Perinatal Peer Support Worker

Job overview

The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service is looking for a motivated and passionate Peer Support Worker to join us. This is an innovative award winning service delivering new models of specialist care within West London NHS Trust.

The position will be in the borough of Hounslow, however the successful candidate will be asked to work across the tri-borough service; Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow who are based at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Maternity Hospital, Trust headquarters and Hounslow House.

This would be an exciting opportunity for a person with lived experience of Perinatal Mental Health to join our service. You will be a member of the multi-disciplinary team, facilitating client-centred activities for our women and their families.

We expect through sharing aspects of your own lived experience of mental health challenges and of accessing services, that you as Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and the belief that recovery is possible in others. We would support the successful candidate with an ongoing training programme to facilitate their development within the post.

Main duties of the job

• Providing recovery focussed support to service users
• To establish supportive and respectful relationships with people using mental health services.
• To help service users to complete recovery plans, incorporating identification of users own goals and support needed to achieve them.
• To ensure that interactions are sensitive and responsive to the service users’ ethnic, cultural and social background, using a range of communication and engagement skills as appropriate to the context.
• To promote social inclusion and engagement.
• To share ideas about ways of achieving and developing recovery, drawing on personal experiences and a range of interventions.
• To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness.
• To sign-post to various resources, opportunities and activities within the Trust and the community to promote choice and informed decision making.
• To accompany service users to appointments/meetings/activities of their choice and performing a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery goals.
• To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW training programme and in the ongoing evaluation of the PSW role.
• To maintain adequate case records in accordance with Trust policy, and to ensure that concerns are reported to relevant professionals and documented promptly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.