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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with lived experience of receiving care from eating disorder services to join our team as a peer support worker. 

As a peer support worker, you will be a valued member of the South Staffordshire Outpatient Eating Disorder service working alongside a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team. You will feel able to share relevant personal experiences and draw on insights and skills developed through your own recovery to come alongside people using services on a one-to-one and group basis to explore people’s own goals and personalised recovery.

This role has an essential requirement for the individual applying to have explicit lived experience of accessing eating disorder services, we recognise that alongside this can come other challenges and adverse life experiences

Additional information - If you would like to get in touch to discuss this role further, please email [email protected] to organise a time to discuss your query.

Main duties of the job

Peer support is recognised as a key component of modern mental health and wellbeing provision. A key feature of this post is to promote individual person-centred recovery by drawing on the peer support workers own personal lived experience of mental health challenges and of accessing mental health services.

As a pivotal and highly valued member of the team, you will have a case load of identified patients delivering support on both an individual basis and by group interventions. Working in collaboration with the wider multi-disciplinary team.

You will help to promote self-determination and assist the service user to set and achieve their own unique recovery goals, recognising that each individual’s recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process. Assisting to support and encourage healthy lifestyles, build confidence, offering support, advice to help form connections within their local community resources, co-produce their care plan with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team and contribute to the overall team management of complex clinical and risk presentations.

You will champion recovery and work closely with all members of the MDT.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.