CYP Peer Support Worker

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have lived experience of mental health difficulties in adolescence? Do you want to use your lived experience of recovery to help others?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate individual with this lived experience to join our award-winning Children and Young People (CYP) Peer Support Team, covering Grantham and surrounding areas (Stamford, Bourne) for 12 months.
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) work with children and young people (CYP), building mutual, strength-based relationships to promote hope and support CYP to meet their recovery goals. We are therefore looking for individuals who can understand and relate to the experiences of young people using mental health services, including the current issues and challenges that impact on young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.
As the CYP Peer Support Team works across a number of our CYP mental health teams (Healthy Minds Lincolnshire, CAMHS, Mental Health Support Teams, CYP Complex Needs Service), it is important to have excellent communication skills and work creatively to help young people and families have a positive experience of our services.
Please note, applicants will need to be able to travel independently across the county without reliance on public transport.
If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Abbie Futter on 01522 535189.
Peer Support Workers provide emotional support and practical assistance to young people currently accessing CYP Services. Through sharing their own experiences of recovery, Peer Support Workers will build positive and trusting relationships, helping young people and families discover their own strengths and feel hopeful about their future.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with children, young people and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
To support the patient’s engagement in services and support them to identify and meet recovery goals.
Support young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their emotional and social development.
Support young people who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
Contribute to the development of peer support opportunities amongst young people open to mental health services.
Contribute to the development of children and young person’s involvement and participation
To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW role and the wider service, including training and on-going evaluation.
Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and local and national policy and legislation.
Engage in a period of induction, supervision and work-related training, as required.
Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information at all times and ensure accurate record-keeping in accordance with Trust Policy.
To work flexibly across the week, this may include some weekend and evening work

Please refer the Job description for details