Htt 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

1 day ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of an MDT in a Peer Support work role.

This roles builds on the success of a Maudsley Charity funded project to embed Peer Workers into the Croydon Home Treatment Team.

Peer Support Workers will use their lived experience of mental illness to inspire hope that recovery is possible.

They will work with service users by offering emotional support, promoting social inclusion, sharing coping mechanisms and support them to navigate mental health services.

The postholder is also responsible for building and maintaining professional working relationships with clinical staff, peers, care coordinators, and others in the multi-disciplinary team, to encourage open channels of communication and actively participate in the creation of an open and safe working environment that promotes shared learning, growth and development.

Peer Support Workers will be fully supported in their role through regular 1 to 1 supervision with a dedicated Peer Support Work coordinator and team line management structure, as well as access to the SlaM wide group supervision.

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.

Main responsibilities

Based at the Croydon Home Treatment Team, working with other members of the team to undertake home visits and social inclusion.
To explain and promote the role of Peer support to other members of the MDT and new staff
To use lived experience to inspire hope that change is possible, sharing lived experience safely and effectively
To use a number of agreed recovery tools that are personcentred in a flexible way to support the service users.
Communicates with patients/clients and carers, using empathy and reassurance and where there are barriers to understanding
To support the service users to understand the role of mental health services and how they can support their treatment alongside other community resources.
To be able to signpost to community and/or online resources and access appropriate social care resources.
To take part in regular one to one supervision with senior staff and peer mentoring at SLAM
To take part in group supervision for peer workers at SLAM
Organise own workload, under supervision of Advanced Practitioner