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Job overview

Senior Lived Experience Support Worker will actively recruit peer support workers locally and co-facilitate a range of Trust-wide learning and development opportunities, including delivery of the Lived Experience Team Preparation workshops to teams across the Trust.

You will provide individual supervision to Lived Experience Workers working within the services alongside group supervision to Lived Experience Peer Support Workers across the Trust. They will work alongside newly recruited peer support workers, taking them through our ‘Lived Experience Support Induction' and establishing their role within the multidisciplinary team.

Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience of recovery, the Lived Experience Support Workforce 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.

As an integral and highly valued team member, You will provide lived experience support and practical assistance to people using services to support them in regaining control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey. You will promote using a ‘coaching’ role to support people in identifying goals and developing personal recovery plans.

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 to direct their 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 individuals to actively participate in their personalised care plan.
• Management of Lived Experienced staff.

The post holder will be an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.

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.