Job summary
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting a Peer Lead for Teesside Community Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to build upon and significantly develop the peer support provision across Teesside Community Services, and will involve working with a range of services and partners.
Main duties of the job
The Peer Lead for Teesside Community Services will be a challenging and rewarding leadership role. The post holder will provide specialist peer support leadership and expertise to the development, cocreation and implementation of Peer Support across Teesside Community Services. This will involve a range of leadership input into co-producing and implementing joined-up systemwide peer support developments which may include:
Bringing peer leadership expertise to commissioning and procurement processes.
Developing and embedding internal TEWV Peer Worker roles within TEWV services in line with the TEWV Trustwide Peer Support implementation and Community Mental Health Framework: this will involve leadership work, planning, preparation of teams ready for Peer Workers to join, and the recruitment, training and supervision of Peer Workers in teams.
Scoping existing peer support provision and building collaborative networks
Engaging with partners and community organisations, service users and their families and carers.
Core role within TEWV Peer Support leadership team and structures
In addition to their leadership and supervision work, the Peer Lead for Teesside Community services may also be professionally accountable for their own small caseload of Peer Work (as role demands allow).
About us
For this role, we are looking for someone who has personal experience of mental health challenges and who has personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient/tertiary mental health services. You will have substantial experience in the development of peer support and of working in lived experience essential roles. You will have personal experience of delivering formal peer support to service users.
We value diversity and want to have a wide range of identities represented in the peer workforce. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of distress and mental health services from the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) and other diverse groups.
We also value a diversity of experiences with mental health services in the peer workforce and welcome applications from people with helpful, difficult or mixed experiences of mental health services.
Successful applicants will receive training and regular line management and peer supervision to support them in the role.
Date posted
18 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-TSA-019-25
Job locations
Roseberry Park Hospital
Middlesbrough
TS4 3AF
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Equivalent to Degree level experience in developing and delivering Peer Support in a community or NHS setting
2. Educated to Degree level OR evidence of ability to write reports to Degree level standard
3. Masters / Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject OR willingness to undertake within agreed timescale OR demonstrable Peer Work development knowledge to Masters level equivalent
4. Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
5. Completed Trust approved Peer Support Training
6. Training in patient leadership
7. Peer / Clinical Supervisory Skills course.
8. Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
9. Trust QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
10. Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable
11. Experience developing and delivering Peer Support in BOTH a community and NHS setting
12. Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Course
13. Completed an accredited Peer Support training course
Experience
Essential
14. Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
15. Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient/tertiary) mental health services
16. Substantial experience of working as a peer worker or in another lived experience essential role
17. Substantial experience of delivering formal peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
18. Experience of peer support or user led environments outside the NHS
19. Experience of recruiting peer / lived experience staff
20. Substantial experience in delivering supervision or co-supervision to peer / lived experience staff
21. Substantial experience in design and delivery of peer / lived experience essential Training
22. Experience in preparing workplace teams for Peer Work staff or other lived experience essential work or involvement
Knowledge
Essential
23. Passionate about the values of peer support and good understanding of what the role adds to an organisation and conditions needed for successful implementation of peer roles
24. Understands importance of peer work maintaining integrity to peer support values and commitment to supporting this
25. Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
26. Good understanding of Recovery Values and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice and service development
27. Specialist peer knowledge in own service area
28. Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
29. Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice.
30. Clinical Governance and its application in practice
31. Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
32. Safeguarding and its application in practice
33. Research and development methodology.
34. Understanding of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
Personal Attributes
Essential
35. Commitment to working to and promoting TEWV Peer Support Values and to supporting service users and peer work staff groups voices to be heard
36. Commitment to promoting Trauma Informed Approaches and Recovery Values
37. Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
38. Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
39. Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.
40. Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
41. Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team and wider healthcare and peer support system
42. Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently as appropriate to the band
43. Committed to continual quality and service Improvement
44. Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
45. Committed to promoting an authentic understanding of Peer Support Service and the wider trust
46. Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
47. Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision