Peer Support Worker - Homeless Team - #145652
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Leicester
Contract type: Full time
Job Overview
Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
We are looking for a Peer Support Worker to join our Homeless Mental Health Team on a full-time basis Monday Friday 8.30am-4.30pm.
This role is specifically to engage and support people who are homeless experiencing mental health problems, to access services available to them. As a Peer Support Worker in the Homeless team, you’ll be offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individual’s socialisation and psychological resilience particularly for those with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery. You will work alongside a very supportive team and regularly work alongside Mental Health Practitioners & Support Time & Recovery workers & Psychologists in the team.
Due to the nature of the role, the Peer Support Worker role requires someone who has lived experience of being homeless and who has received support through Secondary Care Mental Health services. You will get to meet with service users across the County both within a clinic setting and street outreach such as people who are rough sleeping, staying in temporary accommodation or people that might have just secured their own accommodation. Because of this, you’ll need to be flexible with travelling around the County, you’ll need to have your own driving licence and be open to meeting with people in all sorts of environmentally challenging situations. This role involves operating from various locations across the County as well as some home working.
The Peer Support Worker (homeless) role is a fantastic job opportunity for someone to use their lived experience to help others and if you meet the criteria, we would love to hear from you!
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: Philip Johnson, Senior Mental Health Practitioner - 07880 557638.
Work may dictate some occasional out of hours working (enhancements paid). Due to agile working, designated bases are in operation whereby mileage is calculated from the nearest LPT premises to staff’s home address when travelling to visits, so mileage rates will be payable from this designated location (reducing home to base mileage costs).
Please note that possessing a UK driving licence and means to drive is an essential requirement for this role, any applicants without a driving licence and car will not be considered.
Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)
The successful candidate will offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being, offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.
The team is an active partner within the wider multi-agency statutory & voluntary sector homeless services within Leicester City, and as such the successful applicant would be expected to help facilitate this partnership, as well as assisting to develop the service and similar partnerships across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland.
Going forward as the service develops across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland the work will involve some working in County districts which will be developed around existing staff locations.
In addition to
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
We are looking for a Peer Support Worker to join our Homeless Mental Health Team on a full-time basis Monday Friday 8.30am-4.30pm.
This role is specifically to engage and support people who are homeless experiencing mental health problems, to access services available to them. As a Peer Support Worker in the Homeless team, you’ll be offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individual’s socialisation and psychological resilience particularly for those with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery. You will work alongside a very supportive team and regularly work alongside Mental Health Practitioners & Support Time & Recovery workers & Psychologists in the team.
Due to the nature of the role, the Peer Support Worker role requires someone who has lived experience of being homeless and who has received support through Secondary Care Mental Health services. You will get to meet with service users across the County both within a clinic setting and street outreach such as people who are rough sleeping, staying in temporary accommodation or people that might have just secured their own accommodation. Because of this, you’ll need to be flexible with travelling around the County, you’ll need to have your own driving licence and be open to meeting with people in all sorts of environmentally challenging situations. This role involves operating from various locations across the County as well as some home working.
The Peer Support Worker (homeless) role is a fantastic job opportunity for someone to use their lived experience to help others and if you meet the criteria, we would love to hear from you!
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: Philip Johnson, Senior Mental Health Practitioner - 07880 557638.
Work may dictate some occasional out of hours working (enhancements paid). Due to agile working, designated bases are in operation whereby mileage is calculated from the nearest LPT premises to staff’s home address when travelling to visits, so mileage rates will be payable from this designated location (reducing home to base mileage costs).
Please note that possessing a UK driving licence and means to drive is an essential requirement for this role, any applicants without a driving licence and car will not be considered.
Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)
The successful candidate will offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being, offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.
The team is an active partner within the wider multi-agency statutory & voluntary sector homeless services within Leicester City, and as such the successful applicant would be expected to help facilitate this partnership, as well as assisting to develop the service and similar partnerships across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland.
Going forward as the service develops across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland the work will involve some working in County districts which will be developed around existing staff locations.
In addition to
- Establishing supportive, positive and respectful relationships with all people you come in contact with.
- Providing peer support, maintaining professional boundaries.
- Helping people identify recovery goals themselves.
- Supporting service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
- Undertaking appropriate administrative duties for delivering effective and timely care, including updating patient records.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
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