Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-11039-SP
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Carholme Court
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2024
Employer heading
Forensic Peer Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a peer support worker (PSW) to join our Community Forensic Service.
The role of a Peer Support Worker (PSW) within our Community Forensic Service is for individuals who have lived experience of mental health difficulties requiring access to secondary mental health services , namely forensic mental health services and/or involvement with the criminal justice system.
It is essential as part of this role the peer support worker uses their own lived experience of accessing forensic services. Peer support workers inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. As a peer support worker (PSW) you will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to patients in order for them to regain control over their health and wellbeing to lead meaningful lives and to develop their own unique recovery process.
The Community Forensic Service (CFS), work with service users to support them to live their best lives in the community. We do this by providing specialist assessments and interventions for our patient group including those within the transforming care cohort. We work with mentally disordered offenders who present a significant risk of harm to others by nature of their mental disorder, including those registered at MAPPA and those subject to conditional discharge under Part 3 of the Mental Health Act.
For further information and to discuss the role contact Paul Bates, Team Manager via email on [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of a qualified member of staff, the PSW will support the delivery of a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary community forensic service. The PSW will do this through providing emotional support to help them meet their treatment goals. Through sharing their own experience, PSW's will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible, helping service users to feel more positively about their future.
You will work under the supervision of the community Team (including Nurses, Occupational Therapist's, Social Workers, Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrists, and Assistant Practitioners) and will have access to support, training and supervision to enable development within the role.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with patients and families.
- Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with patients and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
- To support patients to meet treatment goals and enable access to the community to promote their emotional and social development.
- Support patients who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
- Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
- Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and local and national policy and legislation.
- Engage in a period of induction, supervision and work-related training, as required.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information at all times and ensure accurate record-keeping in accordance with Trust Policy.
- Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users and /or carers to participate in community activities, in order to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles, positive identify and support people moving on from clinical services.
- To work flexibly across the week, this may include some weekend and evening work.
- To work with expert peers and expert professionals, applying the principles of co-production by developing a learning environment that promotes equality and mutuality.
- To act as a connector and work collaboratively to establish and develop links with the wider peer support network both internal and external to LPFT.
- Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instill confidence in patients and staff alike.
- Share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
- Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this)
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role.
- ImROC or Institute of mental health peer support worker training or ability to complete this when in post
Desirable criteria
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Completion of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or use of similar self-management techniques. Awareness/ability of how to adapt this to make it suitable to share within the work place
- Recovery College course qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Lived experience of forensic mental health services and/or involvement with the criminal justice system
- Lived experience of mental health issues
- Lived experience of mental health services
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role
- Experience of operating in an environment that requires confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Experience of accessing specialist services
- Able to relate to a wide range of people across different organisational boundaries
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently without the use of public transport to other locations in a timely manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Paul Bates
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 421645
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