Peer Support Worker - Epsom, United Kingdom - Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Epsom, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are looking for a Peer Support worker to cover the East Surrey perinatal mental health team.

The Perinatal Mental Health Service can offer you great job satisfaction, working within an established leadership team with highly motivated colleagues where the wellbeing of families are at the heart of everything we do.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey.

Through sharing the wisdom of own lived experience, the Peer Support worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

Within a relationship of mutuality, they facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an expanding service and to help shape the future of perinatal mental health care in Surrey.

You will be joining a friendly and supportive team with extensive training opportunities along with regular supervision and reflective practice.

The ability to work across Surrey is essential and a car is required.

Please do get in touch to discuss the role and find out more.

To provide one-to-one support for women in the antenatal and post-natal period, from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user

To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience as appropriate, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users

To build safe, trusting relationships with service users to empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire.

We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population.

We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

To provide one-to-one support for women in the antenatal and post-natal period, from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user

To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience as appropriate, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users

To build safe, trusting relationships with service users to empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities

To provide additional telephone or video support to named service users - using a work phone or laptop between face-to-face meetings as agreed with individual service users and within working hours.

To enable and support service users to identify, choose and develop service user-owned recovery/ wellbeing/ personal / crisis plans where they wish to do so

To provide equivalent support, informally (where the service user chooses not to make use of formal, written plans), through open, non-judgemental listening and sharing of lived experience in order to validate service users' experiential knowledge, empower them to make plans, decisions and choices, realise their own strengths and build positives connections and relationships

From the outset of the peer support relationship, to discuss, with named service users, the time-limited nature of the peer support and in particular the opportunity to use the relationship as a means to build and strengthen the service user's wider network of support and relationships

To attend care planning and other formal meetings where requested by the service user

To make full use of supervision, peer support with other colleagues and other support as necessary in order to maintain your own well-being and safety in the peer support role.

To make full use of supervision in order to work with the challenges of