Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- 12 months (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-BAY701-LW
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Mount
- Town
- Accrington
- Salary
- £23,615 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Peer Facilitator
Band 2
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
Do you have experience of using mental health services and working as a peer facilitator in Early Intervention services? Would you like to use these experiences to support other people and their families receiving these services?
Can you inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals?
Are you are willing to share your own experiences with others, if so we are looking to recruit Peer Facilitators with lived experience of using mental health services to join our East Early Intervention team.
Peer Facilitators will receive support and training to enable them to carry out the day-to-day duties of the post and as employees of the Trust, will have full access to our staff health and wellbeing offer, including supervision and other occupational health services.
Personal Qualities ideal for the role:
Having an empathic understanding of a service users’ experience when admitted to a mental health inpatient unit that is supported by the following:
- Ability to encourage participation, good communication skills or willingness to develop these
- Ability to listen without bias and to objectively see both sides of an issue
- Ability to feedback information in a constructive manner
- Ability to use lived experience in a positive and appropriate way with an awareness of own personal recovery journey
The post holder will work within our East Lancashire Early Intervention Service.
Main duties of the job
Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual, and could support an individual to develop a career within the NHS.
The Peer Support Facilitator will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. The Peer Support Facilitator will come alongside a service user through their recovery journey.
Peer Support Facilitators work as part of our teams and in collaboration with other colleagues within the team. Peer Support Facilitators engage with 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 role will include 1:1 and group work and Peer Support Facilitators will support service users in developing pre-vocational skills. Pre-vocational interventions will be delivered by the Peer Support Facilitator and these will support service users to increase their confidence and work ability, develop a daily routine and engage in other opportunities that will assist with their recovery.
Peer support Facilitators draw on lived experiences to bring hope and raise aspirations to increase opportunities to access employment support, to those using services. Encourage and inspire a recovery focus amongst team colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- English language literacy and numeracy skills to the standard necessary to provide clear, understandable records
- Willingness to develop self through engaging in training and or other special interest training
- Completion of own personal recovery plan such as the Health and Wellbeing Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) and or advanced statement.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to acknowledge service users' unique experience and to support them finding their own recovery path
- Ability to effectively appraise where need to seek advice and guidance and willingness and ability to do so
- Be able to plan you days to meet the needs of the individuals and the team
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role
- Experience of using a range of self –management or recovery tools and technique.
- Experience of Peer Support role within Early intervention Services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Be able to build relationships with different people, some who may be in distress and anxious states
- Be able to react to situations when they arise in a professional, kind, compassionate way
- Able to, with support, manage stress and to plan and prioritise workload
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
- Neil Mason
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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