Peer Support Worker - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Our adult eating disorder community services is introducing peer support roles and this is an exciting opportunity to be part of this initiative.

We have two roles at Band 3, to work across both parts of our service in Day Care and Outpatients.

We are not seeking professionals but 'experts by experience' and are looking for the wealth of wisdom that comes from lived experience.

You should haveLived experience of mental health recovery in eating disorders

This role provides support for people with eating disorders during their treatment and recovery journey in the Eating Disorders Day Services team and the Outpatients team.

The role will assist people with eating disorders to establish greater control over their lives, help to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognising that an individual's recovery is a distinct and deeply personal process.

The post holder will provide practical and individual recovery-focused support to patients within the service, using their own lived experience of recovery, and role modelling to enhance the therapeutic relationship, and enable people using our services to achieve their individual recovery goals.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.

We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

There are very few organizations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.

Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations:
care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services.

Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Peer Support Workers (PSW) within our Community Adult Eating Disorders services. We are looking to recruit enthusiastic, compassionate, positive thinking and selfmotivated individuals with lived experience of mental health problems and recovery after using eating disorders.
This role has been specifically designed for people with lived experience and recovery of an eating disorder and experience of using mental health services. You will use your recovery experiences and skills to provide support to service users.
Our Peer Workers will work alongside service users and other staff, working towards people's recovery as well as maintaining independence and promoting social inclusion.
You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team working alongside mental health professionals.
Peer Support Workers will be fully supported in their role through regular 1 to 1 supervision within the team line management structure. You will also have access to training opportunities to support your professional development.
To act as a role model to service users and their partners and families to inspire hope that recovery is possible.
To share life experiences and lessons learnt as a person in recovery.
To share your own and other examples of lived experience of recovery.
To promote evidencebased interventions to service users that are known to be beneficial to maintain health and wellbeing such as sleep hygiene and stress management.
To be able to work as member of the Multi-Disciplinary team to provide the best possible options for people in the crisis phase of a mental illness
To work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths of the person.
To use a number of agreed recovery tools e.g. SMART goals in a flexible way to support the service user.
To support the service user to understand the role of statutory mental health services and how they can support their recovery alongside other community resources.
To support service users in identifying both strengths and vulnerabilities and to identify possible triggers or causes of relapse.
To support the service user to communicate this too involved mental health professionals and wider support network.
To assist with group work.
To record information in a clear and accessible way.
To promote service user involvement in all aspects of their work.
To ensure confidentiality and safe keeping of clients records.
To be able to signpost to community and/or online resources and access appropriate mainstream and specialist resources.
To be aware of, teach others and challenge issues in relation to stigma, low expectations and antidiscriminatory