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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·       To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in order to deliver support to individuals in the RDP, ARC Hounslow and the Addictions directorate, and supporting the interventions used in these services.

·       To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience, as appropriate to the peer role, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users.

·       To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate self-management skills and techniques, using own experience of recovery.

·       To assume a ‘coaching’ role supporting service users in developing personal recovery plans; this can be delivered individually or in groups.

·       To empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities.

·       To skilfully use personal experience of recovery to help motivate service users.

·       To provide opportunities for service users to direct their own recovery process.

·       To support service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.

·       To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.

·       To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with the multi-disciplinary team.

·       To work together with the service user and where possible their carers/supporters in the drawing up of care plans, encouraging and motivating service users to take an active role in their own care plan.

·       To assist individuals in managing their substance use on a day-to-day basis including providing support with activities of daily living such as care of self, budgeting, personal care, caring for their home and leisure activities.

·       To assist in the development and implementation of educational and peer facilitated support groups and activities which complement the day, individual and community programmes.

·       To accompany service users to appointments, therapeutic or social community-based activities as appropriate.

·       To respect, acknowledge and support service users as they describe and make sense of their experiences.

·       To hand over issues of risk, safety and safeguarding, having explained this first to the service user, following locally agreed procedures for risk and safety management.

·       To signpost to various resources, opportunities and activities within the Trust and in communities to promote choice and informed decision making.

·       To positively promote and support independent living for service users in the community by maintaining extensive knowledge and links with community resources and actively supporting service users to access them e.g. in relation to employment, community living and leisure.

·       To respect and support the diversity of experiences and backgrounds that people bring to the peer support relationship, enabling service users to build connections and relationships, and access resources and strengths found in the range of communities with which they identify and belong.

·       To accept and respect service users’ personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.

·       To support service users in seeking to connect/reconnect with family, friends, significant others and in learning how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.

·       To assist service users to maintain a connection with their life outside of services.

To support the team in promoting a recovery orientated environment by identifying recovery-focused activities and imparting information and education as required.