Peer Support Worker

Job overview

**Please note - due to current Immigration rules and regulations, this post is not eligible for sponsorship.**

Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path to recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual. As such we would actively seek peers who have lived experience of maternal mental health such as lived experience of pregnancy loss, fear of childbirth, birth trauma or neonatal trauma.

The Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to engage with appropriate services, develop an identity, regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. The Peer Support Worker will come alongside a service user through their recovery journey and assist them when aspiring and considering the initial steps on their recovery journey.

Main duties of the job

Using personal lived experience to support women and birthing people through their maternal mental health journey in both 1-1 interventions and group support.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team, linking in with external agencies to support people through their time with the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raising hope for change and aspirations of live.
• To work primarily in direct work with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
• To help individuals identify strengths, interests and their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals.
• To support the implementation of groups
• To support service users in developing other areas of interest.
• Draw upon own lived experience to inspire hope, model self-awareness and facilitate service users in developing their own resourcefulness for managing their health and wellbeing.
• Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable participation in activities, to maximise service user's opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity.
• To actively engage with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the needs of the client group are met through promoting recovery orientated, strengths based practice.
• To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance of other professional colleagues within the team.
• To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks.
• To have an awareness of the maternal mental health pathways.
• To actively take responsibility for own health and wellbeing discussing/reviewing within supervision as necessary.
• To be willing to develop self through specialist training opportunities, relevant to your role as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
• To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.