Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Holly Lodge
Town Skegness
Salary £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 01/04/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 3 peer support worker to join the Skegness Community Mental Health team. The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to patients in order for them to regain control over their healthcare, to lead meaningful lives and to develop their own unique recovery process. Through sharing from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. The post holder will work under the supervision of Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, and Recovery Practitioners, and will be managed by the Recovery Practitioner. We are a friendly, supportive and proactive team with a culture of delivering a high quality of care. The team works collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, GPs, Neighbourhood teams, Social workers, and Integrated Place-based teams. The team provides therapeutic interventions for those individuals that experience severe and enduring mental illness, offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting health, wellbeing, self-autonomy and independence.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will demonstrate effective communication skills, both written and verbal. They will be required to model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with individuals experiencing severe and enduring mental health needs. They should have the ability to share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with patients, and their families and carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner. Support patients to meet treatment goals, promote enablement to access their own communities in which to promote their emotional and social development. To liaise with the Community Psychiatric Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, and Recovery Practitioner and carry out assigned duties as a member of the multi-disciplinary mental health team. Provide direct support to individuals experiencing mental health problems to access community groups and networks that enable service users and/or carers to participate in community activities.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
* Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
* Competitive annual leave allowance
* Car leasing scheme
* Free eye tests
* Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Tracy Ward via email at Tracy.ward21@nhs.net or by telephone 01754 800200 ext 2
Person specification
Qualifications
* Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this)
* Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
* Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role.
* ImROC or Institute of Mental Health peer support worker training or ability to complete this when in post.
* Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
* Completion of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or use of similar self-management techniques - Awareness/ability of how to adapt this to make it suitable to share within the workplace.
Experience
* Lived experience of mental health issues.
* Lived experience of mental health services.
* Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.
* Experience of operating in an environment that requires confidentiality.
* Experience of accessing specialist services.
* Able to relate to a wide range of people across different organisational boundaries.
Special Requirements
* Ability to travel independently to other locations in a timely manner.
Skills & Competences
* Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
* Ability and confidence to use a computer.
* Ability to share personal story of recovery in a professional manner while working within appropriate guidelines.
* Ability to assist people to develop their own recovery plans.
* Able to relate empathically with people.
* Able to demonstrate a patient, non-judgemental, respectful and compassionate attitude.
* Able to manage conflict and support others to do so.
* Ability to support people to make the best of local resources including support networks.
* Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback.
As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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