Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-194-25-MH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Broxtowe and Hucknall LMHT- Beeston Clinic
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Peer Support Worker
Band 3
Job overview
We are looking for an innovative and motivated Peer Support Worker to join the Broxtowe and Hucknall Local Mental Health Team which covers Nottinghamshire County. The successful applicant will have lived experience of mental health difficulties and will be offered support in developing self/role via the Trust’s Peer Support Development Unit.
The Mental Health division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust comprises of three directorates; Adult Mental Health, Mental Health Services for Older People and Specialist Services. More than 2,800 dedicated staff provide vital and integral healthcare services for our patients in a variety of settings, ranging from community through to acute wards, covering a vast geographical area.
We're investing heavily in our staff, facilities and patient care. As we move into this new chapter, we need a strong, motivated and compassionate workforce to reflect our core values of Honesty, Compassion, Trust, Respect and Teamwork. There has never been a better time to join our growing team.
We have exciting opportunities across different specialities and services, with an emphasis on career development and progression. We want to help our staff reach their full potential, and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed.
Main duties of the job
Engagement with peer support workers aims to add additional opportunities for engagement with the service within the community. The value of lived experience in supporting this population of people is understood as an integral part of this service and huge value this adds to the support offered.
As a Peer Support Worker you will use your experiences to offer understanding, support in linking with appropriate services/agencies, promote choice and to inspire hope and future opportunities. The role will include, offering support to carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community by enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well-being needs, in line with support plans and facilitating engagement with mainstream services. All work will be carried out under the supervision of the Team Lead and Clinical Lead.
As a Peer Support Worker, you will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. You will be supported, and are expected, to invest in your own personal and professional development as well as supporting ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Broxtowe and Hucknall LMHT has a full time Peer Support Worker post available. Your lived experience of mental health services will be a significant part of your work, using your experiences to offer understanding, support in linking with appropriate services/agencies, promote choice and to inspire hope and future opportunities. This is all the more important for this population of service users who often have additional barriers to accessing mainstream services and experiences of stigma.
Screening/team held caseload - To support the team’s screening process for all referrals into the service. To support the team’s assessment of individuals and develop a plan of support in conjunction with the service user and the wider Multi Disciplinary Team, using lived experience as a way to support engagement.
Active engagement - Be actively involved in the assertive follow up of individuals with a range of vulnerabilities. Working with the Local Mental Health Team and other agencies such as social care, health and voluntary, charitable agencies.
Caseload - To work with team-held caseload of service users with a range of complex vulnerabilities and to ensure support plans are formulated acted upon and reviewed. To support service user engagement, the post holder will be expected to be involved in the development of collaborative support packages/support plans. They will be expected to implement, promote and evaluate safe, creative and effective support plans in collaboration with the patient’s diverse needs, their carers and other professionals.
Develop good working relationships - To effectively liaise and develop links with services in the community, to establish effective thorough care and after care pathways.
Appointed applicants will have access to robust clinical and managerial supervision and career development opportunities. The service is committed to ensuring the staff in the team are well equipped to work with the complex service users accessing the service and so training is well supported and there is a range of access to robust supervision.
Please note that this post does not meet the pay level required for a Skilled worker visa.
Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
Person specification
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Level of educational attainment to NVQ 3/AS Level or equivalent
- Mental Health related qualification i.e. Certificate in Community Mental
Training
Essential criteria
- Completion of, or willingness to complete Peer Support Worker Training
- Completion of own wellness plan (there is no expectation for this to be shared)
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake further training in line with the development of peer support and the strategic development of the personality disorder hub. To support the delivery of the Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF) Awareness Training/ and to support the delivery of certain training packages provided by the PD Hub to people working with those affected by personality difficulties
Experience
Essential criteria
- Lived experience of mental distress and recovery
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role
Desirable criteria
- Experience of training, teaching, coaching/mentoring others
- Experience of using a range of self-management skills / tools to support recovery
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- Lived experience of Personality Disorder
- Experience of using a range of self management or recovery tools and techniques
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
- Experience of being supported by a community mental health team
- Experience of working in a team
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to use personal experiences to support others and demonstrate empathy
- Active listening skills
- Ability to reflect on experiences and working practice personally and in group settings
- Awareness of and ability to use written, verbal and nonverbal communication skills
- Willingness to use the Trust IT systems
- Able to build inclusive relationships with a wide range of people
- Approachable appearance and behaviour
- Able to create a safe environment and use techniques to reduce anxiety and understand conflict
- Ability to maintain a home/work life balance which feels healthy
- Ability to work within a team
- Ability to work in an enabling and creative way, where the person is the expert in their own recovery
- Willingness to support people in ways which they choose to meet their recovery goals
Dispositional attributes
Essential criteria
- Positive and recovery focussed attitude to supporting others and working within teams
- Range of life experiences
- Ability to use initiative
- Reliable
- Able to work in a flexible way
- Resourceful and creative
- Good organisational skills including time management
- Supportive to other colleagues
- Able to demonstrate a patient, non-judgmental, respectful and compassionate attitude
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
- Oliver Robinson
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0115 8541271
- Additional information
For further information on peer support services within our Trust please visit- www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/peer-support or email- [email protected]
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