An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone with lived experience of eating disorders to join our community eating disorder service for adults as a Peer Support Worker.
Through sharing wisdom informed by lived experience and knowledge, the post holder will:
* Support and promote recovery as a user-led concept
* Emphasise hope and optimism, individual aspirations, and goals
* Value experiential learning
* Focus on strengths rather than deficits
* Foster collaboration between those who need support and those who support them
* Enable and promote autonomy and self-management
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers and have a clear understanding of professional boundaries.
Duties of the Role Include:
* Establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users.
* Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on your mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques, and experience.
* Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy, and hopefulness by sharing your own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in peers.
* Share and promote coping, self-help, and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
* Support service users to identify and overcome fears, and challenge negative self-talk within a relationship of empathy, trust, and honesty.
* Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities, maximising opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity.
* Accompany service users to appointments or meetings of their choice and perform practical tasks aligned with recovery goals.
* Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes towards multidisciplinary team members, service users, and carers.
* Maintain a focus on the rights of service users at all times.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services supporting physical and mental health, including inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK offering high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do their best work and collaborate with service users, families, and carers to co-design future services. We are currently implementing organisational and service transformations to improve quality and reduce costs.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details or informal visits, contact:
Name: Dr. Debra Quine
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email: debra.quine@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0151 3518600
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