Main area: Peer Led Self-Management - Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College
Grade Band: 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Short days may be considered to support health conditions. Post holder will be required to work on a Tuesday each week.)
Job ref: 327-24-1161
Employer: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: NHS Training Hub - Invista
Town: Brockworth
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 31/01/2025
Peer Support Worker - Mental Health Conditions
Band 3
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
Our application process aims to understand each candidate's knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over-reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of a mental health condition(s) to join the Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College. If you have experience of using secondary mental health services and feel that you could use your recovery to inspire and promote hope to others, we would like to hear from you.
The Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College provides peer-led health education to support people to learn self-management skills to live well with their condition and promote recovery. Our Peer Support Workers facilitate a range of both mental and physical health courses and are an integral part of co-producing the content to best meet the needs of our participants.
This role will involve the organisation, leading on the delivery of courses, and supporting participants with their learning needs to reach their potential and get the most from attending.
This post will be supported through regular supervision within our team line management structure. You will also have access to training to support your professional development.
Main duties of the job
This role will be part of the Health and Wellbeing College team. Working under the direction of the college manager, the post holder will facilitate and participate in course design, development and delivery.
The individual will safely use their own lived experience in a carefully considered way to enable participants to learn self-management skills of their own, to suit their personal needs and own recovery.
The role will require the individual to promote and engage in co-production, working alongside clinicians, Experts by Experience and health and voluntary sector staff.
The individual for this role will require excellent communication skills and will need to work in a compassionate, recovery-focused and person-centred manner. The post holder will communicate effectively with a variety of people, teams and services.
This is a permanent position, working three days a week. The role is based at the NHS Training Hub at Invista, but the individual will need to deliver courses in venues across the county.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To communicate effectively with a variety of people, teams and services to promote Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College as arranged through team meetings and individual supervision.
2. To keep accurate and up to date records, including numbers of attendance and evaluation data, in line with the Health and Wellbeing College's procedures.
3. To use telephone, text and e-mail to communicate effectively with colleagues, venues, participants, GHC teams and services etc.
4. To provide learning support and guidance to participants in a professional manner by drawing on both clinical guidance and lived experience.
5. To organise learning/course materials, and operate IT equipment e.g. computers, projectors as required.
6. To provide support and guidance in a professional manner as part of the Health and Wellbeing team to Experts by Lived Experience who are supporting our Health and Wellbeing College courses.
7. To actively participate in supervision and to reflect on, and make changes to your own practice as required.
8. To consider suggestions for improving our services alongside senior colleagues, to ensure that the college is meeting the needs of its service users.
9. To teach on courses and facilitate a group.
10. To work in a compassionate, responsive and person-centred manner.
11. To initiate the collection of data from course participation and to work alongside the Health and Wellbeing College Administrator on collating this when required.
12. To support participants to develop their self-management skills whilst maintaining your own personal development.
13. To actively participate in Health and Wellbeing College team meetings and to adopt a flexible approach to ensure that service objectives are completed efficiently and within the required timescales.
14. To always act in a manner that promotes and supports equality, values diversity and promotes dignity and respect.
15. To promote and model a trauma-informed care approach.
16. To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as required by the Health and Wellbeing College Manager and/or Lead Peer Support Worker.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Education to GCSE level or equivalent
* Knowledge of health and wellbeing issues, and training to NVQ level 3 or equivalent level of knowledge, training and experience
Experience
* Lived experience of mental health condition(s) and use of secondary mental health services.
* Knowledge and personal experience of self-management interventions, shared decision-making and goal setting.
* Experience of participation in formal or informal group education or settings, including curriculum and lesson planning and delivery of teaching to adult learners.
Working for our organisation
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
* 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
* 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
* 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisation's priority;
* 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative.
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
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.
Name: Holly Fry
Job title: Health and Wellbeing College Manager
Email address: holly.fry@ghc.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0300 4214414
Contact with the team to discuss the role and its responsibilities is highly recommended, please call or e-mail for any further details.
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