Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Job Summary
The role of Eating Disorders Peer Support Worker (PSW) has been developed specifically for people who have personal lived experience of being a parent/carer of a young person who has accessed Eating Disorder Services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, the Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible, and support parents/carers through their own recovery journey.
As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to parents and carers in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey as a parent or carer of a young person accessing eating disorder services. They will also work collaboratively with others to assist in improving the wellbeing of parents/carers of individuals accessing eating disorder services.
Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience of caring for a young person with recovery from an eating disorder, the Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible. Within a relationship of mutuality, they will facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
To work with the multi-disciplinary teams across both the adult and child and adolescent eating disorder service in the support of parents/carers of young people accessing eating disorder services, ensuring the needs or parents/carers are met through promoting strengths-based practice
Communication
To form professional peer-based relationships with young people, their parent(s)/carer(s) and family, communicating with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
Service Development and Delivery
To raise the profile of peer support both within CNWL, and externally, through co-delivery of presentations, workshops, and participation in Trust-wide peer related projects and audits: and information sharing as required and as agreed with the line manager.
Learning and Development
To make full use of supervision, peer support with other peer workers and other support as necessary in order to remain well and safe in the parent/carer peer support role, and in order to work with the challenges of using lived experience to support people with potentially difficult and distressing issues.
Documentation
To ensure timely and accurate recording of clinical related data and information on the electronic patient record system.
About us
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
As a core member of a busy multi-disciplinary team, the Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will carry out some generic duties. They will work alongside parents/carers of young people accessing eating disorder services on a 1:1 basis and in a group setting. The Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will also have the opportunity to co-work with other colleagues.
The Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will take a lead role in embedding recovery values within the service setting in which they work, alongside other Trust recovery champions, and act as an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations and also work alongside the Patient and Carer Involvement Team.
The Eating Disorders Parent/Carer PSW will also work with the Recovery and Wellbeing College (RWBC) in order to deliver local courses appropriate to parents/carers of young people accessing eating disorder services.
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