Peer Support Worker

Job overview

To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal community mental health team offering a comprehensive perinatal mental health service, to partners of service users experiencing mental health difficulties and their families in the perinatal period.

To participate in the development and maintenance of a quality region wide perinatal service through effective collaboration, liaison and prioritisation with statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Contribution to the building up of local care networks for mothers and their family.

The role of the Peer Support worker is to help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on your mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.  To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in peers.

The post holder will be responsible for providing short-term support to vulnerable individuals. The post holder will be responsible for working closely with the service user, their partner and family to prioritise need and plan actions to address the identified needs.  This may include supporting an individual to make a referral to a specific service and support the individual to attend the initial appointment with that service.

Main duties of the job

NL&SC SPCMHT covers a vast footprint including Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre, Lancaster and South Cumbria. We are seeking applications from confident and enthusiastic people who are passionate about working in a perinatal service

The role of the perinatal peer support worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery in the perinatal period. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible to the service users we work with. Peer support workers provide invaluable support to service users and their partners navigating mental health systems.

The post holder will be responsible for providing short-term support to vulnerable individuals. The post holder will be responsible for working closely with the service user, their partner and family to prioritise need and plan actions to address the identified needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.