Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting a Peer Lead for Culture of Care and Inpatient Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to build upon and significantly develop the peer support provision across TEWV Inpatient Services and Lead the Lived Experience and Coproduction in our Inpatient Culture of Care Program.
The program for the implementation of the culture of care standards for mental health inpatient care sets out to support TEWV to realise the culture of care within inpatient settings everyone wants to experience - people who need this care and their families, and the staff who provide this care. The approach is trauma-informed, autism-informed and based on anti-racism. Underpinning everything is the commitment to lived experience leadership, co-production and collaboration
Main duties of the job
Lived Experience:
* Serve as the primary liaison for lived experience through the inpatient quality standards.
* Promote peer work roles and the embedding of coproduction with lived experience
Peer Leadership
* Core role within TEWV Peer Leadership team and structures
* Support the development and embedding of TEWV Peer Work roles
* Line management or peer work supervision of designated peer work roles
Co-Production:
* Lead co-production to develop and refine inpatient quality standards.
* Collaborate with clinical teams to ensure that co-produced standards are effectively integrated
Support and Advocacy:
* Provide support and mentorship to peer support workers within the Trust.
* Advocate for the needs of patients and carers at all levels of decision-making
Training and Development:
* Design and deliver training programs for staff on co-production and lived experience.
* Develop resources and tools to support the implementation of the Culture of Care program.
* Deliver Team Peer Work Preparation Training and TEWV Trauma Informed Peer Support Training
Quality Improvement:
* Participate in quality improvement projects enhancing patient safety and care quality.
* Use feedback from patients and carers to drive continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement:
* Build and maintain strong relationships with inpatient staff, patient advocacy groups and community organizations.
* Represent the Trust at regional and national forums on peer support and co-production.
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. Applications from diverse backgrounds including lived experience of the criminal justice system are welcomed and those experiences will be seen as valuable lived experience for this role.
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 and the criminal justice system 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In addition to their leadership and supervision work, the Peer Lead for Culture of Care and Inpatient Services may also be professionally accountable for their own small caseload of Peer Work (as role demands allow). Drawing on your own experience of mental health challenges, you will walk alongside others on their journey in a supportive peer relationship built on our core peer values of authenticity, relationship, validation, respect, mutuality and empowerment. You will listen non-judgementally to create safe spaces where people feel heard. You will approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity. You will recognise and value peoples strengths, diversity and expertise in themselves. You will be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors.
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
* Equivalent to Degree level experience in developing and delivering Peer Support in a community or NHS setting
* Educated to Degree level OR evidence of ability to write reports to Degree level standard
* Masters / Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject OR willingness to undertake within agreed timescale OR demonstrable Peer Work development knowledge to Masters level equivalent
* Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
* Completed Trust approved Peer Support Training
* Training in patient leadership
* Peer / Clinical Supervisory Skills course.
* Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
* Trust QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
* Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable
* Experience developing and delivering Peer Support in BOTH a community and NHS setting
* Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Course
* Completed an accredited Peer Support training course
Experience
Essential
* Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
* Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient/tertiary) mental health services
* Substantial experience of working as a peer worker or in another lived experience essential role
* Substantial experience of delivering formal peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
* Experience of peer support or user led environments outside the NHS
* Experience of recruiting peer / lived experience staff
* Substantial experience in delivering supervision or co-supervision to peer / lived experience staff
* Substantial experience in design and delivery of peer / lived experience essential Training
* Experience in preparing workplace teams for Peer Work staff or other lived experience essential work or involvement
Knowledge
Essential
* 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
* Understands importance of peer work maintaining integrity to peer support values and commitment to supporting this
* Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
Skills
Essential
* Proven ability to share elements of own life experiences, and engage compassionately with experiences of others, in a way appropriate to the role and peer relationship
* Demonstrate effective Peer leadership
* Clearly articulate the role of Peer Work Programme to a wide and diverse range of people.
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Commitment to working to and promoting TEWV Peer Support Values and to supporting service users and peer work staff groups voices to be heard
* Commitment to promoting Trauma Informed Approaches and Recovery Values
* Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
Employer details
Employer name
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Across TEWV's Inpatient Services
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DL2 2TS
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