Carer Peer Support Worker - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

We are looking for an expert by experience that has lived experience of mental health issues, to support the delivery of interventions through the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment tam. . As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Carer Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.

Working collaboratively alongside service users and their carers, the CarerPeer Support Worker builds on a person's ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Carer Peer Support Workers engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Carer Peer Support Worker will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, co-produce and co-facilitate groups (where possible) and increasing individual occupational performance and participation.

Working for our organisation

This small, friendly, multi-disciplinary team is based at the Department of Psychiatry in Brigton.

You will be supported by the team leader and the wider MDT. You will be provided with individual clinical supervision, and opportunities to link with other Carer Peer Support Workers and other services for peer support and development.

As a service we offer a real commitment to support your continuing professional development through a variety of internal and external training opportunities and university accredited courses.

The base for this post is in Brighton & Hove, however the team regularly works flexibly and remotely using a range of digital solutions for meetings and consultations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To support individuals and groups to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with teams, and where possible, carers, to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.

· To use appropriate skills in engaging with families and carers of individuals with mental health challenges eg asking open ended questions, validating strengths and experiences and using empowering language to overcome negative self talk

· To support and enable families, carers and individuals with mental health challenges to resolve conflicts and regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment based on principles or peer support recovery such as sharing your personal recovery story

· To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience, using parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate

· To provide support to individuals in gaining choice, developing and managing meaning and purpose of life and independence, and maintaining dignity and self respect

• · To work with their allocated service users as they transition from either ward to community services or between community-based services as appropriate to the role.

· To undertake any other such duties as may reasonably fall within the remit of the post, as required by the Manager/Supervisor

For those candidates requiring a VISA to work in the UK, please be aware that significant knowledge and experience of at least 2 years, (preferably within the NHS) is required to meet the pay threshold for a Health and Care Visa.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team in Brighton

As part of our ambition to deliver outstanding care we are looking to recruit a Carer Peer Support Worker to complement our existing multi-disciplinary team. If you have had your own experience of mental health issues and would like to support others in their recovery, please apply.,
• A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills


• Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning


• Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills, Experience of working with people with Psychosis/Complex mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity


• Experience working as part of a team


• Experience of being supervised


• Lived experience of Psychosis and mental health issues/difficulties


• Managing personal mental health and recovery


• Knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work
  
  Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.


So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team., Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.