Co-Production & Engagement Peer support, CAMHS - London Borough of Barnet, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Description

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.

Lead on Co-production of the service.

Lead on service evaluation and improving outcomes for young people.

Main duties of the job

The Coproduction/engagement support worker will be responsible for supporting and supervising youth board meetings, delegating tasks associated with service delivery.

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.

The Peer support will take a lead role in embedding recovery values and the principles within the service setting in which they work, alongside Trust colleagues, and act as an ambassador of Recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.

There is an expectation that the Peer support will complete a Trust Peer Induction within 3 months of commencing their role, as well as a 'Wellness at Work' plan.

The Peer is expected to be actively involved in the ongoing development of peer work across the Trust including linking with the Service User Experience & Engagement Team (SUEET) to attend Peer-specific group supervisions, as well as training and development opportunities.

About us

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Communication

Patient/Customer Care

To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with clients.

Work with clients to help them identify their own meaningful recovery and personal goals drawing on your mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.

Encourage and motivate service users to create co-produced care plans and enable clients to engage with the actions of their care plan.

Accompany service users, if appropriate, to appointments/meetings where they need additional support.

Role model recovery, self-advocacy, self-awareness and personal responsibility to inspire hope and confidence in clients using your experience of recovery.

Share/teach coping self-help, self-management techniques and tools.

Work in a strength-based way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths.

Facilitate and co-deliver psychoeducation and other recovery courses where possible

Facilitate and co-deliver recovery and peer groups where possible.

Work closely with carers/family members to enable clients to continue their recovery journey in the community and in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Connect clients to community groups and networks that enable them to participate in community activities and progress in their recovery journey.

Support service users in discharging planning and building connections and resources in the community.

Ensure notes are written accordingly into Barnet Enfield, and Haringeys RIO, within the policy of the Trust.

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.

Service Evaluation

To implement and support a culture of service evaluation across the NCL

To engage with service users in the service evaluation

To apply core IAPT principles to the use of outcome measures

Training & Development:

To participate in regular supervision with your Line Manager in accordance with good practice guidelines and Trust policy.

To participate in the Trusts annual Appraisal process.

To attend all relevant mandatory training as and when required to do so.

There is an expectation that the Peer will complete a Trust Peer Induction within 3 months of commencing their role, as well as a Wellness at Work plan.

To link with the Service User Experience & Engagement Team (SUEET) to attend Peer-specific group supervisions, as well as training and development opportunities.

To support the SUEET with developing the Peer Workforce contributing to projects as and when required.

Working conditions of the role:

Role may involve working within a ward or within the community supporting service users as outlined above.

Frequently providing support to colleagues in managing challenging service users in what can be sometimes distressing circumstances.

The post holder may be required to work flexible hours as required by service need.

The post holder may be required to work in different locations as required by service need.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

Desirable

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Desirable