Peer Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To work with the multi-disciplinary team to deliver support to those individuals accessing the community service.
2. To assume a coaching role supporting service users in developing personal recovery plans; this can be delivered individually or in groups.
3. To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals.
4. To provide opportunities for service users to direct their own recovery process.
5. To facilitate the individual to move through and beyond the community service.
6. To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience of recovery.
7. To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.
8. To support service users to negotiate an Advanced Directive with all people involved in their care and others who provide support.
9. To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with the multi-disciplinary team.
10. To work together with the service user and where possible their carers in the drawing up of care plans encouraging and motivating service users to take an active role in their own care plan.
11. To assist individuals in managing their mental health on a day to day basis including providing support with activities of daily living such as care of self, budgeting, personal care, caring for their home and leisure activities.
12. To positively promote and support independent living for service users in the community by maintaining extensive knowledge and links with community resources and actively supporting service users to access them e.g. in relation to employment, community living and leisure.
13. To assist in the development and implementation of educational and peer facilitated support groups and activities which complement the team plan.
14. To accompany service users to appointments, therapeutic or social community-based activities as appropriate.
15. To support service users in seeking to connect/ reconnect with family, friends, significant others and in learning how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.
16. To assist service users to maintain a connection with their life outside of services.
17. To accept and respect service users personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training, (including accredited peer support worker training if not previously undertaken)

Desirable

• Accredited certificate in Life Coaching
• Accredited peer support worker training

Other

Essential

• A preparedness to work flexible hours through prior arrangement as the needs of the job dictate (e.g. some evenings and weekends)
• Ability to travel between locations using own or public transport

Experience

Essential

• Own personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges
• Own personal experience of accessing secondary mental health services
• Paid or unpaid working experience within a multidisciplinary team in health and social care
• Willing to positively share your own life experiences and personal experience of mental ill health, trauma and/or distress with service users and carers
• Experience of actively supporting individuals to identify and work towards achieving personal goals in a related social care or health setting (paid or unpaid)

Desirable

• Paid or unpaid, peer support worker experience

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Able to demonstrate understanding of intentional Peer Support
• Ability to demonstrate first person experiential knowledge of personal recovery
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of personal recovery as it may relate to others
• Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an ability to form peer relationships with service users and carers
• Effective listening skills
• Ability to communicate on all levels and to a broad scope of individuals, both internally and externally to the Trust
• Ability to consult and deliver training to other teams as appropriate

Desirable

• Basic Health and Safety awareness
• Moving and handling awareness
• Awareness of local services
• Knowledge of benefits/employment systems
• Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of mental health issues

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).