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Job overview

As part of community mental health transformation we are seeking to develop the community rehabilitation pathway across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust with a particular focus on individuals with treatment resistant psychosis and frequent admissions or long stays in inpatient units locally, and out of county, as well as individuals with 24 hour support whose placements are at risk of breaking down.

This newly established team will seek to build links between internal services, VCSE (voluntary, community or social enterprise) organisations and existing/new care providers to ensure a multi-agency, collaborative and recovery-oriented approach to complex rehabilitation. This will include creating a shared ethos and goals and a sense of hope and optimism to deliver individualised and person-centred care to promote independence and integration within the local community.

This is a fixed term post until 31st March 2025.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Peer Support Worker role are:

• To communicate with a variety of people on a range of matters and keep accurate and complete records consistent with the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• To act as a specialist resource within the service, by offering a unique perspective to service users. To act as an expert on recovery resources.
• To share ideas about ways of achieving recovery goals.
• To co-facilitate group therapy, support and psycho-education groups in various settings within the community as deemed clinically appropriate.
• To promote opportunities for people with lived experience to raise awareness and promote understanding.
• Attend Peer Support Group meetings.
• Support individuals and their families from a holistic perspective.
• Identify risk and ensure appropriate risk assessments are carried out, and comply with Health and Safety requirements.
• To attend and actively participate in support and supervision meetings and other meetings as agreed.
• To maintain good communication with colleagues within Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust, peer mentors, partner organisations and external agencies.
• Work closely with Trust social inclusion team, help lead on quarterly expert by lived experience forums.

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 organisations 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.