Heart and Soul Peer Worker - Cavell CentreinPeterboroughinPeterboroughPUBLISHED WED 4 DEC 2024
Opportunity to provide meaningful, person-centred care that supports the holistic wellbeing of individuals in a hospital setting.
Ability to draw on your own lived experiences and recovery to inspire hope and motivate others on their journey to wellbeing.
Engagement with a supportive community of volunteers and chaplains, fostering a collaborative environment focused on spiritual and emotional health.
Possibility to creatively explore and address spiritual needs, helping individuals find meaning in their experiences and future.
Involvement in initiatives that bridge hospital care with community services, facilitating smoother transitions for individuals back into everyday life.
Professional development through participation in peer worker forums and team meetings, enhancing skills and knowledge relevant to mental health support.
Empowerment to act as an advocate for patients, helping them navigate resources and support systems tailored to their individual needs.
The role of Heart and Soul Peer Worker at the Cavell Centre involves providing pastoral care and promoting spiritual well-being within the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust's holistic care framework. The peer worker will draw on their own life and recovery experiences to support individuals in hospital, fostering meaningful conversations about their journey and future. They will inspire hope in others, encourage pathways to well-being beyond hospital stays, and help integrate community services into the Cavell Centre.
Successful candidates will work collaboratively with a community of volunteers and other peer workers, drawing on shared experiences of mental health challenges. Responsibilities include referring individuals to specialist chaplains, developing relationships with CPFT staff, participating in team meetings, and attending professional development forums, all while ensuring a safe and supportive environment for service users.
Successful candidates will work collaboratively with a community of volunteers and other peer workers, drawing on shared experiences of mental health challenges. Responsibilities include referring individuals to specialist chaplains, developing relationships with CPFT staff, participating in team meetings, and attending professional development forums, all while ensuring a safe and supportive environment for service users.
Opportunity to provide meaningful, person-centred care that supports the holistic wellbeing of individuals in a hospital setting.
Ability to draw on your own lived experiences and recovery to inspire hope and motivate others on their journey to wellbeing.
Engagement with a supportive community of volunteers and chaplains, fostering a collaborative environment focused on spiritual and emotional health.
Possibility to creatively explore and address spiritual needs, helping individuals find meaning in their experiences and future.
Involvement in initiatives that bridge hospital care with community services, facilitating smoother transitions for individuals back into everyday life.
Professional development through participation in peer worker forums and team meetings, enhancing skills and knowledge relevant to mental health support.
Empowerment to act as an advocate for patients, helping them navigate resources and support systems tailored to their individual needs.
Heart and Soul peer workers represent CPFT's pastoral care and spiritual wellbeing service, and they join the Heart and Soul community of volunteers, specialist chaplains and peer workers.
In this role you will be free to act in your own right on behalf of Heart and Soul, and to be creative in how you use your life experience, lived experience and recovery to the benefit of people in our care in hospital.
You will be expected to bring a spiritual flavour to what you do - in other words, looking for the meaning in the experience when people reflect with you on what brought them to hospital care in the first place, but also in how they see their future, and to do so very gently.
Working for Heart and Soul will appeal to you if you would consider yourself to be a spiritual person, whether that is, or has been, a religious thing or not.
Heart and Soul will also appeal to you if you are interested in joining a community populated chiefly by volunteers, most of whom have their own experience of mental health challenges, but who have all come to understand that a spiritual life is one that looks for and explores meaning, and is open to a way of understanding mental health challenges that is complementary to the medical model, and is for some people, much more important than that.
- Provide person-centred, holistic care to people in the care of the Cavell Centre.
- Tell people about the Heart and Soul service when it is appropriate to, and about opportunities for participating in its activities.
- Inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others through your own example.
- Encourage people to find their own pathway to wellbeing beyond their hospital experience by sharing information and opportunities for belonging and socially.
- Find ways, with others, to bring services and support from the wider community into the Cavell Centre, as a first step into life beyond the hospital.
- Help the Heart and Soul service to understand how it can increase its involvement in the life of the Cavell Centre.
- Refer individual people in hospital care, and/or carers needing their specialist support, to Heart and Soul chaplains Jane or Mohammed.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Provide pastoral care and promote spiritual wellbeing amongst your peers at the Cavell Centre.
- Provide person-centred, holistic care to people in the care of the Cavell Centre.
- Inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
- Encourage people to find their own pathway to wellbeing beyond their hospital experience by sharing information and opportunities for belonging and socially.
- Find ways, with others, to bring services and support from the wider community into the Cavell Centre, as a first step into life beyond the hospital.
- Help the Heart and Soul service to understand how it can increase its involvement in the life of the Cavell Centre.
- Refer individual people in hospital care, and/or carers needing their specialist support, to Heart and Soul chaplains Jane or Mohammed.
- Make decisions in situ, and to act responsibly regarding any safeguarding matters that may arise from time to time: this means, in effect, knowing who to go to and report any concerns you have, in a timely and professional manner.
- Develop positive relationships with all CPFT staff.
- Attend the peer worker professional development forum
- Attend monthly TEAMS meetings of Heart and Soul core team
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