Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £26,240 – £27,928 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Surrey Liaison and Diversion Service and Reconnect Team are seeking to recruit a caring Peer Support Worker with lived experience of mental health/criminal justice system/substance misuse to join our team.
Our passionate service supports those who have come into contact with the youth and criminal justice system with a caring, compassionate, person-centered approach to vulnerability screening and assessment for all those above the age of 10. This continues through to providing high quality community-based interventions to not only improve health and social care outcomes but also aim to reduce future re-offending.
You will work collaboratively with your colleagues to provide much needed lived experience peer support to those we support.
Your will be based within the community, working alongside our Assertive Outreach Team and Reconnect Team. You will be required to travel during the working day, and role is Surrey wide. Full driving licence is required. Our Peer Support Workers work between 09:00 – 17:00.
Main duties of the job
To provide one-to-one support for people from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user. This will be focused on helping provide support with strategies to manage activities of daily living such as self-care, caring for their home, pursuit of leisure activities and accessing healthcare.
To assume a ‘coaching’ role within the MDT, supporting vulnerable individuals to develop personal recovery and resettlement plans.
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 vulnerable persons.
Our Liaison and Diversion Service is committed and dedicated to developing our Practitioners.by encouraging and providing opportunities for Continued Professional Development, participation in Quality Improvement initiatives
Working for our organisation
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 Trust 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.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached document for the job description and for a detailed overview of the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Numeracy and Literacy at a Key Stage 3 level
- Driving License suitable for use in the United Kingdom
Experience
Essential criteria
- Lived experience of emotional distress/mental health illness
Desirable criteria
- Experience of mental health issues or substance misuse issues
- Experience of the criminal justice system eg arrest, charged with offence, prison
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
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.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
