The position involves travel within Cornwall for both group and individual support sessions. The organisation is committed to valuing the PSW's experience and fostering professional development, enabling them to contribute creatively to improving mental health services. As a key member of the Complex Emotional Difficulties Team, the PSW will play a crucial role in addressing complex issues faced by service users, under the supervision of the team and in coordination with other care providers.
Cornwall's Complex Emotional Difficulties Team is looking to employ an additional Peer Support Worker to join the established peer support team. Applicants are required to have their own lived experience of mental ill-health, but not restricted to a Complex Emotional Difficulties.
Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual. The role of Peer Support Worker (PSW) has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of complex emotional difficulties. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
This role will be located in one of the three areas in Cornwall; North and East Cornwall, Central Cornwall, and West Cornwall. Travelling within the local area will be required in the role to support service users in that area, through group and individual work.
We are an organisation who will recognise & value your experience, with a genuine commitment to your career development and continued learning. We will enable you to use your skills and encourage you to develop your ideas to shape our compassionate mental health services.
As an integral and highly valued member of the Complex Emotional Difficulties Team, the PSW will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.
The PSW will engage with the complex emotional difficulties users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community.
PSW will work as part of the specialist Complex Emotional Difficulties Team (CEDT). The CEDT will take the lead in providing solutions to more complex non-routine issues arising and amend procedures in support of the PSW. The PSW will work under the supervision of the CEDT and collaboration of other key stakeholders involved in the delivery of care in the community.
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