Peer Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Peer Support Worker who have personal lived experience of forensic services or using secondary mental health services. The Peer Support Workers will be supporting service users who are in the process of being discharged from secure forensic services to community living.
The Peer Support Workers will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including other therapy staff to support the delivery of person-centred care which could include one-to-one sessions and community outings, as well as an opportunity to co-produce and co-deliver recovery-based groups and sessions. You will be working directly with service users who are in the community - providing practical support and advice.
The Peer Support Workers will use their lived experience to promote and model recovery, use empathy, build strong rapport and share experiences to support service users to develop healthy, structured and independent lives in the community., Job Description Peer Support Worker Intensive Enablement Team
1. To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users based on the values and principles of Peer Support informed by the HEE Peer Competency Framework.
2. Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, assisting with creating a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) which will feed into the care planning process.
3. Draw on your mutual resources and lived experience as a peer utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience to support service users.
4. Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the appropriate sharing of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in service users.
5. Support service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship , trust and honesty, challenging negative self-talk.
6. Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities.
7. Act as a positive role model demonstrating professional and recovery-oriented practice and language towards other multi-disciplinary team members, service users and carers.
8. Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.

+ Do you have lived experience of using forensic services/mental health services?
+ Do you want to use your lived experience to support other people?
+ Do you want to change lives?

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
+ Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
+ Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
+ Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
+ Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
+ Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
+ Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk, North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
· We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
· NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
· Excellent internal staff network