Senior Peer Support Worker - Eating Disorders Services

Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of people with eating disorders as a Senior Peer Support Worker?
We would like to invite applications for the post of Senior Peer Support Worker. These posts will involve using your lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder to provide best practice peer support interventions and care for adults with a full range of eating disorder difficulties.
The post will be based at Maudsley Hospital. the Eating Disorders Departments include the outpatients, day service, ETT and inpatients,
The EDOPD is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties., As part of the Senior Peer Support Worker role, you will be supporting individuals with eating disorders across outpatients, day services & the Enhanced Treatment Team via individual and group peer support interventions, under the clinical and professional supervision of a qualified psychologist, psychotherapist or CBT therapist & other members of the MDT.
The post holder will also support Peer Support workers development in their roles via providing them regular supervision. The post holder will also contribute to the development and co-ordination of Peer Support services across the service.
We are looking for enthusiastic people to be part of our well-established and growing peer support service. The successful applicants will be engaging, approachable, motivated, committed to personal and professional development, and able to engage with people with complex mental health difficulties. They will be organised, with existing experience working with mental health care., + To provide recovery-oriented input, including groupwork, to those in lived experience roles in relation to supervision, urgent care issues and referrals.
+ To assist people in lived experience roles to reflect on how to provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning to their clients in the most effective way.
+ To provide direct support to people in lived experience roles by attending joint visits for those service users with more complex issues.
+ To support the recruitment and induction of Peer Workers within the Eating Disorder Teams.
+ To support the training and development of Peer Workers and other staff groups
+ To develop an effective and supportive infrastructure for the Peer Workers to offer advice and support for the managers of the Peer Workers.
+ Work in partnership with key clinicians and stakeholders, to develop a robust project plan agreed by the sponsors and their leads.
+ Resolve any enquiries regarding documentation and/or status of any project.
+ Communicate with all levels regarding project progress.
+ To be able to travel to settings across South London - arears covered, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Croydon, Greenwich, Bromley and Bexley
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
+ Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
+ Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
+ We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
+ That all applications for this post will need to be made online
+ That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
+ That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe'

NHS AfC: Band 5
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Working for our organisation
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spear-heading innovative practices in the treatment of eating disorders?
The Eating Disorder Unit (EDU) is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties. Outpatient treatments include guided self-help, group and individual interventions. We are the developers of MANTRA, now recommended as part of NICE 2017 guidelines for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, and of FREED (First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders).
We offer opportunities for ongoing training and collaboration with colleagues across the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences at King's College London.