Peer Support Worker

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated & enthusiastic individual with lived experience of receiving care from mental health services & lived experience of psychosis or lived experience of extraordinary / unusual / confusing / puzzling thoughts & perceptions. You will be a valued member of the North CMH team working alongside a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team sharing relevant personal experiences & draw on insights & skills developed through your own recovery to come alongside people using services on a one-to-one and group basis to explore people’s own goals & personalised recovery.

We will support your learning as & access an ImROC training programme to equip you for a career in peer support.

This will be a dynamic role with lots of variation & will include : -

Providing peer support to people accessing services

Understand a person’s experiences in relation to their mental health

To enable/assist/support service users to develop self-management of their condition taking an empowering approach to promote independence

Co-production is at the heart of our service and will be vital within the role of peer support worker, in terms of the development of the service.

There is a cap on this vacancy & when this is reached it will close.

To draw upon lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users to support their recovery

Supporting people in their personal recovery by helping them to identify their strengths, values and aspirations

Working with people in public places, and a range of community settings; building &maintaining safe and effective relationships

Contribute to the collaborative planning and review of Recovery Support the use of psychological strategies: active listening, problem solving and coping strategies, support for self-management, self-help & self-care

Helping service users engage with and build connections & a sense of belonging to their local communities and meaningful activities

To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of service users

To co-produce and deliver training & assist in the audit & evaluation of services provided

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is currently unable to provide sponsorship for this role. If you hold a visa which allows you to work in the UK, you are welcome to apply for this role however our policy requires you to have at least 12 months on your visa at commencement of your employment for training and operational reasons. This means that you need at least 15 months right to work in the UK at the point of application to enable employment checks to be undertaken.

In order for your application to progress, where applicable you are required to supply your share code.

The Northlands community mental health team provides support to adults living in the North of Sheffield who have complex or ongoing mental health needs.

We provide health and social care support to help aid recovery, promote independence and improve both physical and mental wellbeing.

The support we offer can be described under three broad categories, which includes care for:

Psychotic disorders

Non-psychotic disorders

Personality disorders

All of the support we provide will be based on your individual needs and you will be fully involved in deciding what will work best for you.

We will regularly review your care plan with you and anyone else you would like to be involved in your care, such as family, loved one or carer.

The Community mental health team works closely with the Trust’s Home Treatment Team who provide short-term support at home to avoid admission to hospital.

Working with service users and their families or carers:
To draw upon your lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users to support their recovery. Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships. Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships

Understand a person’s experiences in relation to their mental health

Advocating for people to be treated with dignity and respect

Acting as a Named Worker for a designated caseload to ensure service users receive a consistent approach and a named person to contact. This will involve building a working relationship and to promote an individual’s ability to manage their own needs and independence. As a named worker you will work in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary team to support the overall care and treatment plan of the individual.

Support service-user access to digital interventions/technology

To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of someone using services

Understand a person’s coping strategies and strengths and support people to use these at times of distress or difficult

To enable/assist/support service users to develop self-management of their condition taking an empowering approach to promote independence (‘doing with’ and empowering, ‘not ‘doing for’ people).

To recognise escalating informing others as appropriate.

To report untoward incidents and areas of concern as soon as they arise

Uphold principles/attitudes of anti-discriminatory views/beliefs encouraging inclusivity and challenging discriminatory attitudes / practices

Working with colleagues as part of a team:
To work collaboratively with other members of the teams and to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues

Adhering to working with the systems set and agreed within the Organisation to benefit the team process, individuals and service-users.

Co-produce therapeutic groups:
To co-produce and facilitate therapeutic groups for service users designed to support their recovery including helping build their understanding and coping skills

To assist in the audit and evaluation of groups

Co-produce staff training:
To co-produce and deliver training (with team members and other Peer Support Workers across SHSC)

Personal responsibilities:
Negotiation to working flexibly to ensure service needs are met, taking into consideration the job role and competency framework.

At all times represent trust values, uphold credibility with the team, the wider health community and with external agencies

Adhere to Trust standards of behaviour and expected performance

Administrative responsibilities:
Be responsible for maintaining up-to-date daily records

Adhering to information governance guidelines

To encourage service-users voice to be heard throughout their clinical records

Service development:
Contribute to/be involved in service development

Participate in promotion of the team and PSW to the directorate and wider trust

Be involved in recruitment processes