About this role
Job summary
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting a Peer Lead for Culture of Care and Inpatient Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to build upon and significantly develop the peer support provision across TEWV Inpatient Services and Lead the Lived Experience and Coproduction in our Inpatient Culture of Care Program.
The program for the implementation of the culture of care standards for mental health inpatient care sets out to support TEWV to realise the culture of care within inpatient settings everyone wants to experience - people who need this care and their families, and the staff who provide this care. The approach is trauma-informed, autism-informed and based on anti-racism. Underpinning everything is the commitment to lived experience leadership, co-production and collaboration
You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.
Main duties of the job
For this role, we are looking for someone who has significant experience of peer leadership and has personal experience of mental health challenges and who has personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient/tertiary mental health services. You will have substantial experience in the development of peer support and of working in lived experience essential roles. You will have personal experience of delivering formal peer support to service users. Applications from diverse backgrounds including lived experience of the criminal justice system are welcomed and those experiences will be seen as valuable lived experience for this role.
We value diversity and want to have a wide range of identities represented in the peer workforce. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of distress and mental health services from the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) and other diverse groups.
We also value a diversity of experiences with mental health services and the criminal justice system in the peer workforce and welcome applications from people with helpful, difficult or mixed experiences of mental health services.
Successful applicants will receive training and regular line management and peer supervision to support them in the role.
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In addition to their leadership and supervision work, the Peer Lead for Culture of Care and Inpatient Services may also be professionally accountable for their own small caseload of Peer Work (as role demands allow). Drawing on your own experience of mental health challenges, you will walk alongside others on their journey in a supportive peer relationship built on our core peer values of authenticity, relationship, validation, respect, mutuality and empowerment. You will listen non-judgementally to create safe spaces where people feel heard. You will approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity. You will recognise and value peoples strengths, diversity and expertise in themselves. You will be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Equivalent to Degree level experience in developing and delivering Peer Support in a community or NHS setting
- Educated to Degree level OR evidence of ability to write reports to Degree level standard
- Masters / Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject OR willingness to undertake within agreed timescale OR demonstrable Peer Work development knowledge to Masters level equivalent
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
- Completed Trust approved Peer Support Training
- Peer / Clinical Supervisory Skills course.
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Training in patient leadership
- Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
- Trust QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
Experience
Essential
- Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
- Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient/tertiary) mental health services
- Substantial experience of working as a peer worker or in another lived experience essential role
- Substantial experience of delivering formal peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Passionate about the values of peer support and good understanding of what the role adds to an organisation and conditions needed for successful implementation of peer roles
- Understands importance of peer work maintaining integrity to peer support values and commitment to supporting this
- Good understanding of trauma informed approaches and trauma informed peer support, and a demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice and to service development
- Good understanding of Recovery Values and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice and service development
- Specialist peer knowledge in own service area
- Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology
- Understanding of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Commitment to working to and promoting TEWV Peer Support Values and to supporting service users and peer work staff groups voices to be heard
- Commitment to promoting Trauma Informed Approaches and Recovery Values
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team and wider healthcare and peer support system
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and accept and respond positively to feedback
- Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours
- Committed to continual quality and service Improvement
- Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
- Committed to promoting an authentic understanding of Peer Support Service and the wider trust
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address
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TS4 3AF
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)