Band 3 Peer Support Worker

The Post will be part of the Trust-wide Eating Disorder Team and will be based in Huntingdon or our clinics in Peterborough or Cambridge. The team provides an outpatient service to children and young people up to the age of 18 who present with an eating disorder and their families / carers. The service also works closely with our day programme, local inpatient units and acute hospital trusts. The post will also involve visiting families within their homes and providing support within our home support pathway, so the post holder will need to be able to travel independently to a range of locations. The post-holder will be offered the opportunity for continued professional development within a well-established multi-disciplinary service. Our service has a strong commitment to professional development through individual supervision, training, appraisal and an ethos of close multi-disciplinary working. The post is a permanent role and full-time hours. We will also consider part time hours. We are committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applicants from all communities to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve, Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence

• and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• Establish a supportive and respectful relationship with peers and other service users.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assist peers and other service users in creating a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) and advanced directives to feed into the CPA process.
• Share and coach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
• Support peers and other service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk.
• Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable peers and other service users to participate in community activities, in order to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles and positive identity.
• Accompany peers and other service users to appointments/meetings of their choice and perform a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery goals.
• Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behaviour towards other multi-disciplinary team members, peers, other service users and carers.
• Have a focus on the rights of peers and other service users at all times.
• Ensure that peers' recovery goals are integrated into the Trust's CPA process and are reviewed on a regular basis, liaising closely with care co-ordinators as necessary.
• Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
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  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 3 Peer Support Worker to work in a dedicated and specialist multi-disciplinary eating disorders service for young people and their families which is part of our CAMH service. We are a compassionate, supportive team, committed to empowering young people and their families so that they can keep well in the community.
We are looking to recruit an individual with lived experience of an eating disorder or has had significant caring responsibilities for someone with an eating disorder, and who is keen to reflect on their own experience, in order to support others in their recovery.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development. To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications., Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services. We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including: + Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people; + Specialist mental health and learning disability services; + Children and young people's mental health services; + Children's community services in Peterborough; + Social care; + Ground-breaking research We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity. CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances. Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country. Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over. If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation. All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.