Peer Support Worker - Mental Health Conditions
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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 in learning 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 and delivery of courses, as well as supporting participants with their learning needs to reach their potential.
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 tailored to their personal needs and 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.
Job 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 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.
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 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 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 meets 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 support participants in developing their self-management skills while maintaining your own personal development.
12. To actively participate in Health and Wellbeing College team meetings and adopt a flexible approach to ensure that service objectives are completed efficiently.
13. To always act in a manner that promotes and supports equality, values diversity, and promotes dignity and respect.
14. To promote and model a trauma-informed care approach.
15. To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as required by the Health and Wellbeing College Manager 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 settings, including curriculum and lesson planning and delivery of teaching to adult learners.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer Name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£24,071 to £25,674 a year, pro rata.
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