Peer Support Worker - Boston, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Boston, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Do you have lived experience of mental health? An exciting opportunity to join Boston CMHT as a Peer Support Worker is available, you would be supported by an excellent peer support worker network within the trust and welcomed into a friendly team, with opportunities to develop

A Peer Support Worker is an integral and highly valued member of a multi-disciplinary team who draws on their own lived experience to offer emotional and practical assistance to individuals and inspire hope.

Peer Support Workers are able to facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities and who can give support and encouragement to people experiencing mental health difficulties.

MH PSWs give support, companionship and encouragement to people experiencing mental health difficulties.

A quality that makes them stand out from other staff is that MH PSWs draw directly on their own lived experiences of mental health difficulties or caring for someone else who is experiencing such difficulties.

They do not replace other roles in mental health services; rather, their skill in using their own experience to work collaboratively with someone facing similar mental health difficulties, is a unique one.

MH PSWs can offer emotional and practical support to people going through similar kinds of experiences.

To model personal responsibility, selfawareness, selfbelief, selfadvocacy and hopefulness.
To promote the concept of recovery in all work carried out, acting as an example to service users.
To act as an ambassador for the Peer Support Worker service with Trust colleagues and with external agencies and partner organisations.
To support patients with transition across services and during the discharge process which

may require analysis, comparison and suitability of service options - To identify resources, opportunities, services and activities that promotes how to improve health and recovery.

- Support the community team by assisting service users in creating a plan of community support outside of LPFT services as well as understanding advanced directives as part of their overall package of care.

- Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.

- Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users and /or carers to participate in community activities, in order to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles, positive identify and support people moving on from clinical services.

- Actively promote patient feedback by developing and utilising current patient feedback processes to further identify ways in which patient engagement can be improved.

- To liaise with the Community Psychiatric Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist / Recovery Practitioner and carry out assigned duties

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Through sharing from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to patients in order for them to regain control over their healthcare, to lead meaningful lives and to develop their own unique recovery process.

The post holder will work under the supervision of Community Psychiatric Nurses/Social Workers/Occupational Therapists, Recovery Practitioner and will be managed by the Recovery Practitioner.