Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together. Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care. Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes. Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services. Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services. Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more. The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities. Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ Job overview You will be a member of the CAMHS Co-Production and Engagement Team, work to support young people's voices to be heard to improve services. Advocate the views and interest of clients, when requested, while accessing other local community and statutory services. • Use your lived experience in all appropriate situations, including to build rapports with clients and address the stigma of mental health challenges with colleagues. • Act a mentor and role model the ability to have a meaningful life for clients. • Build relationships with the local community and statutory services and connect clients to those resources. • Input client notes and progress on the Trust's electronic patient records system. • Lead on Co-production of the service. • Lead on service evaluation and improving outcomes for young people. • Through sharing the wisdom from your own lived experience, inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities to connect with their local communities. • The Peer support will work with the Coproduction/Engagement Team in line with service needs and will take a lead role in embedding coproduction practice within the service setting. Main duties of the job Peer Workforce Development • Promote the EBYE role, through the provision of information and a range of learning opportunities for the multi-disciplinary team and others across the Trust. • Promote embedding recovery values within the service and act as an ambassador of the Enablement principles with external agencies and partner organisations. • Engage in co-production activities or projects and support clients to engage in co-production within service development. • Promote recovery best practice and role model jargon and medical free language across the Trust. • Contribute to the on-going development of the Peer workforce. Working for our organisation North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy: We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis. Detailed job description and main responsibilities MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Working as part of CAMHS to improve the experience of Children & Young People presenting in mental health crisis. To facilitate service user participation within the Quality Improvement project, alongside the project leads, including recruitment, engagement of young people and families Communication To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the BPS and Trust policies and procedures. Patient/Customer Care • Role may involve working within a ward or within the community supporting service users as outlined above. • Frequently providing support to colleagues in managing challenging service users in what can be sometimes distressing circumstances. • The post holder may be required to work flexible hours as required by service need. • The post holder may be required to work in different locations as required by service need. To ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and service user experience. Person specification EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS Essential criteria Completed BEH Peer Support training or equivalent. NVQ Level IV in care or equivalent OR Previous experience working in a mental health setting as a Peer worker or similar Desirable criteria Further post graduate training in relevant area of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis. EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE Essential criteria Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities. Experience of working with children and adolescents with mental health problems. Experience of audit/research and data analysis. Desirable criteria Experience of paid work in direct care provision. Experience of co-production. Experience of using QI methodology. Experience of supporting group interventions with children and adolescents with mental health problems. SKILLS AND ABILITIES Essential criteria High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive. Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance. An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and or other disabilities. An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context. Desirable criteria Experience of audit and data systems (RIO, EXCEL, SPSS) High standard of report writing. Experience of writing audit reports and reports within child and adolescent mental health services. PERSONAL QUALITIES Essential criteria A positive approach to working with children, adolescents and families. Ability to work as part of a team and independently. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post. OTHER REQUIREMENTS Desirable criteria Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience of group work. Willingness to work flexibly. An awareness of own strengths and limitations. References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR. If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details. Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff. Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System. Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible. All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed. Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted. By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers. Employer certification / accreditation badges Applicant requirements 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. Documents to download JD/SP (PDF, 376.6KB) JD/SP (PDF, 408.6KB) Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 525.8KB)