Family Peer Support Worker

Anexciting opportunityhas arisen to be part of the newly established Therapeutic Intervention Service (TIS) as a Family Peer Support Worker, working with the Family/Carers of adults who are open to the service. The service supports adults from both a mental health and dementia perspective. We are looking for a family peer support worker to join this exciting new service which will cover Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire South, with a base in the South (Lings Bar Hospital), eachMonday and Tuesday.

Peer support is when people use their own lived experiences to support others who are having similar experiences. Family peer support workers use their experiences of being a carer to support families and carers of people who use our services. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals with lived experience of supporting a friend or loved one through mental distress and recovery, to support carers in the community.

This can be a very emotionally challenging role working in a fast-paced environment. You will have access to support, supervision, and a comprehensive training package from the peer development team as well as guidance, supervision and training opportunities within your team environment.

Please note that this post may not meet the pay and skill level required for a Skilled worker visa

Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa and also does not appear on the shortage occupation list for healthcare and education. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria herehttps://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

The role is to complement the service provided by healthcare professionals to inspire hope and empower families and other carers to support their family member to reach their own individual recovery goals and make sense of their personal recovery journey as well as manage their own wellbeing. If you have lived experience of caring for someone in mental distress and want to use your experience to help and inspire others, then this role might be the one for you.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

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To establish supportive relationships with carers and people using mental health services based on the core principles of peer support (mutual, reciprocal, strengths focused, safe, progressive, non-directive, recovery focused and inclusive)

To share personal experiences of caring, recovery and coping to build connection and inform support

To use active listening skills to help people develop self-understanding and identify their personal recovery goals

To support others in achieving goals that they have identified for themselves, including signposting to other organisations and opportunities

To role model recovery, personal responsibility and self-awareness

To raise awareness of recovery language among Trust staff by modelling positive, strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work

To embrace every opportunity to work with people in a recovery focused way, supporting the community team by undertaking duties that would be a reasonable expectation of the role

To maintain strengths focused clinical records.

To develop and expand the role

The therapeutic Intervention service was launched in 2022 and will deliver a whole range of therapeutic interventions across MHSOP to both people with Dementia of any age and people with mental illness aged 65 plus.

Interventions will be in the form of both groups and individualised and delivered over a variety of platforms including face to face and 1:1.

The service is divided into 2 teams - Nottingham City and South Notts plus mid and North Notts,