Band 5 Lived Experience and Peer Support Coordinator – Bristol
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Bristol
Band 5 Lived Experience and Peer Support Coordinator – Bristol
Band 5
- Main area
- Perinatal mental health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time – 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-SS064-0323
- Site
- Callington Road Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £27,055 – £32,934 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/03/2023 23:59
Job overview
We have a great opportunity with expansion of perinatal mental heath services for a suitably skilled candidate with lived experience of perinatal mental illness to lead on the development of the peer support worker role and coproduction within AWP perinatal mental health services.
In order to improve women’s experiences of receiving perinatal care, promoting their recovery, meeting NHS England’s Long Term Plan ambitions, AWP perinatal mental health services aim to embed peer support workers within each of the Community Perinatal Mental Health Services and OCEAN and MaLT Services. (See JD and KLI for more information on these services).
A key aspect of this role will be to ensure coproduction is at the forefront of service development to inform our work on increasing the representation of people with lived experience across the perinatal mental health pathway. Proven skills of supporting people with perinatal mental health or complex mental needs, supervising and/or managing others within peer support worker role, lived experience or equivalent experience required.
Main duties of the job
The Peer Support and Lived Experience Coordinator will facilitate and support the recruitment and development of peer support worker roles across the perinatal service across AWP. The post holder will provide high quality individual supervision to peer support workers, supporting them in developing their role within the multidisciplinary team.
The role will include the provision of expert peer support to women who are being treated by the perinatal service and the provision of providing advice to mental health services across the ICB re: the development and sustainability of peer support worker posts, including role definition.
The post holder will act as an ambassador of recovery, through positively sharing and drawing upon aspects of own lived experience, to inspire others, challenge stigma and discrimination and promote recovery.
A key aspect of this role will be to ensure coproduction is at the forefront of service development. The post holder will be confident in managing small projects, facilitation of expert reference groups, organising and coordinating engagement activities and supporting delivery of training to inform our work on increasing the representation of people with lived experience across the perinatal mental health pathway. Excellent communication skills and networking with external organisations such as the Maternity Voices Partnership, in addition to representation on AWP Service User Involvement Hub, are essentialcomponents of the role.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Peer Support and Lived Experience Coordinator will facilitate and support the recruitment and development of peer support worker roles across the perinatal service across AWP with guidance from the Perinatal Community Service Managers.
The role will include the provision of expert peer support to women who are being treated by the perinatal service and the provision of providing advice to mental health services across the ICB re: the development and sustainability of peer support worker posts, including role definition.
Through sharing the wisdom of own lived experience, the Peer Support and Lived Experience Coordinator will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others, taking a lead role in embedding recovery values within the perinatal service. The post holder will act as an ambassador of recovery, through positively sharing and drawing upon aspects of own lived experience, to inspire others, challenge stigma and discrimination and promote recovery.
The Perinatal Peer Support and Lived Experience Coordinator will be actively involved in the recruitment of peer support workers. The post holder will provide high quality individual supervision to peer support workers within the teams, and will work alongside newly recruited peer support workers, supporting them in establishing their role within the multidisciplinary team.
Please see job description for further details
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of perinatal mental health issues and/or services, as a service user.
- Experience working with people with Perinatal mental health needs, or people with complex needs
- Knowledge of peer work theory and practice
- Experience of managing / supervision of others
- Knowledge/experience of and commitment to lived experience work and coproduction
Desirable criteria
- Experience of presenting / teaching
- Experience of audit/evaluation
- Experience of delivering groups
- Proven knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures relating to adults and children and young people
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with a Recovery focused approach
- IT skills including ability to produce various documents in Word, and use of email and internet.
Qualification and Experience
Essential criteria
- Peer support training / qualification or equivalent experience
- Numeracy and literacy to GCSE Grade C (New level 4) /NVQ 2 or equivalent
- Supervision training or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- A recognised qualification in a relevant field (for example DipSW, RMN, CPN
- Management/coaching qualification
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
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Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Becky Eva
- Job title
- Clinical Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07712 425717
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