Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Orchards, 1A Ashley Close, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8EH
Town: Hemel Hempstead
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,258 max £2,122)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Lived Experience Support Worker
Band 4
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part in our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished, you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Lived Experience Support Workers will be part of the team and support people accessing the right intervention/support as part of their recovery journey, based on the person’s individualised care and support plan.
As an integral and highly valued team member, the Peer Support Worker will provide peer support and practical assistance to service users to support them in regaining control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey.
Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience of recovery, the Peer Support Worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, they facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Main duties of the job
To support people who are experiencing mental health challenges to:
1. Maintain and develop their independence.
2. Build life skills, confidence, resilience and self-esteem.
3. Build social networks and reduce isolation.
4. Engage in peer support sessions and offer holistic support, advice, information, and if necessary, onward referral to other support.
5. Find opportunities for them to direct their own recovery through self-management and choice.
6. Access to services and support.
7. Encourage positive choice-making.
8. Work with the service user and, where appropriate, their carers/another meaningful person in developing their own personalised care plan.
9. Encourage and motivate them to take an active role in their own care plan.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will use your personal recovery with individuals using the service in 1:1 or group support. You will:
* Model and mentor recovery and demonstrate coping skills.
* Embed a person-centred and recovery-orientated approach in all aspects of the work.
* Inspire hope and share life experiences and lessons learnt.
* Contribute to peer support activities, including 1:1 and groups;
* Ensure that the safety and wellbeing of each person using the service is monitored and reviewed regularly.
* Contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation, and review of support.
* Report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to the line manager.
* Report any safeguarding concerns to the line manager.
* Attend the appropriate team meetings.
* Attend both managerial and lived experience supervision.
* Attend reflective/consultation with team members.
For a more in-depth Job and Person Specification please read the attached before applying.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Good educational qualifications up to GCSE standard or equivalent
* Educated to NVQ Level 4 or Equivalent Qualification
Experience
* Own personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges
* Willing to positively share your own life experiences, and personal experience of mental ill health challenges with people and carers using the service
Skills
* Developed personal plans for managing own recovery
* An ability to be non-judgemental
* Ability to support someone in their recovery and not to ‘rescue’
* Sensitive understanding of diversity issues and an ability to promote anti-discriminatory practice/equal opportunities
* Ability to demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience
* Able to tell your story succinctly and in a meaningful way.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”. This year, our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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