Job summary
- Main area
- Lived Experience Support Worker
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-8470
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital Glaxo Unit
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 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
Do you have lived experience of mental health?
Would you like a job where you are able to use your lived experience?
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Lived Experience Support Worker to join our new Mental Health Urgent Care Centre.
If you have lived experience of mental health and are interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver Crisis assessment and treatment in an innovative urgent care centre environment then we would love to hear from you.
The Mental Health Urgent Care Centre will operate with an enhanced specialist multidisciplinary team, focusing on improving the experience and outcomes for service users, carers, and staff, alongside supporting acute colleagues in the system by enabling the acute hospital to operate and improve ED performance and quality of care.
The service will operate 24/7 and will be a multi-disciplinary, cross sector service that is practitioner-led and supported by social care, voluntary sector partners and the Lived Experience Workers.
For an informal chat, contact Liz Angus 07966554195
Main duties of the job
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.
In return, we can offer you:
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
- One of the UK's best pension schemes
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
Working for our organisation
We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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
For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good educational qualifications up to GCSE standard
- 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
- Developed personal plans for managing own recovery
- Experience in actively supporting individuals to identify and work towards achieving personal goals in a related social care or health setting (paid or unpaid)
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
- Liz Angus
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07966554195
- Additional information
Beth Alnutt
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