Job overview
As part of the Peer Support offering at St Charles Hospital in Kensington and Chelsea we are looking for a Senior Peer Support Worker. The post holder will have their own lived experience of using inpatient mental health services and will already have experience in a Peer Worker Role.
The Post Holder will hold some supervisory responsibilities for peer workers working on the wards as well as upholding peer support and recovery principles throughout the entire mental health unit. Using their own experiences of using inpatient services to help support people using the service, carers and staff alike.
Main duties of the job
You must use your own Lived Experience of using services to support current patients on both a one to one and group basis
Uphold recovery focused practice across the unit
Provide supervision to peer support workers on a one to one and group basis
Support, facilitate and evaluate peer support and recovery groups throughout the unit.
Help support service user and carer involvement work.
Working for our organisation
Located on the wider St Charles site you will be working in the mental health health centre. It is a dynamic and fast paced environment. You will work across all of the wards at St Charles as well as working in close collaboration with the other inpatient therapies team.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and will support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, neurodevelopmental disorders, enhancement treatment and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
·Be committed to professional development through independent learning, keeping up to date with the latest research, and building connections with local and national peer networks.
·Promote development of best practices in peer support and lived experience practice across the service through active participation in internal and external training and development programmes.
·Supporting Service User and Carer involvement forums and opportunities across the unit.
·Supporting the wider Trust wide Lived Experience strategy on a local level
Supporting Quality Improvement (QI) projects in the unit, and including service user and carer involvement within this.
·Respect integrity, confidentiality, clinical governance, and data protection requirements in line with Trust policy.
·Have responsibility for relevant safeguarding issues in relation to service users and their network, including making difficult decisions as a team adhering to the Trust’s Safeguarding policy.
·Engage in self-reflective practices and commit to continued personal development.
·Attending appropriate inpatient meetings, bringing in the peer and lived perspective to these.
·Facilitating the development and delivery of Recovery College Snapshot sessions across the unit.
·Supporting the development and delivery of peer led and recovery focused groups across the unit.
·Providing specialist one to one peer support on the wards.
·Connecting with local area organisations.
Leading on De-escalation on the wards
·To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual development review/appraisal.
·Completion of all mandatory training
·To receive regular line management supervision in addition to discipline-specific supervision.
·Group supervision/Reflective Practice (expectation to attend these)
·Completion of Level 4 Developing Expertise in Peer Working Course if not already undertaken
·Providing Peer Supervision to Peer Support Workers on the wards as well as facilitating Peer Group Supervision to wider peer colleagues across the trust
·Attending their own individual and group supervision both line management and peer supervision as dictated by policy.
·Support and facilitation of monthly learning sessions.
·Supporting any new starters and leading them through the Peer Worker Foundation Training
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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