Senior 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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This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Peer Support worker to help the service in embedding lived experience and peer support interventions in the adult eating disorders community service.

If you have substantial experience in working as a peer support worker, and helping people to recover from mental well-being concerns, and if you are passionate about providing recovery interventions, we would like to hear from you.

The role provides an opportunity to work with other colleagues to introduce peer support interventions and embed the value of lived experience in the service.

You will be responsible for supervising two Band 3 Peer Support workers, and working with the multi-disciplinary team, and with people who use our service to introduce and embed this exciting cultural change in the service.

The post holder will contribute their lived experience knowledge and expertise in supporting the service to develop and embed a peer-led recovery-focused culture and interventions.

They will assist senior managers in overseeing the day to day running of peer support services across the eating disorder services to support our service users and carers through elements of their recovery journey.

They will develop and maintain partnerships, across the eating disorder services, with agencies and organisations that provide peer support to the people we work with.

Peer Support Workers will use their lived experience to inspire hope that recovery is possible and will work with staff within Eating Disorder Services to identify and access meaningful activities in the community and to create supportive networks.

As the Senior Peer Support Worker, you will work alongside the eating disorder service teams and the Peer Workers to ensure this work is embedded and supported.

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 organisations 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.

Clinical & Operational Responsibilities:

To provide recoveryoriented input, including groupwork, to those in lived experience roles in relation to supervision, urgent care issues and referrals.
To process referrals for peer support and lived experience by communicating with referrers and service users and carers to obtain information and explain the service offer.
In collaboration with service users and carers, promote plans of support to optimise recovery and health and wellbeing
To identify risk issues related to new or existing service users (via new referrals and supervision) and take action to promote safe and effective working including escalating any concerns when necessary
To assist people in lived experience roles to reflect on how to provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning to their clients in the most effective way.
To provide direct support to people in lived experience roles by attending joint visits for those service users with more complex issues.
To ensure that policies and procedures are relevant and understood by people in lived experience roles
To work directly with teams, services and other organisations in order to help them integrate peer support into their service where needed
To work alongside and support those in peer support roles to help them achieve the competencies identified within the nationalPeer Support Competency framework
To support the recruitment and induction of Peer Workers within the Eating Disorder Teams.
To support the training and development of Peer Workers and other staff groups
To develop an effective and supportive infrastructure for the Peer Workers to offer advice and support for the managers of the Peer Workers.
Work in partnership with key clinicians and stakeholders, to develop a robust project plan agreed by the sponsors and their leads.
Resolve any enquiries regarding documentation and/or status of any project.
Communicate with all levels regarding project progress.