76 Full time, Social Services / Housing jobs in Dorchester, Oxfordshire

Band 5 Service User Network (SUN) Lived Experience Group Facilitator: - Erlegh House, University of Reading, RG6 6BZ. Are you someone with personal experience of personality disorder or significant mental health challenges who wants to make a real difference by supporting others who have been through similar struggles? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Lived Experience Group Facilitator within the Service User Network (SUN). SUN (Service User Network) is an initiative aimed at improving services for people with complex emotional needs or difficulties often associated with the diagnosis of 'personality disorder. The SUN service provides community-based, peer support groups that offer members a space to provide and receive support. As a Lived Experience Group Facilitator your personal journey will be a powerful asset. You'll co-facilitate groups and support our members by drawing upon your own experiences of mental health, treatment, and self-management. You'll help create a supportive environment that fosters understanding among group members. The SUN Team sits within IMPACTT (Personality Disorder Pathway Services), and there may be opportunities to assist in the delivery of other aspects of the EUPD pathway, including the Managing Emotions Programme.,

• Group Facilitation: Working alongside other facilitators in peer support groups, sharing insights from your own journey.
• Supervision: Participate in regular SUN meetings and weekly group clinical supervision, training and reflective practice.
• Networking: Attend promotional events and support opportunities to network and promote SUN within the community.
• Flexibility: You'll need to travel to other locations across Berkshire whilst also having an option to work from home when appropriate.
This role will require a good understanding of the difficulties that individuals may encounter, as well as retaining self-awareness around the emotional impacts of working from a lived experience perspective. As with all our team, you will be provided with specific SUN facilitation training as part of your induction. Groups are usually delivered both online and face to face in the 6 localities across Berkshire: Newbury, Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell, Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead and Slough. The successful candidate will therefore need to be able to both work from home as well as at community sites across these localities in Berkshire as required.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish. Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  This is a permanent post - Full Time (part time hours of 3-4 days a week will also be considered)., Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
FOR SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.