• Job Description

  Req#: C9369-24-0542?language=en&page=567&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker within the Teign Core Adult Community Mental Health Team based at Estuary House in Newton Abbot.

  This role may involve some home/remote working.

  You'll be joining Devon Partnership Trust, which encompasses urban, rural and coastal demographics that combine to make this a fascinating and beautiful area to work.

  The successful candidate's will be joining a dynamic, motivated and skilled service and help the team in the Teign Core Adult Mental Health Team to build upon the successful work they have and continue to achieve. The Teign Core Adult Mental Health team are proactively now engaging with the local Primary Care Network, working alongside the local GP Surgeries.

  The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges.

  Through sharing your own experiences, this may inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

  Your role will be to establish supportive relationships with people using mental health services based on the core principles of peer support (mutuality, reciprocity, strengths-focused, safe, progressive, non-directive, recovery-focused and inclusive).

  Main duties of the job

  As an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will provide formalised peer support to service users in order for them to achieve goals that they have identified for themselves. This will include signposting to other organisations and connection to local communities.

  As a core member of the multidisciplinary team, you will work alongside an agreed number of service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis.

  This job may be emotionally challenging at times, but the successful applicants will receive supervision, guidance and training from colleagues within the Community Mental Health team, the Peer Support Leadership team and the wider organisation.

  Overview

  • To form and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients, staff and other members of the mental health team.
  • To support service users by building relationships of empathy and trust.
  • To share ideas about ways of supporting self-defined recovery goals, drawing on personal experiences and a range of coping, self-help and self-management techniques.
  • To provide support to individuals in gaining choice, developing and managing meaning and purpose of life and independence, and maintaining dignity and self-respect
  • To support access and facilitation of activity sessions both on a one-to-one and group basis for service users

  About us

  About Devon Partnership Trust

  We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

  We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

  Our values

  We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

  We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

  Date posted

  03 July 2024

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 3

  Salary

  £22,816 to £24,336 a year pro rata (22.5 hours per week)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  C9369-24-0542

  Job locations

  Estuary House

  Collett Way

  Newton Abbot

  Devon

  TQ12 4PH

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others.
  • Lived experience of accessing and negotiating secondary mental health services or equivalent experience from private healthcare/lived experience relevant to patient group
  • Knowledge of mental health and a basic understanding of physical health presentations.

  Desirable

  • Paid or unpaid working experience in health and social care
  • Awareness of safeguarding principles.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Basic Education (Level 2 Qualification).
  • To complete Care Certificate training within the first 3 to 6 months of joining unless already obtained
  • Basic IT skills

  Desirable

  • NVQ level 3, QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification or experience/ equivalent working experience using lived experience.
  • Other evidence of training or development relevant to working within mental health settings (statutory or voluntary).

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively with people using services taking into account any communication difficulties they may have and responding appropriately.
  • An ability to act calmly and to respond in a professional manner to distress, disturbance and unpredictability.
  • Ability to work with people in a group and individual basis.
  • Good written communication.
  • Demonstrate an ability and understanding about how and why we need to maintain personal professional boundaries.
  • To participate in unsupervised tasks and provide accurate feedback to relevant parties.
  • Mobility throughout the area covered by the area covered by service
  • To maintain confidentiality, empathy, compassion and patience towards individuals with mental health challenges.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others.
  • Lived experience of accessing and negotiating secondary mental health services or equivalent experience from private healthcare/lived experience relevant to patient group
  • Knowledge of mental health and a basic understanding of physical health presentations.

  Desirable

  • Paid or unpaid working experience in health and social care
  • Awareness of safeguarding principles.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Basic Education (Level 2 Qualification).
  • To complete Care Certificate training within the first 3 to 6 months of joining unless already obtained
  • Basic IT skills

  Desirable

  • NVQ level 3, QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification or experience/ equivalent working experience using lived experience.
  • Other evidence of training or development relevant to working within mental health settings (statutory or voluntary).

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively with people using services taking into account any communication difficulties they may have and responding appropriately.
  • An ability to act calmly and to respond in a professional manner to distress, disturbance and unpredictability.
  • Ability to work with people in a group and individual basis.
  • Good written communication.
  • Demonstrate an ability and understanding about how and why we need to maintain personal professional boundaries.
  • To participate in unsupervised tasks and provide accurate feedback to relevant parties.
  • Mobility throughout the area covered by the area covered by service
  • To maintain confidentiality, empathy, compassion and patience towards individuals with mental health challenges.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Devon Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  Estuary House

  Collett Way

  Newton Abbot

  Devon

  TQ12 4PH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Devon Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  Estuary House

  Collett Way

  Newton Abbot

  Devon

  TQ12 4PH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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