Peer Support Worker Programme Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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This is an exciting and important opportunity to be a lead in a programme that is helping shape new ways of working in our mental health service.

Our Trust has led the way in developing a unique youth mental health service, Forward Thinking Birmingham, that is focussed on the needs of people aged 0-25 and their families/carers.

A growing part of this is our Peer Support Programme that recognises the valuable contribution those with lived experience of mental ill health can bring to our focus on recovery.

The programme provided bespoke peer training and substantive posts within our clinical teams in collaboration with a leading national training provider IMROC.

If you are somebody with their own lived experience of mental health and have excellent leadership skills and qualities, then this is the role for you.

You will work with an established team that includes Peer workers, Clinical Leads, Lead Nurses and Partner organisations.

You will be responsible for the coordination of the Peer Support programme that will include oversight of recruitment, training, work placements and ongoing supervision and reflective practice processes.

One of the key aims for this post is to also lead on co-production work with the five universities in Birmingham to explore how peer support can work with their existing wellbeing support to students a group who we recognise can have mental health support needs but may require innovative ways to engage them