Peer Support Worker Apprentice - North & West Oxon Primary Care MHT

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have prior lived experience of ill-mental health, either yourself, or as a carer?
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) are people who have their own lived experience of mental health challenges or have supported/cared for someone with mental health challenges. They use empathy informed by their own experiences to support service users/families who are accessing mental health services.
We’re looking for people who are compassionate, can work well in a team, highly motivated and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be provided with training for the role and given the opportunity to complete the national recognised care certificate.
Is this right for me?
If you are thinking of applying, The Trust strongly recommends attendance at one of the Peer Support Worker information sessions. These sessions will help you understand more about the role so you can make an informed decision if the job is right for you.

LIVED EXPERIENCE:

Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatient’s by helping them to identify and build their own support network.
To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services.
Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users’ feelings.
To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health.
To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
To have the individual service user’s needs always at the forefront of the PSW’s practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice.
To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach

Please refer the Job description for details