Peer Facilitator

Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual, and could support an individual to develop a career within the NHS.
The Peer Support Facilitator will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. The Peer Support Facilitator will come alongside a service user through their recovery journey.
Peer Support Facilitators work as part of our teams and in collaboration with other colleagues within the team. Peer Support Facilitators engage with 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 role will include 1:1 and group work and Peer Support Facilitators will support service users in developing pre-vocational skills. Pre-vocational interventions will be delivered by the Peer Support Facilitator and these will support service users to increase their confidence and work ability, develop a daily routine and engage in other opportunities that will assist with their recovery.
Peer support Facilitators draw on lived experiences to bring hope and raise aspirations to increase opportunities to access employment support, to those using services. Encourage and inspire a recovery focus amongst team colleagues.

Do you have experience of using mental health services and working as a peer facilitator in Early Intervention services? Would you like to use these experiences to support other people and their families receiving these services?
Can you inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals?
Are you are willing to share your own experiences with others, if so we are looking to recruit Peer Facilitators with lived experience of using mental health services to join our East Early Intervention team.
Peer Facilitators will receive support and training to enable them to carry out the day-to-day duties of the post and as employees of the Trust, will have full access to our staff health and wellbeing offer, including supervision and other occupational health services.
Personal Qualities ideal for the role:
Having an empathic understanding of a service users' experience when admitted to a mental health inpatient unit that is supported by the following:
+ Ability to encourage participation, good communication skills or willingness to develop these
+ Ability to listen without bias and to objectively see both sides of an issue
+ Ability to feedback information in a constructive manner
+ Ability to use lived experience in a positive and appropriate way with an awareness of own personal recovery journey
The post holder will work within our East Lancashire Early Intervention Service.

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.


• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.


• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT