Perinatal Peer Support Worker inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED
WED 27 NOV 2024
The Perinatal Peer Support Worker will play a vital role in the multi-disciplinary team, offering nurturing support and practical assistance to mothers to help them regain control over their lives and strengthen their bond with their babies. They will promote self-determination, help mothers connect with their communities, and serve as a recovery ambassador within the Trust and with partner organisations. Additionally, they will contribute to the development of peer support roles and training programs within the Trust.
Please note that the position does not meet the salary requirements for a Skilled Worker visa.
An exciting role has arisen for a Perinatal Peer Support Worker based at The Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit. This is a new role for the team and we are looking for a Perinatal Peer Support Worker, with your own lived experience of perinatal mental illness, having reached a level of recovery that allows you to use your experiences to help others.
As a Perinatal Peer Support Worker, it is essential that you have your own lived experience of perinatal mental illness, and have reached a level of recovery that allows you to use your experiences to help others.
The Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit is accredited by the Perinatal Quality Network within the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and provides high quality assessment, care and treatment of mothers, from 32 weeks gestation to one year post partum, accompanied by their babies who are experiencing a severe mental illness.
As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the PSW will provide nurturing peer support and practical assistance to mothers using services in order for them to regain control over their lives nurture their relationship with their new baby. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and positive living for both the mothers they support and their wider family networks. This will include helping mothers connect or re-connect with their local communities and establish their own coping strategies.
The PSW will act as a positive role model within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. There is also an expectation that PSWs will be involved in the ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust including the Peer Support Training Programme and evaluation.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for a full list of the role requirements
Please note that this post does not meet the pay level required for a Skilled worker visa.
Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsZtCL
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