Carer Peer Support Worker - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

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This is an exciting opportunity to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team in Brighton
As part of our ambition to deliver outstanding care we are looking to recruit a Carer Peer Support Worker to complement our existing multi-disciplinary team. If you have had your own experience of mental health issues and would like to support others in their recovery, please apply.
We are looking for an expert by experience that has lived experience of mental health issues, to support the delivery of interventions through the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment tam. . As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Carer Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.
Working collaboratively alongside service users and their carers, the CarerPeer Support Worker builds on a person’s ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Carer Peer Support Workers engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Carer Peer Support Worker will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, co-produce and co-facilitate groups (where possible) and increasing individual occupational performance and participation.
This small, friendly, multi-disciplinary team is based at the Department of Psychiatry in Brigton.
You will be supported by the team leader and the wider MDT. You will be provided with individual clinical supervision, and opportunities to link with other Carer Peer Support Workers and other services for peer support and development.
As a service we offer a real commitment to support your continuing professional development through a variety of internal and external training opportunities and university accredited courses.

The base for this post is in Brighton & Hove, however the team regularly works flexibly and remotely using a range of digital solutions for meetings and consultations.

• To support individuals and groups to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with teams, and where possible, carers, to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.
• To use appropriate skills in engaging with families and carers of individuals with mental health challenges eg asking open ended questions, validating strengths and experiences and using empowering language to overcome negative self talk
• To support and enable families, carers and individuals with mental health challenges to resolve conflicts and regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment based on principles or peer support recovery such as sharing your personal recovery story
• To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience, using parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate
• To provide support to individuals in gaining choice, developing and managing meaning and purpose of life and independence, and maintaining dignity and self respect
• To work with their allocated service users as they transition from either ward to community services or between community-based services as appropriate to the role.
• To undertake any other such duties as may reasonably fall within the remit of the post, as required by the Manager/Supervisor

Please refer the Job description for details