Peer Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a number of peer roles for people who have personal experience of mental health challenges and previous experience as a Peer Worker to join a newly developed team in our Crisis Prevention Houses. Peer support has an integral role in the model of care we are developing as part of our community transformation as well as providing career development opportunities for Peer Workers. Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust is developing a new model of service delivery at the Crisis Prevention Houses, a bridge between in patient and community care, in which service users they can attend peer led and co-developed recovery programmes. The ethos is based on the Enablement Approach, facilitated by a clinical team, and majority delivered by staff in Peer roles to support people who use the service with their mental health, wellbeing, education, community engagement, and goals.
Applicants successful in recruitment to Haringey will be part of an exciting transformation programme with the proposed move of the existing crisis house to a new integrated service alongside Safe Haven and Recovery College at the Canning Crescent Centre in Wood Green. This move is expected to take place in late 2024/25.
Please apply if you have permission to work in UK as sponsorship is not available for this post, + Promote the Peer Worker role, through the provision of information and a range of learning opportunities for the multi-disciplinary team and others across the Trust.
+ Promote embedding recovery values within the service and act as an ambassador of the Enablement principles with external agencies and partner organisations.
+ Engage in co-production activities or projects and support clients to engage in co-production within service development.
+ Promote recovery best practice and role model jargon and medical free language across the Trust.
+ Contribute to the on-going development of the Peer workforce
+ The post holder will utilise their own lived experience of Mental Health Services, drawing on recovery based strategies and role modelling hope.
+ They will work within the Peer Worker team for the house and play a fundamental role in developing and supporting current and new Peer Workers roles in the Crisis Prevention House.
+ These posts will have a clinical caseload by working directly with people referred to the Crisis Prevention Houses. In addition, working closely with the clinical team, and other Peer worker colleagues and collaboratively will work to continue to develop and embed the new service within the Crisis Prevention Houses across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.

BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.
BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which delivers MH care across some of the prisons and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We have also been appointed as the lead provider of forensic mental health services across North London managing the devolved New Models of care budget of £170m from 2018/19.
This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly. Further information can be found at https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425.

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