30 hours per week - (4 shifts) (Working evenings on a rota basis, 4pm to Midnight shifts, with weekend/bank holiday working essential), The Lighthouse offers support to people experiencing or at risk of a crisis, delivered in partnership between Solent Mind and Hampshire and IOW NHS Foundation Trust. As a well-established Crisis service supporting our community over the last 6 years, we are recruiting for a Senior Peer Specialist for our ever expanding team. The Lighthouse offers face to face support at our Southampton centres in Bitterne and Shirley alongside a remote service using text and telephone, through an integrated team of peer and nursing staff.
Responsibilities
* Offering support, co-ordination and supervision to a small team of peer workers.
* Taking a lead role in the delivery of face to face support to people who are in distress, by providing a safe space for them to talk and make sense of their experiences and sharing your own experiences in an appropriate way where helpful.
* Contributing to the ongoing development of the service and partnership.
These posts will involve 4pm-12midnight shifts on a rota basis which will include weekends and bank holidays. Unsocial hours enhancements have been applied in line with the NHS enhancement rates for all hours worked on weekends/bank holidays and after 8pm weekdays.
About you
You will need to have personal, lived experience of a mental health issue. As well as the confidence and aptitude to supervise and support staff within a busy service, and to calmly and effectively take a lead on day-to-day face to face operations, by implementing processes and policies and managing risk whilst supporting people who are distressed and/or in crisis.
Please explain in your personal statement how you meet each of the criteria from the person specification.
Solent Mind is the largest mental health charity in Hampshire. It is part of a network of 125 local Minds in England and Wales, which are independent charities affiliated to Mind, the national mental health charity. Solent Mind has its own board of trustees and raises its own funds to deliver its services, support and training tailored to the needs of people living in Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight. Solent Mind has a gold award for workplace wellbeing index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a mindful employer.
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