Peer Support Worker - CAMHS Co-production and Engagement Team

at  Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centered and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?
If so, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for Peer Support Worker to work within the CAMH CoProduction and Engeagement Team
You will be a member of the Transforming Care Intensive Support Service (TCISS) across North Central London (NCL), providing coordination and direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental health needs and/or behaviour that challenges.
This is a pilot project, targeting intensive interventions at children and young people who are part of the LD & Autism cohort. The aim is to keep children young people in the community, to prevent avoidable admissions to Tier 4 inpatient mental health services and 52-week residential placements, and to support young people in this cohort to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.
Your role will be to within the NCL wide team, leading on co-production, service evaluation and improving outcomes for CYP. The Team will provide high quality support to the children and young people and their families/carers, working as part of a team to help unblock the system, provide a bridge across different parts of the system including health, education and social care, and be a key point of contact for families/carers who are part of the LD & Autism Programme. In addition, you will work with other professionals across the system to directly support families/carers across various settings to support the young person to remain in the community.
BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.
BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which delivers MH care across some of the prisons and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as ’Outstanding’ by the CQC. We have also been appointed as the lead provider of forensic mental health services across North London managing the devolved New Models of care budget of £170m from 2018/19.
Please see Detailed job description for main responsibilities
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and
issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health

Please refer the Job description for details