Peer Intervention Delivery / Peer Support Worker

We are recruiting for a Peer Support Worker to join our Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis clinical research group on a 24 month fixed-term contract where you will work on delivering a new six-month guided online programme called Feeling Safer, funded by the NIHR. This intervention aims to achieve substantially improved outcomes for the large number of people with persecutory delusions who have not responded sufficiently to current treatment.
You'll work in a team including a site lead, a clinical/counselling psychologist and research assistants to engage individuals at the early stages of psychosis and deliver this specialist CBT intervention (Feeling Safer) with close supervision from a clinical psychologist; working within NHS services and clinical trials methodology.
This is a part-time role (22.5 hours per week) based at the Department of Experimental Psychology in central Oxford.
If you have lived experience of psychosis, bipolar disorder, or severe depression, with particular experience related to feeling unsafe due to inaccurate worries of harm from others, and would like to share this to help others then we would love to hear from you., The postholder will deliver a new six-month guided online programme for the treatment of persecutory delusions: Feeling Safer. It is an accessible and expanded version of the face to-face therapy called Feeling Safe. Users can access Feeling Safer whenever they choose via smartphone/computer/or tablet. A range of mental health workers can support the delivery of the treatment over six months. Six face-to-face sessions will be reserved for a key task: going out with patients into everyday situations to relearn safety. By providing Feeling Safe in an accessible version for use across the NHS, we aim to achieve substantially improved outcomes for people with persecutory delusions who have not responded sufficiently to current treatment.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties, + All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
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+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) team based in the Department of Experimental Psychology. We are a large clinical research team working to understand why mental health problems happen and how they can be best treated psychologically. The O-CAP team, led by Prof Daniel Freeman, comprises approximately 30 people, including clinical psychologists, project coordinators, peer researchers, VR computer scientists, research assistants, DPhil students, and administrators. The key focus is on improving outcomes for patients with psychosis.

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