Job summary
- Main area
- Peer Support
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am and 5pm
- Job ref
- 110-ACS063-0224-B
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Llidiard, Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £23,159 - £24,701 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Peer Support Worker (EDOS)
Band 3
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Peer Support Worker (EATING DISORDER OUTREACH SERVICE)
EDOS is a Welsh Government funded resource for South, East and West Wales CAMHS teams. It provides specialist consultation, supervision, training and treatment for the full range of eating disorder presentations in young people. The team offers multi-family group treatment and parent coaching both in a face to face context and remotely. EDOS also provides an intensive treatment day to the regional in-patient service.
EDOS is a small, cohesive, multi-disciplinary team with passion to improve treatment for young people with an eating disorder and their families. The team is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Peer Mentor to contribute to the developing work of the team. This is an important new development for EDOS and indeed for the whole of CAMHS. The expectation is that the post holder will be part of the ongoing therapeutic work of the team while adding a confident knowledge that recovery is a journey for all young people and their families.
Because this post is an addition to the current multi-disciplinary team, EDOS will coordinate support for the post holder within the wider co-production and lived experience network within CTMUHB and South Wales. However, the post holder will function as a ‘trailblazer’ which may require a level of resilience.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work with the Eating Disorder Outreach Service (EDOS) to co-produce ways of supporting young people and their families in their recovery.
Through sharing the knowledge of their own lived experience to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible for young people with an eating disorder and their families.
They will provide a wide range of therapeutic interventions alongside clinicians in EDOS to promote and support recovery.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click 'apply now' to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of Accredited Peer Support Worker Training, or Vocational/NVQ Level 3 qualification, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge, skills, training and experience
- Understanding and practical knowledge of evidence based practice within the eating disorder CAMHS context, including outcomes and research
- Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users and their families.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Lived experience of eating disorder difficulties.
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Rivett
- Job title
- Clinical Lead EDOS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 674951
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