Peer Support Worker - Perinatal Services inStafford inStafford PUBLISHED
FRI 29 NOV 2024
As a critical component of the mental health provision, the PSW will help individuals navigate their recovery journeys, addressing barriers and encouraging participation in their care processes. The role not only involves providing emotional support but also actively collaborating with other professionals to ensure holistic and individualized care for patients and their families. The organisation welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds, including male candidates.
Do you have lived experience of perinatal mental health?
Would you like to use this experience to help others?
We are delighted to be advertising this new opportunity for a Peer Support Workers (PSW) that is motivated & enthusiastic with lived experience of perinatal mental health to join our team within the South Staffordshire Perinatal Service.
The PSW role has been developed specifically for people with lived experience of mental health difficulties. If you have lived experience of recovery from mental health difficulties, ideally including experience of secondary mental health services or perinatal mental health difficulties, then this role could be for you.
As a PSW, your time will involve direct contact with service users on a 1:1 basis as well as in group settings. You will be a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, attend weekly team meetings & be provided with supervision & training. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team including Consultants, Clinical Psychologists, Nursery Nurses, Occupational Therapists, MH Nurses & Team Managers.
As a PSW, you will be acting as a role model by using your own lived experience of recovering from mental health issues, to inspire hope & help service users to develop a belief in their own abilities to deal with various situations; the confidence to have control over their own motivation, behaviour, & social environment; & the ability to successfully achieve their goals in life.
- To work directly with an identified caseload of individuals and their carers through a range of methods including, video/telephone call, text and in person face to face sessions.
- To work with identified individuals and members of the wider MDT to ensure care plans are truly co-produce
- To draw on own lived experience to offer understanding, support and hope to individuals accessing the service and promote independence and recovery.
- Contribute to the overall care of an individual, helping to identify any early warning signs of deteriorating wellbeing by monitoring an individual's mental health, level of functioning and mental state, escalating any areas of concerns to the relevant senior staff member.
- Drawing on personal experience to help individuals to identify their strengths and triggers and supporting them to establish the things that are important to them in their life, identifying goals and the steps they wish to take to achieve them.
- Supporting individuals to identify and overcome any barriers which may impact their recovery.
- Champion a recovery orientated service including promoting involvement, engagement, participation and co-production opportunities.
About us
Peer support is recognised as a key component of modern mental health and wellbeing provision.
A key feature of this post is to promote individual person centred recovery by drawing on the peer support workers own personal lived experience of mental health challenges and of accessing mental health services, particularly within the perinatal period.
As a pivotal and highly valued member of the team, peer support workers will have a case load of identified patients and their families who they will work with on both an individual basis and by delivering group interventions, working in collaboration with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Male applicants are welcomed to apply
For further information please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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