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Please note, applications for this role close on Sunday 4th August. Interview dates will take place between Wed 28-Aug-24 – Mon 2-Sep-24.

We're looking to recruit a Parent and Carer Peer Support Worker to join the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Specifically this vacancy is for a position within the Autism and Learning Disability Liaison Team (ALDLT).

The Autism and Learning Disability Liaison Team is part of an exciting initiative known as the Keyworker service, that will transform the support mechanisms for children and young people with learning disabilities, autism, or both. This includes those who face multiple vulnerabilities such as looked after and adopted children, and children and young people in transition between services.

The team also supports children and young people who are inpatients, or at risk of being admitted to a mental health hospital as well as placement breakdown. You will have an allocation of parents and carers where their children/young people are accessing the ALDLT, their own caseload, usually offering support within a more structured approach.

To be eligible for this role you must have experience as a parent/carer of a child with autism/learning difficulties who has been supported by mental health services.

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Does the candidate require a drivers licence: yes

Oxford Health offer the Peer Support Training programme as a nationally recognised accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship (fully funded by Oxford Health).

The Peer Worker Apprenticeship is completed over a period of 15-19 months depending on whether a Peer Support Worker works part time or full time (22.5-37.5 hours).

Eligibility criteria to enrol on the Apprenticeship includes having GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English qualifications. You will be expected to provide evidence of these qualifications. If you do not have these qualifications, we would still welcome your application for consideration, but you would need to complete The Trust’s functional skills courses on Maths and/or English whilst in the role before enrolling on the Apprenticeship. All new Peer Support Workers will be provided with training for the role and support from a tutor and supervisor within their working hours.

Lived experience:

• Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatient’s by helping them to identify and build their own support network
• To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services
• Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users’ feelings
• To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
• Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health.
• To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
• To have the individual service user’s needs always at the forefront of the PSW’s practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice
• To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach.