Senior Peer Support Worker - Peer Support Team

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

NHFT have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Peer Support Worker to join the Peer Support Team. The primary focus will be to provide training, supervision and support for peer support workers, trainees, and volunteers across the Trust. Peer Support Workers actively use their lived experience to support other people and inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible. Peer support complements the support that healthcare professionals give to service users and carers and supports them to reach their recovery goals. NHFT have Peer Support Workers based in several Teams including community mental health services, specialist mental health teams and inpatient services. The Senior Peer Support worker will work alongside the Peer Support Lead and the Recovery College team to provide a variety of peer support training courses. As a Senior Peer Support worker you will provide supervision and support for junior Peer Support Workers and work with the Peer Support Team in the continued development of the service. Your role will include building links with external agencies to work together in a collaborative approach to develop the Peer Support Service and Peer Support Training
This is the ideal fixed term contract / secondment for an experienced service user or carer peer support worker who would like to step up into a supervisory position and take an active role in developing and training other peer support workers.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL:

• Provide regular, high quality individual and group supervision for peer support workers and volunteers within the trust
• Support the building of safe and trusting relationships based on shared lived experience
• Enable peers to exercise leadership, choice and control over the way in which peer support is given and received
• Contribute to developing a peer network within NHFT
• Co-design and co-deliver peer support worker training to people who wish to use their lived experience to support others
• Participate in Trust peer support training and promote the value and benefits of peer support to staff and service users
• Deliver training, both face to face and on-line depending on the needs of the trust
• Co-design and deliver other courses and training with the Recovery College and Peer Support teams
• Encourage and support student’s involvement in training courses
• Review and assess students participating in peer support worker training
• Use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate
• Support individuals and groups using a peer approach
• Be a positive role model for people overcoming mental health challenges, their families and carers
  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
  NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
  For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details