Peer Support Worker - Autism/ Learn Disability Liaison Team-CAMHS inOxford inOxford PUBLISHED 17 DEC 2023
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Please note, applications for this role close on Sunday 4th August. Interview dates will take place between Wed 28-Aug-24 Mon 2-Sep-24.
We're looking to recruit a Parent and Carer Peer Support Worker to join the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Specifically this vacancy is for a position within the Autism and Learning Disability Liaison Team (ALDLT).
The Autism and Learning Disability Liaison Team is part of an exciting initiative known as the Keyworker service, that will transform the support mechanisms for children and young people with learning disabilities, autism, or both. This includes those who face multiple vulnerabilities such as looked after and adopted children, and children and young people in transition between services.
The team also supports children and young people who are inpatients, or at risk of being admitted to a mental health hospital as well as placement breakdown. You will have an allocation of parents and carers where their children/young people are accessing the ALDLT, their own caseload, usually offering support within a more structured approach.
To be eligible for this role you must have experience as a parent/carer of a child with autism/learning difficulties who has been supported by mental health services.
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Does the candidate require a drivers licence: yes
Oxford Health offer the Peer Support Training programme as a nationally recognised accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship (fully funded by Oxford Health).
The Peer Worker Apprenticeship is completed over a period of 15-19 months depending on whether a Peer Support Worker works part time or full time (22.5-37.5 hours).
Eligibility criteria to enrol on the Apprenticeship includes having GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English qualifications. You will be expected to provide evidence of these qualifications. If you do not have these qualifications, we would still welcome your application for consideration, but you would need to complete The Trusts functional skills courses on Maths and/or English whilst in the role before enrolling on the Apprenticeship. All new Peer Support Workers will be provided with training for the role and support from a tutor and supervisor within their working hours.
Lived experience:
- Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatients by helping them to identify and build their own support network
- To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services
- Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users feelings
- To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
- Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health.
- To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
- To have the individual service users needs always at the forefront of the PSWs practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice
- To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach.
Do you have prior lived experience of ill-mental health, either yourself, or as a carer?
This post is recruiting for a Peer Support Worker within the Child and Adolescent Oxford Health Oxfordshire Mental Health Service.
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) are people who have their own lived experience of mental health challenges or have supported/cared for someone with mental health challenges. They use empathy informed by their own experiences to support service users/families who are accessing mental health services.
We're looking for people who are compassionate, can work well in a team, highly motivated and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be provided with training for the role and given the opportunity to complete the national recognised care certificate.
Is this right for me?
If you are thinking of applying, The Trust strongly recommends attendance at one of the Peer Support Worker Online information sessions. These sessions will help you understand more about the role so you can make an informed decision if the job is right for you.
There are two dates to choose from:
Thursday 25th July 12.30pm-1.30pm MS Teams
Wednesday 31st July 5.15pm-6.15pm MS Teams
Booking is essential
. Please email:
and state which session you would like to attend. Please note if you do not register your attendance in advance you will not be sent the meeting link.
The peer support worker role sees the introduction of lived experience into everyday practice. PSW's offer a combination of group and one to one work and will work within the multi-disciplinary team to support a service users recovery journey. The post holder will facilitate formal and informal learning, working with staff in clinical practice and supporting clinical teams to develop recovery-based practice.
The core function of this post is to offer peer support to service users within CAMHS. The peer support worker will demonstrate best practice in relation to the application of recovery principles to practice. Peer Support Workers model the recovery principles together with personal responsibility, self-awareness and self-care whilst undertaking the duties of the role.
Please see attached document regarding the eligibility criteria for this role and ensure you have read this carefully.
Please note, applications for this role close on Sunday 4th August. Interview dates will take place between Wed 28-Aug-24 Mon 2-Sep-24.
We're looking to recruit a Parent and Carer Peer Support Worker to join the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Specifically this vacancy is for a position within the Autism and Learning Disability Liaison Team (ALDLT).
The Autism and Learning Disability Liaison Team is part of an exciting initiative known as the Keyworker service, that will transform the support mechanisms for children and young people with learning disabilities, autism, or both. This includes those who face multiple vulnerabilities such as looked after and adopted children, and children and young people in transition between services.
The team also supports children and young people who are inpatients, or at risk of being admitted to a mental health hospital as well as placement breakdown. You will have an allocation of parents and carers where their children/young people are accessing the ALDLT, their own caseload, usually offering support within a more structured approach.
To be eligible for this role you must have experience as a parent/carer of a child with autism/learning difficulties who has been supported by mental health services.
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Does the candidate require a drivers licence: yes
Oxford Health offer the Peer Support Training programme as a nationally recognised accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship (fully funded by Oxford Health).
The Peer Worker Apprenticeship is completed over a period of 15-19 months depending on whether a Peer Support Worker works part time or full time (22.5-37.5 hours).
Eligibility criteria to enrol on the Apprenticeship includes having GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English qualifications. You will be expected to provide evidence of these qualifications. If you do not have these qualifications, we would still welcome your application for consideration, but you would need to complete The Trusts functional skills courses on Maths and/or English whilst in the role before enrolling on the Apprenticeship. All new Peer Support Workers will be provided with training for the role and support from a tutor and supervisor within their working hours.
Lived experience:
- Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatients by helping them to identify and build their own support network
- To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services
- Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users feelings
- To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
- Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health.
- To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
- To have the individual service users needs always at the forefront of the PSWs practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice
- To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach.
Do you have prior lived experience of ill-mental health, either yourself, or as a carer?
This post is recruiting for a Peer Support Worker within the Child and Adolescent Oxford Health Oxfordshire Mental Health Service.
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) are people who have their own lived experience of mental health challenges or have supported/cared for someone with mental health challenges. They use empathy informed by their own experiences to support service users/families who are accessing mental health services.
We're looking for people who are compassionate, can work well in a team, highly motivated and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be provided with training for the role and given the opportunity to complete the national recognised care certificate.
Is this right for me?
If you are thinking of applying, The Trust strongly recommends attendance at one of the Peer Support Worker Online information sessions. These sessions will help you understand more about the role so you can make an informed decision if the job is right for you.
There are two dates to choose from:
Thursday 25th July 12.30pm-1.30pm MS Teams
Wednesday 31st July 5.15pm-6.15pm MS Teams
Booking is essential
. Please email:
and state which session you would like to attend. Please note if you do not register your attendance in advance you will not be sent the meeting link.
The peer support worker role sees the introduction of lived experience into everyday practice. PSW's offer a combination of group and one to one work and will work within the multi-disciplinary team to support a service users recovery journey. The post holder will facilitate formal and informal learning, working with staff in clinical practice and supporting clinical teams to develop recovery-based practice.
The core function of this post is to offer peer support to service users within CAMHS. The peer support worker will demonstrate best practice in relation to the application of recovery principles to practice. Peer Support Workers model the recovery principles together with personal responsibility, self-awareness and self-care whilst undertaking the duties of the role.
Please see attached document regarding the eligibility criteria for this role and ensure you have read this carefully.
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