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Lived Experience Peer Support Worker • Merseyside
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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in Merseyside
with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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1. Can you tell us about your own lived experience with mental health challenges and how it has shaped your desire to support others in their recovery journeys? Can you tell us about your own lived experience with mental health challenges and how it has shaped your desire to support others in their recovery journeys?
2. What aspects of your recovery experience do you feel would be most beneficial to those you would be supporting in this role? What aspects of your recovery experience do you feel would be most beneficial to those you would be supporting in this role?
3. What motivated you to apply for the position of Lived Experience Peer Support Worker, and what do you hope to achieve in this role? What motivated you to apply for the position of Lived Experience Peer Support Worker, and what do you hope to achieve in this role?
4. How do you define recovery in the context of mental health, and how can you apply this understanding in your work with service users? How do you define recovery in the context of mental health, and how can you apply this understanding in your work with service users?
5. Can you give an example of a coping or self-management technique that you found helpful during your recovery? How would you share this with someone else? Can you give an example of a coping or self-management technique that you found helpful during your recovery? How would you share this with someone else?
6. What strategies would you use to build a trusting and respectful relationship with service users? What strategies would you use to build a trusting and respectful relationship with service users?
7. How would you approach advocating for a service user’s rights in a situation where they may feel hesitant to speak up themselves? How would you approach advocating for a service user’s rights in a situation where they may feel hesitant to speak up themselves?
8. Can you provide an example of a time you helped someone connect with community resources or support networks? What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them? Can you provide an example of a time you helped someone connect with community resources or support networks? What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them?
9. How do you envision collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support recovery-oriented activities? How do you envision collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support recovery-oriented activities?
10. Can you discuss your approach to using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language when communicating with service users? Can you discuss your approach to using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language when communicating with service users?
11. What do you believe are some effective ways to facilitate community engagement for individuals recovering from mental health challenges? What do you believe are some effective ways to facilitate community engagement for individuals recovering from mental health challenges?
12. How would you encourage service users to participate in community groups and promote a sense of belonging? How would you encourage service users to participate in community groups and promote a sense of belonging?
13. What have been some of your biggest challenges in your peer support journey, and how have you addressed them? What have been some of your biggest challenges in your peer support journey, and how have you addressed them?
14. How do you ensure that you continue to develop your skills and maintain your own wellbeing while supporting others? How do you ensure that you continue to develop your skills and maintain your own wellbeing while supporting others?
15. If you were working with a service user who is struggling to set their own recovery goals, how would you support them in this process? If you were working with a service user who is struggling to set their own recovery goals, how would you support them in this process?
16. How would you handle a situation where a service user becomes resistant to your support or suggestions? How would you handle a situation where a service user becomes resistant to your support or suggestions?
17. Mersey Care’s commitment is to ‘perfect care’. What does ‘perfect care’ mean to you, and how would you embody this in your role? Mersey Care’s commitment is to ‘perfect care’. What does ‘perfect care’ mean to you, and how would you embody this in your role?
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nLived Experience Peer Support Worker with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Merseyside, England, United Kingdom\n\nDo you have lived experience of mental health challenges and services and have a desire to support others on their recovery journey? If so, we invite you to join our team in this unique and rewarding role. Role Merseycare foundation trust have produced an animation available on YouTube which explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from a team’s perspective which potential candidates may find helpful it can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM Any prospective candidates who feel they would benefit from additional support & guidance to submit an application are encouraged to reach out to us at the following email address in the first instance: peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk The role involves building supportive and respectful relationships with service users, helping them identify, explore, and achieve meaningful and sustainable recovery goals. By sharing personal recovery stories, the worker will inspire confidence and self-belief in others, promoting essential coping, self-help, and self-management techniques. A key responsibility is facilitating community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks, which promotes social inclusion and a positive identity. The role also involves advocating for service users' rights, accompanying them to appointments, welcoming them to a service, signposting advice and promoting autonomy and self-management. Additionally, the worker will contribute to fostering a recovery-oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language to support recovery-focused activities. Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Edward Kelly /Ann Taylor Job title: Senior Peer Support Workers Email address: peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk"}