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Transitional Peer Support Worker

An exciting and substantive opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Transitional Peer Support Worker to work across the Chichester and Bognor Assessment and Treatment Services. 

The service is looking to appoint somebody who is highly motivated, enthusiastic, creative, flexible, resourceful and passionate about what they do. This will be a rewarding and busy role where initiative and the ability to work autonomously and independently is required.

We are looking for someone to work alongside our Band 7 Acute and Community Transition Practitioner. The role will involve supporting  patients to be discharged safely back into the community with a particular focus on early discharges. You will support patients who are being discharged from the Crisis Team to the ATS and will be the link that supports that transition. You will also work intensively with patients who are on the red zone in the ATS to prevent Crisis Team admissions and Inpatient admissions.

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As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Specialist will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. Working collaboratively alongside service users, the Peer Support Specialist builds on a person's ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Peer Support Specialist  engages with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Peer Support Specialist  will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, co-produce and co-facilitate groups and increasing individual occupational performance and participation.  The role will also include supporting junior staff.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country’s leading teaching mental health trusts.   

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

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