Carer Lead
- NHS
- Full Time
- Whitehaven
- 37338.00 - 44962.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust's (CNTW) North Cumbria Locality. This role will be for the 24/7 Community Hope Haven based in Copeland, Cumbria. This is a unique opportunity to work as part of a new and transformative service, due to launch in January 2025.
Our aim is to transform the way mental health care is provided locally, by bringing together specialist health, social care and community services in the heart of Whitehaven in West Cumbria.
Lived experience roles are a vital part of our plan to continually improve the services that we provide. This role is aimed at people with personal lived experience of their own recovery journey, or supporting someone else, to inspire people through their own recovery path.
As this is a community-based role, you must be able to work centrally from the hub and be able to travel across the Copeland area and other Trust sites across CNTW.
Due to the 24/7 nature of the project, unsocial working hours may be required.
Main duties of the job
We understand that the carer role is vital in a person's mental health recovery. We also acknowledge how demanding this role can often be for carers. We are looking for someone who is passionate, motivated, and innovative and can be our 'Carer Lead'. The main part of the role will involve working directly with carers and families using a 'Think Family Approach'. This will include 1:1, group work and family work. Our aim is for Carer Leads to facilitate positive change for carers and families and be pivotal in developing cultural change in the wider community. There will be potential for you to deliver evidenced based intervention based on the NICE guidelines for supporting Adult Carers. All training and supervision will be provided to enable you to make the most of your skills and potential.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Hope Haven is a multi agency collaborative service which supports the community in promoting mental wellbeing, accessing support with mental health experiences and the areas that may trigger or drive mental health distress.
This post is part of a joint project with other partners including Home Group, Everyturn, iCan Wellbeing and The Well Communities, amongst others.
Job responsibilities
The other aspect of this role is to advocate for cares within the wider multidisciplinary team. The carer lead will support the team to maintain and enhance their skills around carer involvement and offer carers training where needed, with the aim of improving support for carers. It will be essential to work closely with our peer support workers to utilise their lived experience and unique perspectives. The Carer Lead will be very much a valued member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and will be part of a wider network of other carer leads across the Trust.
The role requires someone who is an excellent leader and communicator and requires good advocacy skills to represent the voice of carers and families. The role requires resilience, creativity and empathy as well as being able to forge new links with partner agencies. The role also requires working with complex family dynamics, including people experiencing domestic violence and safeguarding issues. We will support with supervision, training, and development. We welcome people from a diverse range of professions and backgrounds and also welcome people who have had experience of caring for others.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 10th December 2024
Closing date : 22nd December 2024
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Educated to Degree Level, Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Personal lived experience of mental health issues, or personal experience of caring for individual(s) who has experienced mental health issues
- Minimum of 3years experience working with non-statutory services and service user and carer groups in mental health
- Demonstrable experience in the development, coordination and delivery of training and education programmes
- Demonstrable experience in transformation and service improvement practice
- Considerable experience of wellbeing, resilience and recovery practice
- Proven experience of effective networking with a range of individuals and organisations and multiagency working
- Understanding of quality issues and the ability to effectively apply these to service developments
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Experience of and skills in working with individuals and groups presenting with mental health problems
- Ability to use own discretion and judgement for problem solving and conflict resolution
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills and ability to work with diverse groups
- Considerable experience and skills in methods of community development
- Conflict resolution skills
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Ability to manage stress and to plan and prioritise workload
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Hope Haven
Whitehaven
CA28 7JH
