Job For Peer Support Worker
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Position: Peer Support Worker
Employer: Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Location: South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Position: Full-time
Pay Rate: £25,147 – £27,596 per annum
Duration: Permanent
Benefits
- Certificate of Sponsorship
- Staff discounts and salary sacrifice schemes
- Visa Sponsorship required
- Develop Your Skills: Access excellent training and development programs to advance your career in the NHS.
- Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package alongside the intrinsic rewards of working within the NHS.
- Supportive Team: Join a collaborative and friendly team that values your contribution and offers opportunities for growth.
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Key Responsibilities
- To draw upon your lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users to support their recovery. Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships. Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships
- Understand a persons experiences in relation to their mental health
- Advocating for people to be treated with dignity and respect
- Acting as a Named Worker for a designated caseload to ensure service users receive a consistent approach and a named person to contact. This will involve building a working relationship and to promote an individuals ability to manage their own needs and independence. As a named worker you will work in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary team to support the overall care and treatment plan of the individual.
- Support service-user access to digital interventions/technology
- To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of someone using services
- Understand a persons coping strategies and strengths and support people to use these at times of distress or difficult
- To enable/assist/support service users to develop self-management of their condition taking an empowering approach to promote independence (doing with and empowering, not doing for people).
- To recognise escalating informing others as appropriate.
- To report untoward incidents and areas of concern as soon as they arise.
Requirements:
- Lived experience of psychosis or lived experience of extraordinary / unusual / confusing / puzzling thoughts and perceptions
- Knowledge of mental health and associated difficulties, including primary and secondary health & social care in relation to recovery principles and practice.
- Knowledge of the philosophy and principles of co-production and service user and carer led recovery initiatives.
- Awareness of the impact of stigma and discrimination and knowledge of trauma-informed care.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, verbal and written skills.
- Good IT skills, including some knowledge of and skills in the use of Microsoft Office software programs, e.g. Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
- Excellent problem solving and organisational skills.
- Educated to GCSE level in Maths and English Language, or equivalent.
- willingness to undertake any further training as required.
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