Lived Experience Support Worker - Charlton, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Charlton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The role is part of an initiative to employ people with lived experience of psychosis with a specific focus on supporting patients in the Greenwich Mental Health community Rehabilitation and Enablement service with their recovery in mental health and encouraging independence in the community.

This is done through harnessing your own knowledge whilst valuing the experiences and views of your clients in a safe and therapeutic way.

To effectively contribute to the delivery of integrated mental and physical healthcare in and GCMHRES team using the skills and knowledge gained through having lived experience of Psychosis and the mental health services.

To have a rich understanding of local community resources that can be accessed to improve their physical and mental well-being and staying up to date with accessible support services outside of GCMHRES.

You will play a key role in engaging with local services and advocating on behalf of clients and GCMHRES services.

To increase awareness and keep a live electronic resource of activities and services that can be accessed outside of the Greenwich Community Mental Health Rehabilitation and Enablement service to promote balanced wellbeing and independence.

To help build positive relationships between your team and outside services and organisation.

To support clients to engage in activities in the community including joint participation and introduction in line with clients preferences.

To be aware and highlight the diverse needs of clients to ensure that interventions and activities offered reflect the needs of the clients and local communities.

To promote a culture of balanced wellbeing with self, staff, clients and carers.

To support the evaluation and impact of the role.

To keep up to date on the latest Integrated Care developments and research.

To draw on your own lived experience of managing your health in a holistic and integrated way.

To ensure accurate and timely records are maintained in line with Trust policy.

To assist the service user to understand their rights and choices within the service.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

Working from a basis of personal lived experience, the post holder will:
Share ideas with service users about ways of achieving wellbeing and recovery goals, drawing on personal experiences including self-management.

Provide signposting for service users to resources including opportunities within the Trust and in the wider community. Help service users to gain access to volunteering opportunities and wellbeing and leisure activities.

Organise activities with a wellbeing focus for service users including groups and 1:1 contacts and assess outcomes of activities.

Undertake planned group work in the community environment under the supervision of a qualified clinical member of staff.

Work collaboratively under the direction of qualified clinical staff to deliver aspects of service user's care plans, sharing own lived experience as appropriate to the task.

Contribute to formal clinical assessments of service users under the supervision of a qualified clinical member of staff and report back to those involved in service user's care plans.

Contribute their lived experience to promote recovery values within the team

Promote positive risk taking and support greater independence with service users.

Use Person Centred Planning approaches to support service user's personal development and enable them to pursue life ambitions. Supporting service users to express and put into action their recovery and wellbeing plans