Deaf Mental Health Project Peer Support Worker
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
This is a new and exciting post to work closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Deaf Mental Health, working across the South Yorkshire footprint of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering, developing and supporting the equality and inclusion agenda as part of the Deaf mental health services. They will draw upon their own lived experience of being a deaf British Sign Language (BSL) user or living within a family that use BSL (e.g. having deaf parents or siblings).
This will include a key role in supporting and developing mechanisms for BSL users, families and carers to influence and have a say in development of the services.
By offering hope and encouragement, the role will help people to feel understood, valued, and empowered in helping to design services that are accessible to them.
The post holder will work with services to look at the needs of BSL users and work in partnership with members of the deaf community who may have experienced mental health need themselves, carers, and colleagues within the multidisciplinary team to promote accessibility. This may include providing deaf awareness sessions for services and providing information to the deaf community regarding mental health conditions and signposting them to the appropriate services.
Main duties of the job
This role is central to reducing stigma, fostering inclusion, and ensuring that the voice of lived experience is represented in the design and delivery of mental health support.
The service operates flexibly between 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays). Dependent on engagement events that are taking place, there will be occasions when the post holder will be required to adjust their working hours so that they can support the event.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications