Job summary
- Main area
- Lived Experience
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-PLAN-8315
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oxford House Community Mental Health Team, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA
- Town
- Bishops Stortford
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lived Experience Support Worker
Band 4
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Lived Experience Support Workers will be part of the team and support people accessing the right intervention/support as part of their recovery journey, based on the person’s individualised care and support plan.
As an integral and highly valued team member, the Peer Support Worker will provide peer support and practical assistance to service users to support them in regaining control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey.
Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience of recovery, the Peer Support Worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, they facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Main duties of the job
To support people who are experiencing mental health challenges to:
Maintain and develop their independence.
Build life skills, confidence, resilience and self-esteem.
Build social networks and reduce isolation.
Engage in peer support sessions and offer holistic support, advice, information, and if necessary, onward referral to other support.
Find opportunities for them to direct their own recovery through self-management and choice.
Access to services and support.
Encourage positive choice-making.
Work with the service user and, where appropriate, their carers/another meaningful person in developing their own personalised care plan.
Encourage and motivate them to take an active role in their own care plan.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
With a workforce of around 3,500 people and an annual income of some £330million this year, the Trust provides integrated health and social care services through a network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Norfolk. As a university NHS foundation trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire, providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research capability.
Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT following our CQC rating of Outstanding awarded to us in April 2019.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will use your personal recovery with individuals using the service in 1:1 or group support. You will
- Model and mentor recovery and demonstrate coping skills.
- Embed a person-centred and recovery-orientated approach in all aspects of the work.
- Inspire hope and share life experiences and lessons learnt.
- Be trauma-informed
- To contribute to peer support activities, including 1:1 and groups;
- To ensure that the safety and wellbeing of each person using the service is monitored and reviewed regularly.
- To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation, and review of support.
- To report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to the line manager.
- To report any safeguarding concerns to the line manager.
- To attend the appropriate team meetings
- To attend both managerial and lived experience supervision.
- To attend reflective/consultation with team members.
For a more in-depth Job and Person Specification please read the attached before applying
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good educational qualifications up to GCSE standard or equivalent
- Educated to NVQ Level 4 or Equivalent Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Own personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges
- Paid or unpaid peer support worker experience
- Willing to positively share your own life experiences, and personal experience of mental ill health challenges with people and carers using the service
Skills
Essential criteria
- Developed personal plans for managing own recovery
- An ability to be non-judgemental
- Ability to support someone in their recovery and not to ‘rescue’
- Sensitive understanding of diversity issues and an ability to promote anti-discriminatory practice/ equal opportunities
- Ability to demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience
- Able to tell your story succinctly and in a meaningful way.
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
- Kate Drew
- Job title
- Service Line Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07837 938820
- Additional information
Available 9-5pm mon-fri
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