Peer Support Worker - Rotherham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Rotherham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An Exciting opportunity has arisen within the occupational therapy and education team at Wathwood Hospital for Peer Support Workers to enable lived experience and the peer perspective to be an integrated part of our work across the Hospital.

We have a strong Recovery focus and value diversity.

The role of the Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental distress.

We have two part time, permanent posts available working 22.5 hours.

Wathwood Hospital is a purpose-built, 78 bed adult, male, medium secure hospital.

Located in its own grounds and surrounded by open countryside and woods, it caters for those aged between 18 and 65 who require assessment and treatment of mental health difficulties in a secure environment.

Peer Support Workers use their experiences to offer empathy and understanding to others, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible.

You will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery from your own experience of mental health.

You will use this invaluable experience within Wathwood Hospital, a medium secure forensic hospital, the Trust and its partner organisations.

Applicants will need to understand the purpose and function of Wathwood Hospital and be able to demonstrate how their lived experience can enrich the lives of our service users with a strong focus on the eight core Principles of Peer Support and show how they can demonstrate these as a Peer Support Worker.

You will receive a comprehensive induction training programme.

Clinical and managerial supervision will be provided from Occupational Therapy staff and you will also link into a broader Peer worker network and have ongoing support from the Peer Development Team within the Trust.

We will support your development within the role with plenty of opportunity to grow the role into your own dynamic and independent way of working.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

To establish supportive relationships with people using mental health services and their loved ones, based on the core principles of peer support (mutual, reciprocal, strengths focused, safe, progressive, nondirective, recovery focused and inclusive)
To work with individuals to identify recovery goals and set long term plans
To role model personal responsibility, selfawareness and selfadvocacy.
To appropriately use your own lived experience of mental health and or trauma to inform your work.
To contribute to the Recovery College programme.
To support involvement activity at Wathwood Hospital.
To maintain recovery focussed, strengthsbased records.

Interviews to be held on Tuesday 28thMarch 2023.