Peer Facilitator | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

apartmentLancashire Care Foundation Trust placeBlackpool calendar_month09/10/2024

Do you have experience of using mental health services? Would you like to use these experiences to support other people and their families receiving these services?

Can you inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals?

Are you are willing to share your own experiences with others, if so we are looking to recruit Peer Facilitators with lived experience of using mental health services to join our Older Adult Inpatient Teams

Peer Facilitators will receive support and training to enable them to carry out the day-to-day duties of the post and as employees of the Trust, will have full access to our staff health and wellbeing offer, including supervision and other occupational health services.

Personal Qualities ideal for the role:
Having an empathic understanding of a service users’ experience when admitted to a mental health inpatient unit that is supported by the following:

Ability to encourage participation, good communication skills or willingness to develop these
Ability to listen without bias and to objectively see both sides of an issue
Ability to feedback information in a constructive manner
Ability to use lived experience in a positive and appropriate way with an awareness of own personal recovery journey
Open, honest, friendly and have a willingness to work as part of a team

The post holder will work within our Older Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services at The Harbour, Blackpool

Salary: Band 2

Base: Older adult wards, The Harbour

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks.

We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

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