Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal Peer Support Worker
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 338-6466032-24
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hawthorne Court
- Town
- Beverley
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Perinatal Peer Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Peer Support Worker to join our wider team. The role of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) has been developed for the Perinatal Mental Health Service specifically for people who have lived experience of having received secondary care mental health services.
The Peer Support Workers will be involved in the ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust, and play an active role with training in the development and co-facilitation of courses in the Recovery and Wellbeing College, which will also provide the oversight for training, development and peer supervision of all those who are employed in PSW roles. Through sharing knowledge and learning from their own experiences, Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and belief in others that recovery is possible.
If you have the belief that you can make a real difference to others in their recovery journey, and have the knowledge, communication skills and personal qualities to do this role, then please do apply.
Main duties of the job
The role will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, in order for them to regain control over their lives, and their own recovery process.
Peer Support Workers will form trusting relationships with service users that promote mutual respect and the sharing of information, which helps to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of personal valued roles and connection to location communities.
To be clear therefore, Perinatal Peer Support Workers are employed for the reason that having used Perinatal mental health services, they are able to draw upon these experiences in a positive and enlightening way to help and support others who are commencing their own journey of recovery. Peer Support Workers should inspire in others the hope and belief that recovery is possible.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Have or be willing to work towards the Peer Support Worker Training
- Willingness to undertake further training in line with the development of peer support
- Working knowledge of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental capacity Act, Social Inclusion
- Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users and recovery
Desirable criteria
- Appreciation of the community recourses within the geographical location of the post and key partners
- A recognised qualification in an area related to the service e.g. counselling, coaching, social or healthcare or equivalent technical / life skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate knowledge/experience of mental health environments
- Lived experience of Perinatal mental health services and able to reflect on their personal experience of Recovery that has followed this.
- An ability and willingness to disclose personal experience of recovery in order to influence others positively
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the health and social care service either paid or as a volunteer
- Experience of working in a team or a group environment
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Evidence of effective inter-personal communication skills
- Basic IT skills in Outlook and Word and a willingness to learn the Trust’s IT systems
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills e.g. ability to communicate their personal experience of Recovery
Desirable criteria
- Ability to motivate others
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alex Rawling
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 336837
- Additional information
Katy Morley - Service Development Lead. [email protected] 01482 336837
Mel Lowe - Perinatal Peer Support Worker. [email protected] 01482 336837
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