Eaglestone West, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
MK6
Have you experienced your own mental health challenges and want to help other people overcome theirs? Then join Chadwick Lodge as a Peer Support Worker where you will use your empathy informed by your own experiences to support service users who currently have mental health needs.
As a Peer Support Worker, you will model the recovery principles together with personal responsibility, self-awareness and self-care whilst undertaking the duties of the role. Working 37.5 hours a week you will offer a combination of group and one to one work, promote the implementation of cultural and structural changes and facilitate formal and informal learning.
What you will be doing as a Peer Support Worker:
* Drawing on lived experience of mental health challenges and/or the Criminal Justice System/Forensic services to provide emotional and practical support to service users and promote their recovery.
* Supporting service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services.
* Using active listening skills to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service user's feelings.
* Building relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality, facilitating regular and practical support (one-to-one and group-based).
* Where appropriate, challenging discrimination to reduce the stigma of mental ill health.
* Positively promoting independent living through role-modelling individual recovery journeys.
* Keeping the individual service user's needs at the forefront of practice and using the skills from Peer Support Training to underpin their practice.
* Building rapport with service users while maintaining professional boundaries.
* Using an evidence-based approach informed by the service user's experience and knowledge.
To be successful in this role you will need:
* The ability to offer specialist support using personal experience of recovery.
* Experience in a supportive and enabling role.
* A strong commitment to the Recovery principles.
* Motivation to support people with complex needs and a history of trauma/adverse experiences.
* Demonstration of the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality and professional boundaries.
* Knowledge of the core principles that underpin Peer Support.
* Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
* The ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
* The ability to prioritise effectively.
* Ability to use Elysium IT systems and other relevant computer packages.
* Commitment to continuous development of job-related knowledge and skills, including essential IT skills.
Where you will be working:
Location: Chadwick Drive (off Saxon Street), Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5LS
You will be working at Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View, a medium and low secure services providing specialist treatment programmes for service users detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) with a history of offending behaviour.
The service offers a broad spectrum of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, involving service users at every stage. The hospital's consultant-led multidisciplinary team has extensive clinical and research experience in forensic psychiatry. All programmes are designed to reduce the risk of re-offending and maximize the potential and enhance the quality of life of each service user.
Chadwick Lodge secure services care for service users with complex and enduring mental illness who need to achieve stability to benefit from multidisciplinary interventions, helping them move on to community settings whenever possible.
What you will get:
* Annual Salary of £25,000.
* The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays) - plus your birthday off!
* Wellbeing support and activities to help maintain a great work-life balance.
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
* Pension contribution to secure your future.
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
* Enhanced Maternity Package.
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