Job Summary
You will be a member of the CAMHS Co-Production and Engagement Team, work to support young people’s voices to be heard to improve services.
Advocate the views and interest of clients, when requested, while accessing other local community and statutory services.
Use your lived experience in all appropriate situations, including to build rapports with clients and address the stigma of mental health challenges with colleagues.
Act a mentor and role model the ability to have a meaningful life for clients.
Build relationships with the local community and statutory services and connect clients to those resources.
Input client notes and progress on the Trust’s electronic patient records system.
Lead on Co-production of the service.
Lead on service evaluation and improving outcomes for young people.
Through sharing the wisdom from your own lived experience, inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities to connect with their local communities.
The Peer support will work with the Coproduction/Engagement Team in line with service needs and will take a lead role in embedding coproduction practice within the service setting.
Main duties of the job
Peer Workforce Development
Promote the EBYE role, through the provision of information and a range of learning opportunities for the multi-disciplinary team and others across the Trust.
Promote embedding recovery values within the service and act as an ambassador of the Enablement principles with external agencies and partner organisations.
Engage in co-production activities or projects and support clients to engage in co-production within service development.
Promote recovery best practice and role model jargon and medical free language across the Trust.
Contribute to the on-going development of the Peer workforce.
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Completed BEH Peer Support training or equivalent. NVQ Level IV in care or equivalent OR Previous experience working in a mental health setting as a Peer worker or similar
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant area of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities. Experience of working with children and adolescents with mental health problems. Experience of audit/research and data analysis.
Desirable
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision. Experience of co-production. Experience of using QI methodology. Experience of supporting group interventions with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive. Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance. An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and or other disabilities. An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
Desirable
- Experience of audit and data systems (RIO, EXCEL, SPSS) High standard of report writing. Experience of writing audit reports and reports within child and adolescent mental health services.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential
- A positive approach to working with children, adolescents and families. Ability to work as part of a team and independently. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience of group work. Willingness to work flexibly. An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
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.
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).
Closing Date: 24 April 2025
