.
Qualifications, Training & Experience Requirements
Essential
* Education to GCSE level or equivalent.
Desirable
* Knowledge of health and wellbeing issues, and training to NVQ level 3 or equivalent level of knowledge, training, and experience.
ExperienceEssential
* Lived experience of mental health condition(s) and use of secondary mental health services.
* Knowledge and personal experience of self-management interventions, shared decision-making, and goal setting.
Desirable
* Experience of participation in formal or informal group education or settings, including curriculum and lesson planning and delivery of teaching to adult learners.
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: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: NHS Training Hub - Invista, Ermin Street, Brockworth, GL3 4HP
Salary: £24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Part-time
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