Please note, applications for this role close at approx. midnight on Sunday 27th April. Interviews are provisionally scheduled for 15th and 16th May Keystone Mental Health & Wellbeing hubs provide early intervention for people aged 18 and over who need mental health support. People with mental health challenges are enabled to access support when and where they need it, by the right people.
Drop in sessions are run from the hubs for people to be able to access mental health services easily by walking in from the street. Peer support workers are there to offer a listening ear and their wealth of knowledge of local services and community based organisations that support people with mental health problems. This role may involve working at one of several bases across the South of Oxfordshire, this can be discussed in more detail at interview. Peer support workers work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals helping to prevent relapse by providing recovery-focused interventions.
The hub is linked to local GP surgeries and NHS mental health services. Service animation video link: https://youtu.be/g1WKA41aTYg Oxford Health offer the Peer Support Training programme as a nationally recognised accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship (fully funded by Oxford Health). The Peer Worker Apprenticeship is completed over a period of 15-19 months depending on whether a Peer Support Worker works part time or full time (22.5-37.5 hours). Eligibility criteria to enrol on the Apprenticeship includes having GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English qualifications.
You will be expected to provide evidence of these qualifications. If you do not have these qualifications, we would still welcome your application for consideration, but you would need to complete The Trusts functional skills courses on Maths and/or English whilst in the role before enrolling on the Apprenticeship. All new Peer Support Workers will be provided with training for the role and support from a tutor and supervisor within their working hours. 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 inpatients 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 users needs always at the forefront of the PSWs 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

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