Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21022
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chapel Street Clinic
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Transitional Peer Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Transitional Peer Support Worker
An exciting and substantive opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Transitional Peer Support Worker to work across the Chichester and Bognor Assessment and Treatment Services.
The service is looking to appoint somebody who is highly motivated, enthusiastic, creative, flexible, resourceful and passionate about what they do. This will be a rewarding and busy role where initiative and the ability to work autonomously and independently is required.
We are looking for someone to work alongside our Band 7 Acute and Community Transition Practitioner. The role will involve supporting patients to be discharged safely back into the community with a particular focus on early discharges. You will support patients who are being discharged from the Crisis Team to the ATS and will be the link that supports that transition. You will also work intensively with patients who are on the red zone in the ATS to prevent Crisis Team admissions and Inpatient admissions.
Main duties of the job
As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Specialist will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. Working collaboratively alongside service users, the Peer Support Specialist builds on a person's ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Peer Support Specialist engages with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Peer Support Specialist will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, co-produce and co-facilitate groups and increasing individual occupational performance and participation. The role will also include supporting junior staff.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country’s leading teaching mental health trusts.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Living and Working in West Sussex:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns. With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, there’s always somewhere new to visit
- Embrace the South Coast with a great range of historic and contemporary seaside towns
- According to the Met Office West Sussex is the sunniest county in the UK, making exploring the vast countryside all the more enjoyable
- Enjoy the city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full roles and responsibilities for this position.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification
- A recognised Peer Support qualification
- Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity in health/social care/teaching setting
- Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of working with groups/activities
- Experience of supervising others
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Managing personal mental health and recovery
- Comprehensive knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work
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
- Marylinda Gororo
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0400
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