MHCB Deputy Peer Lead

+ To provide specialist advice and direction to The MH Clinical and the development of peer support
+ To hold responsibility for education and training within the MH Clinical Board and the Recovery College and to coordinate provision by multidisciplinary staff, service users, carers and multiagency providers.
With support from the Mental Health Clinical Board develop the policies and procedures to enable the safe running of Peer Support across a range of venues.
+ To provide leadership across the Peer Support Team including responsibility for appraisal, supervision, induction, training and education
+ To work closely with the Service lead for recovery, clinical leads for occupational therapy and the Peer Lead to promote, develop and embed the principles of recovery orientated practice across the MHCB
+ To work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, voluntary organisations, local authority and other appropriate health and social care sectors to negotiate Peer provision across all levels of mental health provision.
+ To maintain appropriate records in accordance with UHB requirements, + As an autonomous practitioner, will demonstrate self-management skills and independence in thought and action and take personal responsibility for professional performance e.g. regular lone working and with service-users / students in the community.
+ Identifies and assesses individual learning needs/problems and formulates specific management plans for meeting complex learning needs.
+ Monitors and evaluates the ongoing effectiveness of the Recovery College course plan.
+ Accepts the standards of others without prejudice and regardless of race, religion, politics, socio-economic background and lifestyle.
+ Demonstrates attitudes that ensure the expressed needs and choices of students and carers become the focus of the educational plan.
+ Within an identified area, assumes professional responsibility and accountability to implement peer support across MHCB and demonstrate the unique recovery journey of service-users and the recovery skills of carers and staff.
+ Monitors and evaluates the ongoing effectiveness of the peer support plan through a reflective model demonstrating: - o knowledge to measure and reflect critically on practice o skills in relation to analysis of outcomes.
+ With support from Strategic Lead will develop supervision framework for peer support workforce across MHCB.
+ Delivery of peer support training
+ Education of MHCB staff/teams in relation to embedding peer support workforce
+ To work collaboratively with Co-production Consultant, Recovery College Peer Lead, Recovery College Operational Lead and Head of Lived Experience Workforce to monitor and prioritise requests for Lived Experience input from Mental Health services across Cardiff and Vale.
2. COMMUNICATION
+ Demonstrates effective communication skills when imparting complex information to service users and carers, families, health care professionals and other agencies, e.g. the promotion of health and well-being.
+ Is proactive and contributes to the debate of professional and educational issues.
+ Identifies and minimises interpersonal conflict.
+ Demonstrates IT skills in order to produce reports and set up appropriate spreadsheets and databases.
+ To ensure that any concerns regarding a Service users mental and physical wellbeing is shared with the team in order that a decision to notify the individual's care team is made.
+ To ensure that language used in learning and development activities is recovery focused, motivational and encouraging.
+ To utilise a range of training/facilitating and presentation techniques to keep service users engaged and motivated about learning and adapting styles where there is difficulty in understanding and being sensitive to people's needs and level of learning/ability to learn.
3. MANAGEMENT
+ Identifies opportunities for improvements in services, practice, products and systems and participates in service development with senior/line manager.
+ Takes an active role within local service, educational and clinical networks.
+ Balances professional issues e.g. confidentiality and duty of care in a multidisciplinary educational setting.
+ To ensure that any handwritten and electronic records are maintained in accordance with UHB policy and Recovery College Charter.
+ To implement, in accordance with UHB guidelines, a system of gathering and analysing statistical information in relation to training activity.
4. QUALITY AND SAFETY
+ Develops a credible and professional contribution to the organisation by engaging in personal development planning and continuing professional development.
+ Shares acquired knowledge and skills through effective use of various teaching techniques, presentation skills and a variety of audio-visual aids MHCB Staff Applies set criteria to recruitment of Peers
+ Contributes to the Directorate Service's Quality and Safety arrangements.
+ Participates in the collection and interpretation of statistics in relation to performance reporting.
5. SERVICE DELIVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
+ Working closely with the Lived Experience Lead , the post holder will provide specialist peer input to UHB wide meetings, deliver presentations and consult to all relevant agencies.
+ To assist the Lived Experience Lead in the development, implementation and review of practice, policy and guidelines of the department.
+ To provide specialist peer advice in relation to recovery to all who do business with the UHB.
+ Consult and inform the Peer Lead of any issues that may affect the efficient running of the Lived Experience Programme.To produce and keep up to date all support material for learning initiatives.
+ To be responsible for the effective use of physical resources and supplies including stock, training materials and petty cash.
6. SUPERVISION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
+ To contribute to undertaking an annual VBA.
+ To plan to the induction of new peers to the MHCB .
+ To support peer worker and student placements as appropriate, ensuring a good learning environment is maintained.
+ Attend regular supervision with Lived Experience Lead, Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Deputy Peer Lead to join the C&V MHCB in the Lived Experience (LE) Team. The successful candidate will be an experienced Peer Support Worker with skills and experience to lead Peer Support Practice, supervise others and facilitate Peer Support Work Training Courses. The role covers Mental Health in-patient and community settings. We consider lived and peer support experience as equivalent qualifications so welcome applicants with relevant experience. The C&V LE Workforce and Recovery College are Peer Led. The MHCB Deputy Peer lead will be supervised by the Peer Lead and the Strategic Lead for LE Workforce and Recovery College and will collaborate and co-reflect with the Recovery College Peer Lead, Operational Lead, and Co-Production Lead. With supervision from the Peer Lead this role will involve leading on project management and development and evaluation of new and existing Peer Support Work developments, and will have, The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply., + On a daily basis, demonstrates the ability to maintain high levels of concentration, alertness and awareness in unpredictable environments and clinical settings to include lone worker situations in the community.
+ Demonstrates an ability to emotionally adapt and adopt an empathetic approach to distressing circumstances e.g. profound disability, death, bereavement and information from traumatised students.
+ Demonstrates the abilities to deal appropriately with adverse environmental conditions (such as when undertaking community visits, e.g. cold, damp, infestation, etc.) and unavoidable hazards (e.g. aggressive behaviour of patients or carers) with due regard for responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health
and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together". We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board's Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic
objectives; Putting People First, Providing Outstanding Quality, Delivering in the Right Places, and Acting for the Future. We have challenging times ahead, but we are confident that by tackling these challenges together, we can support people to live healthier lives and reduce the unfair differences in
the prevalence of illness and health outcomes we see in our communities today. We aspire to deliver outstanding care and treatment for people when they need it, where they need it; care that compares well with the best in the world, but to do so, we need to transform how we deliver services over the
next decade and beyond.
We are a values-driven organisation and out goals will only be realised if our values are at the heart of everything we do. Created by colleagues, patients and their families and carers, our values are:
+ We are kind and caring
+ We are respectful
+ We have trust and integrity
+ We take personal responsibility
As an organisation we strongly believe that it is vital our leaders exhibit the behaviours and values that we expect from all our staff.
We are a teaching Health Board with close links to the university sector, and together we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals, while working on research that will hopefully unlock the cures for today's illnesses
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is "Caring for People, Keeping People Well", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.

responsibility for developing and supporting our MHCB Peer Support Team. Additionally, with supervision the Deputy Peer Lead will support, train and advise clinical teams around recruitment and on-going development and support of Peer Support Workers. The MHCB Deputy Peer Lead will work directly with service users as a Peer Support Worker and work as a Peer Trainer in the Recovery College, co-designing and co -delivering Peer Support training and teaching established models of Peer Support.