Successful applicants will leverage their experiences to demonstrate the feasibility of sustainable employment while promoting a recovery-oriented approach within the community. Additionally, the role involves delivering employment workshops, collaborating with clinical teams for referrals, and maintaining professional standards. The ideal candidate will show a commitment to learning and contribute to improving employment services for individuals overcoming mental health challenges.
Are you a Peer with Lived Experience in Mental Health Recovery?
We are seeking a Peer Employment Specialist with personal experience of recovery from mental health challenges, including accessing secondary mental health services such as rehabilitation services, supported accommodation, and in-patient mental health services.
This unique role allows you to use your journey of recovery to inspire and support others in their employment and recovery.
You will work with individuals who have mental health needs, guiding them towards meaningful paid employment and demonstrating that recovery and sustainable employment are possible. This role is vital in creating hope and offering real-world support through your own lived experience!
Applicants must demonstrate own personal lived experience of accessing secondary mentalhealth services. Secondary mental health services do not include being treated by the GP/IAPT/Talking Therapies or accessing private therapy. The role requires synonymous lived experience to the communities we serve.
If the application does not state having lived experience of accessing secondary mental health services then the application will be rejected.
You will utilise your lived experience and use this directly in your role to inspire hope and belief that people with mental health difficulties can thrive in employment and or vocational occupation.
You don't need to have specific experience in IPS or employment support, but you do need to be willing to learn.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lived Experience Focus: Share your personal experience of accessing rehab services, supported accommodation, and inpatient care to inspire service users in their recovery journey.
- Client Support: Manage a caseload of individuals seeking to return to work, using your lived experience to provide tailored guidance, mentoring, and job support.
- Employer Engagement: Proactively build relationships with employers to secure job opportunities, ensuring reasonable adjustments and supporting job retention.
- Peer Support: Lead group or 1:1 peer support sessions, assisting clients in crisis, recovery planning, and wellbeing.
About us
This will involve:
- Motivating and supporting a caseload of 10-15 clients to gain and sustain paid employment.
- To utilise your lived experience in all communication aspects of your role to inspire hope and role- model sustainable employment in recovery
- To model/mentor a recovery process alongside (and as an aspect of) an employment journey and demonstrate self-management skills and techniques, using own experience of recovery.
- To promote the benefits of employment for those with lived experience of overcoming mental health challenges.
- To provide individualised support to service users once they have returned to work to assist them in sustaining employment, acting as a role model to clients to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.
- To promote the service to clinical staff and service users to ensure the service is well utilised.
- To have an understanding of evidenced based IPS employment practice.
- To meet and exceed sustained job outcome targets for people accessing the service.
- To build relationships with clinical teams to generate referrals and create collaborative working partnerships with clinical staff, ensuring a multi-disciplinary team approach to supporting individuals to get back to work.
- To support the team in promoting a recovery orientated environment by identifying recovery- focused activities and imparting information and education as required. This would involve promoting courses being delivered by Recovery and Wellbeing College as well as supporting the development of information sessions.
- To maintain a professional relationship with the clients of the programme and with other staff, with particular attention to confidentiality, trust policies and maintenance of professional
- To contribute to the on-going improvement and development of Trust-wide employment
- To provide effective in work support to individuals once they secure paid employment to ensure they retain
- To deliver employment workshops, employment surgeries and job clubs with other members of staff as required.
- To work independently, reliably and deliver consistently to deliver effective IPS delivery.
- To work flexibly as required by the individual and employer which may require some working out of normal office hours.
- To adhere to administrative and data capture protocols which record the progress of individuals, and to keep accurate and complete records of casework.
- To ensure that effective monitoring and evaluation systems are adhered to and keep abreast of changing practice within vocational rehabilitation.
- To adhere to CNWL Employment Services policies and service standards.
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