Peer Support Worker

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 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.

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:

o 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.

o Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support., 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 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 and assist them when taking initial steps in a number of areas dependent on the stage of their personal recovery. For example, recovery activities, volunteering and considering the initial steps into employment.

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

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.