About this role
Job summary
Do you have lived experience of mental health difficulties in adolescence? Do you want to use your lived experience of recovery to help others?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate individual with this lived experience to join our award-winning Children and Young People (CYP) Peer Support Team, covering the north of the county (Lincoln, Louth, Sleaford, Gainsborough) on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) work with children and young people (CYP), building mutual, strength-based relationships to promote hope and support CYP to meet their recovery goals. We are therefore looking for individuals who can understand and relate to the experiences of young people using mental health services, including the current issues and challenges that impact on young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing.
As the CYP Peer Support Team works across a number of our CYP mental health teams (Healthy Minds Lincolnshire, CAMHS, Mental Health Support Teams, CYP Complex Needs Service), it is important to have excellent communication skills and work creatively to help young people and families have a positive experience of our services.
Please note, applicants will need to be able to travel independently across the county without reliance on public transport. Please indicate how you would do this in any application.
If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Abbie Futter on 01522 535189.
Main duties of the job
Peer Support Workers provide emotional support and practical assistance to young people currently accessing CYP Services. Through sharing their own experiences of recovery, Peer Support Workers will build positive and trusting relationships, helping young people and families discover their own strengths and feel hopeful about their future.
Duties of the role include:
Modelling principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
Sharing coping, self-help and self-management techniques with children, young people and their carers. This often includes promoting and completing recovery and wellness plans with young people, both individually and in group settings.
Supporting young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their independence and emotional and social development.
Supporting young people who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
Contributing to the development of children and young person's involvement and participation in our CYP services to ensure we are capturing and acting on lived experience voices.
Supporting young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their independence and emotional and social development.
Contributing to the development of children and young person's involvement and participation in our CYP services to ensure we are capturing and acting on lived experience voices.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description Job responsibilities
Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this) Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role
Desirable
Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification Recovery college course qualification
Experience Essential
Lived experience of mental health issues Lived experience of accessing CAMHS and/or engaging in treatment/support from a mental health service when an adolescent Experience of being in a role supporting or mentoring others Experience of working in a team or group environment Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
Desirable
Experience working with children and young people Experience of working in a team Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
Skills Essential
Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills Able to confidently use a computer Able to develop positive relationships with children and young people and assist them in developing and meeting recovery goals Able to demonstrate a non-judgemental, respectful attitude toward others Ability to understand and relate to current issues that impact on children and young people's mental health, including the impact of stigma and discrimination Understanding of service user involvement and participation and why it is important An ability to recognise and manage own stress. Ability to demonstrate and model self-care skills Good organisational skills, including time management Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback Be able to ask for help Ability to work creatively and use initiative Ability to work well within a team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Horizon Centre
Monson Street
Lincoln
LN5 7RZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)