Mental Health Peer Support Worker - IMHT Cannock
Job Description
Job summary
Have you had lived experience of mental ill health and services? Would you like to support other people who are currently experiencing mental health issues? If so, we would like to hear from you as we have an exciting opportunity to join our Integrated Mental Health Team based in Cannock & Rugeley as a Peer Support Worker.
We are an award-winning Trust and have recently been ranked by HSJ awards as top in the Midlands for Mental Health, Learning and Development and Community Trusts as Best Place to work recommended by employees. When you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential. Not only that, we will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.
Main duties of the job
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, peer support workers will have a case load of identified patients who they will work with on both an individual basis and by delivering group interventions, working in collaboration with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
This formalised peer support will allow the post holder to provide a safe space for individuals to talk and make sense of their experiences whilst sharing wisdom from their own recovery to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible.
They will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities and assist the individual to set and achieve their own unique recovery goals, and recognising that each individual's recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.
Their work may also involve providing practical assistance such as encouraging healthy lifestyles, helping individuals to build confidence, and offering information, advice and support to form connections within their local community resources.
About us
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, 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 annual 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 vaccination every year
- Attractive relocation package
- 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.
Job responsibilities
Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with us at MPFT:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
What is it like to be a Healthcare Support Worker within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
The Integrated Mental Health teams work as part of a 'neighbourhood' offering place based provision of mental health services in partnership with other local organisations. Clinicians within the IMHT will offer interventions and treatments which are concordant with NICE guidelines, and allocation within the team will be based on the needs of the service user, matching clinician skills to service user needs.
If you have any questions about the role please contact Victoria Griffiths (Neighbourhood Lead) [email protected]
Person Specification
Qualificatons and training
Essential
- Own personal experience of accessing secondary mental health services.
- English language literacy and numeracy skills to the standard necessary to provide clear, understandable records on computerised system and fulfil job description.
- Health Education England Peer Support Work training or equivalent experience and willingness to complete this
Desirable
- Other evidence of training or development relevant to working within mental health settings (statutory or voluntary).
interview
Essential
- oPrevious experience of offering formal/informal peer support to people who are navigating recovery / experiencing mental illness from a range of different backgrounds and cultures.
- oExperience of working independently and as a part of a team (paid or voluntary).
- oExperience of using own history in a boundaried approach to support others in similar situations.
Desirable
- oPrevious experience of being in a peer support role (paid or voluntary).
- oPrevious experience of being involved in involvement, engagement and co-production opportunities
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & ABILITIES
Essential
- oBasic knowledge of the principles of peer support.
- oKnowledge of recovery focused ways of working and ability to demonstrate these in practice.
- oUnderstanding the challenges which co-exist alongside common mental health illnesses
Desirable
- oA basic understanding of coproduction and community asset development.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Park House, Park Road
Cannock
WS11 1JN
