Peer Support Worker

Where the term "service users" is used, this includes individual service users, people with lived experience, their family members and carers.

COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

To acknowledge and work to the key principles for providing peer support (Mutuality, Reciprocity, Non-Directive, Strengths-based, Progressive, Inclusive, Recovery-Focused, and Safe)

Be aware the emotional context, staying calm and being clear, consistent and reliable. Ensuring that the approach with colleagues, and service users is balanced and fair.

To work with multi-disciplinary teams to support service users access additional services and teams within the inpatient setting to better meet their needs where possible.

To accept and respect service users personal beliefs, uniqueness and identities. Working and communicating in a way that acknowledges the personal social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.

To be aware of, teach others and challenge issues in relation to stigma, low expectations and anti-discriminatory practice as appropriate.

To attend multidisciplinary team and other meetings as appropriate, and champion a recovery and holistic approach to care. To actively participate in regular supervision and be willing to reflect on interpersonal dynamics.

To be trauma-informed, and be an ambassador for trauma informed care

CARING RESPONSIBLITIES

To support service users to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with teams, and where possible, carers, to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.

To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals, and support them to access and participate in activities which meet these, whilst demonstrating acceptance of and respect towards service users' personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.

To support service users to maintain and/or develop positive relationships with others and learn how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.

To provide support to service users in the community and maintain continuity of contact if they are an inpatient, as appropriate to the role.

To facilitate the individual to move through and beyond community services.

To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience.

To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with multidisciplinary teams.

To accompany service users to appointments, therapeutic or social, and community-based activities, as appropriate.

To work with their allocated service users as they. navigate inpatient services to assist recovery.

To assist service users to integrate into the service and local area and support them to access information on health promotion, mental and physical wellbeing where possible.

To assist the service user to understand their rights and choices within the services in which they participate.

To offer transitional support and aid navigation for Peers and Carers to access EPUT, third sector providers and community resources as the need dictates where possible.

To work with the family and carer ambassadors where possible to have a holistic approach to peer support for services users and their families / carers.

To promote opportunities for peer support and Lived experience in other areas of inpatient services.

To be an ambassador for lived experience across inpatient services.

RISK MANAGEMENT

To manage and work effectively in line with Trust risk policies and procedures, whilst supporting an individual's recovery.

To ensure any observed concerns regarding an individual's wellbeing, including any issues of safeguarding, are raised with the team at the earliest opportunity.

To report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to management immediately.

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