Peer Practitioner

Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce an exciting job opportunity. The North Yorkshire & York Perinatal serviceare looking for a Peer Practitioner to join their team. The successful candidate will work across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.

The perinatal service provides community-based support to women and birthing people who are experiencing mental health difficulties:

during pregnancy

in the first year after they have had their baby

Peer support can be described as when people with shared experiences connect to build relationships that are, These are challenging but rewarding roles supporting people with a wide range of experiences., Your time in post will start with attending our peer support training. This will be alongside other people starting peer support roles. The training is delivered by people with their own lived experience of mental health challenges. They also have direct experience of working in peer roles.

From there your work will involve:

providing 1:1 peer support to people accessing the service - this may involve supporting family / carers too

setting up and facilitating / co-facilitating peer support groups

working into team meetings to support service user's voices to be heard and bring lived experience expertise into team processes

supporting service development within the teams you work in

building connections with a range of people and organisations - including other peer support workers / providers

To support you with this work you will receive ongoing regular one to one and group supervision. You will be able to access a range of other peer connection and development structures.

people who have experience of mental health challenges

people who have experience of accessing services for mental health care

employed, trained and supported to work to the TEWV Peer Support Values and use their experiences to support others., relevant experience of mental health challenges - for example, lived experience of mental health difficulties during pregnancy and after birth

personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient mental health services

personal experience of using your lived experience to support others

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.