Do you have experience of using mental health services? Would you like to use these experiences to support other people and their families receiving these services?
Can you inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals?
Are you are willing to share your own experiences with others, if so we are looking to recruit Peer Facilitators with lived experience of using mental health services to join our Inpatient Teams.
Peer Facilitators will receive support and training to enable them to carry out the day-to-day duties of the post and as employees of the Trust, will have full access to our staff health and wellbeing offer, including supervision and other occupational health services.
Having an empathic understanding of a service users’ experience when admitted to a mental health inpatient unit that is supported by the following:
• Ability to encourage participation, good communication skills or willingness to develop these.
• Ability to listen without bias and to objectively see both sides of an issue.
• Ability to feedback information in a constructive manner.
• Ability to use lived experience in a positive and appropriate way with an awareness of own personal recovery journey.
• Open, honest, friendly and have a willingness to work as part of a team.
The post holder will work within our Older Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services at Skylark Inpatient unit, Royal Preston Hospital.
• To work primarily in direct work with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
• To help individuals to consider employment opportunities and identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals.
• To support or facilitate Patient meetings on the ward to provide service users with the opportunity to share their experience of the ward community during their inpatient stay.
• To actively, practically and creatively support an individual to progress their recovery through co-facilitating interventions on a 1:1 and group basis.
• To support the implementation of groups; i.e. job clubs and recovery college workshops to enable service users to write CV’s and create email addresses.
• To support service users in developing in other areas and skills.
• Supporting and motivating clients to deal with highly emotional circumstances in order for them to move into the community and potentially forward into paid employment.
• To undertake other duties as may be required suitable to the banding of the post.
This is an outline of the post holder’s duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
At ELCAS (East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Services) our vision is to be a centre of excellence providing high quality Child and Adolescent psychological and mental health services that exceed people’s expectations.
We have been accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Quality Network for Community CAMHS (QNCC) since 2016. In 2019 the CQC rated us as Outstanding in providing Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led services, and as Outstanding overall.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
The list of roles and responsibilities for this post are detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification - attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025