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Please note, applications for this role close on Sunday 4th August. Interview dates will take place between Tuesday 27^th August – Thursday 5^th September 2024.

Sapphire ward is an acute male inpatient ward with capacity to accommodate, assess and treat up to 20 men between the ages of 18-65, who are experiencing organic or functional mental health challenges.

We aim to give patients the best possible care on a 24-hour basis, with our successful Peer Support Worker able to work hours within the typical 9-5 timeframe if preferred. The Peer Support Worker will use their lived experience of mental health challenges, to provide hope to patients through sharing their mutual experiences. The Peer Support Worker will receive training to be able to offer 1:1 support upon admission, throughout the patient’s stay, and prior to discharge. They will also be involved in facilitating groups and activities and provide support and signposting to patients and their carers. They will focus on promoting patient recovery, goals for the future and supporting their return home.

This post is based in Buckinghamshire, with the successful candidate working at the Whiteleaf Centre. This is a part-time role for between 22.5 and 28.5 hours per week. Please discuss your preference of exact days and hours to be worked at interview.

We’re looking for people who are compassionate, can work well in a team, highly motivated and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be provided with training for the role and given the opportunity to complete the national recognised care certificate. 

Oxford Health offer the Peer Support Training programme as a nationally recognised accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship (fully funded by Oxford Health).

The Peer Worker Apprenticeship is completed over a period of 15-19 months depending on whether a Peer Support Worker works part time or full time.

Eligibility criteria to enrol on the Apprenticeship includes having GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English qualifications. You will be expected to provide evidence of these qualifications. If you do not have these qualifications, we would still welcome your application for consideration, but you would need to complete The Trust’s functional skills courses on Maths and/or English whilst in the role before enrolling on the Apprenticeship. All new Peer Support Workers will be provided with training for the role and support from a tutor and supervisor within their working hours.

Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatient’s by helping them to identify and build their own support network

Lived experience:

• To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services
• Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users’ feelings
• To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
• To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
• To have the individual service user’s needs always at the forefront of the PSW’s practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice.