Overview
This role involves working within one of our hubs located in Redhill, closely with our crisis and home treatment service in East and Mid Surrey. As a Peer Support Worker you will work alongside home treatment team staff to provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to support service users in their recovery journey. You will take a lead in identifying and referring service users to the service and provide one-to-one support and coaching from a lived experience perspective.
To provide one-to-one support for people from a lived experience perspective, in environments suitable to the service user. This will focus on helping provide support with strategies to manage activities of daily living such as self-care, caring for their home and pursuing leisure activities.
Responsibilities
* To assume a coaching role supporting people in 1:1 meetings in developing personal recovery plans, using a structured self-management booklet.
* To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills using own experience of recovery.
* To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users.
* To build safe, trusting relationships with service users to empower and enable each individual service user to discover and use their own strengths and build positive connections with peers, networks and wider communities in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way.
Flexible working
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
About Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental health, learning disability and community trusts to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
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