NHS AfC: Band 3
Main area: Peer Support Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
Job ref: 380-EK293
Site: Laurel House, Town: Canterbury
Salary: £24,625 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/04/2025 23:59
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good.
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offers a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Practitioner (PSP) to facilitate the ongoing development of the Peer Supported Open Dialogue service (POD) within KMPT, the only stand-alone NHS Open Dialogue service in the UK.
This post offers an excellent opportunity to work in mental health services in a time of exciting change to where a more collaborative, power-balanced approach to care is sought, prioritising the voice of those at the centre of concern.
Peer Supported Open Dialogue (POD) is a community-based and integrated way of engaging with families or a person’s social network from the very start of seeking help, within 24 hours of crisis. It is based on the principles of Open Dialogue.
Main Duties of the Job
As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Practitioner (PSP) will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users to promote choice, and work with them to regain control over their lives.
This role will involve working with service users on a one-to-one basis as well as with other clinicians depending on the need. Helping to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value, and purpose, recognising that each individual's recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.
Within this position, you will be part of a dynamic team promoting POD and co-facilitating training sessions for others. Your responsibilities will involve working alongside POD-trained staff and trainees, integrating this new care model throughout KMPT and beyond.
Working for Our Organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life. We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* Provide opportunities for individual service users to direct their own recovery process, enabling them to complete their advanced care plan.
* Model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using your own experience of recovery to inspire hope.
* Assist and advise individuals in managing their own mental health on a day-to-day basis, for example, activities of daily living.
* Promote recovery by making links with community resources and supporting service users to access them.
* Facilitate and co-facilitate training of others in Peer work within the context of POD.
* Support the team in promoting the role of Peers and POD and to raise awareness of what recovery means.
* Participate in regular supervision and team meetings.
* Provide accurate and up-to-date oral/written reports on the clients’ care and outcomes of care objectives.
* Maintain confidentiality at all times in line with the Trust policy.
* Assist in providing a safe and caring environment.
* Adhere to Trust and Statutory Health & Safety requirements.
* Maintain and update training as required.
* Undertake any other duties as may be assigned or delegated from time to time by the Manager.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
* Lived experience of mental health problems, willing to positively share own life experiences.
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* BTec/City & Guilds/NVQ level 2 in health and social care OR equivalent experience.
* Car Driver with full UK driving licence.
* IMROC trained.
* Experience of working or volunteering with people with mental health problems.
* Experience of teaching or being an active part of group learning.
* Good IT skills, including WORD, Outlook and the ability to use the RiO electronic records system.
Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time.
After 5 years NHS service: 29 days full time or pro rata if part time.
After 10 years NHS service: 33 days full time or pro rata if part time.
Plus bank holidays, that’s up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff through a comprehensive Induction programme.
KMPT takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace.
KMPT is creating an environment for equal opportunities for all, where we can ALL be ourselves.
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