Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £24071.00 to £25674.00
Date posted: 22nd November 2024
Closing date: 22nd December 2024
Peer Support Worker
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Job Description:
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker within the Exeter City Core Adult Community Mental Health Team based at Wonford House in Exeter.
This role may involve some home/remote working.
You'll be joining Devon Partnership Trust, which encompasses urban, rural and coastal demographics that combine to make this a fascinating and beautiful area to work.
The successful candidate's will be joining a dynamic, motivated and skilled service and help the team in the Exeter City Core Adult Mental Health Team to build upon the successful work they have and continue to achieve. The Exeter City Core Adult Mental Health team are proactively engaging with the local Primary Care Network, working collaboratively with local GP Surgeries, Talkworks and Voluntary and Community Sector Enterprises.
The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges.
Through sharing your own experiences, this may inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
Your role will be to establish supportive relationships with people using mental health services based on the core principles of peer support (mutuality, reciprocity, strengths-focused, safe, progressive, non-directive, recovery-focused and inclusive).
Main duties of the job
As an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will provide formalised peer support to service users in order for them to achieve goals that they have identified for themselves. This will include signposting to other organisations and connection to local communities.
As a core member of the multidisciplinary team, you will work alongside an agreed number of service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis.
This job may be emotionally challenging at times, but the successful applicants will receive supervision, guidance and training from colleagues within the Community Mental Health team, the Peer Support Leadership team and the wider organisation.
Overview
- To form and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients, staff and other members of the mental health team.
- To support service users by building relationships of empathy and trust.
- To share ideas about ways of supporting self-defined recovery goals, drawing on personal experiences and a range of coping, self-help and self-management techniques.
- To provide support to individuals in gaining choice, developing and managing meaning and purpose of life and independence, and maintaining dignity and self-respect
- To support access and facilitation of activity sessions both on a one-to-one and group basis for service users
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Contact information:
Community Team Manager
Lesley Murch
01392208900
