Peer Support Worker | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

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. 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 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.,

• 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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  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.