Senior Peer Support Worker - Peer Support Team
Job overview
NHFT have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Peer Support Worker to join the Peer Support Team. The primary focus will be to provide training, supervision and support for peer support workers, trainees, and volunteers across the Trust. Peer Support Workers actively use their lived experience to support other people and inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible.Peer support complements the support that healthcare professionals give to service users and carers and supports them to reach their recovery goals. NHFT have Peer Support Workers based in several Teams including community mental health services, specialist mental health teams and inpatient services.
The Senior Peer Support worker will work alongside the Peer Support Lead and the Recovery College team to provide a variety of peer support training courses. As a Senior Peer Support worker you will provide supervision and support for junior Peer Support Workers and work with the Peer Support Team in the continued development of the service.
Your role will include building links with external agencies to work together in a collaborative approach to develop the Peer Support Service and Peer Support Training
Main duties of the job
This is the ideal fixed term contract / secondment for an experienced service user or carer peer support worker who would like to step up into a supervisory position and take an active role in developing and training other peer support workers.
The successful candidate will:
- Provide regular, high quality individual and group supervision for peer support workers and volunteers within the trust
- Support the building of safe and trusting relationships based on shared lived experience
- Enable peers to exercise leadership, choice and control over the way in which peer support is given and received
- Contribute to developing a peer network within NHFT
- Co-design and co-deliver peer support worker training to people who wish to use their lived experience to support others
- Participate in Trust peer support training and promote the value and benefits of peer support to staff and service users
- Deliver training, both face to face and on-line depending on the needs of the trust
- Co-design and deliver other courses and training with the Recovery College and Peer Support teams
- Encourage and support student’s involvement in training courses
- Review and assess students participating in peer support worker training
- Use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate
- Support individuals and groups using a peer approach
- Be a positive role model for people overcoming mental health challenges, their families and carers
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible.This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Work experience
Essential criteria- Over 1 years as a peer support worker at NHFT (ideally 3+)
- Delivered Training, groups or workshops
- Completed ImROC peer support worker training
- Completed supervisor training (ideally ImROC PSW supervisor training)
- Worked in a supervisor role (ideally 1:1 supervision. Group supervision and mentoring acceptable)
- Attended Recovery College courses
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria- I.T. skills - evidence of Microsoft word, excel and powerpoint
- Uses recovery focused language in application form
- Presentation skills
- Experience of co-production, co-design or co-delivery
- Liaison with teams or other services to promote peer support
Important Information
Applications will be transferred to the TRAC system, by completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours.Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy.For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.
Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.