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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

About

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT).

Since then, EPUT has grown from strength to strength, providing many community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Luton and Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk.

We are a large employer in the East of England with more than 5,500 staff working across more than 200 sites. We also provide services in people’s home and community settings.

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

We Care
We Learn
We Empower

Our strategic objectives

We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
We will help our communities to thrive.

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; The Lodge; The Chase; Wickford; Essex; SS11 7XX
Contact Number: 01375 364513

Find out more

Jobs Website

Open

Ref: 364-A-8500 Vacancy ID: 6846301

Peer Support Team Lead (CAMHS & Specialist)

Accepting applications until: 17-Dec-2024 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 17-Dec-2024 23:59

Location

Site: St Aubyn Centre
Address: Boxted Road
Town: Colchester
Postcode: CO4 5HG
Major / Minor Region: Essex

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Mental Health

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

We Care
We Learn
We Empower

Our strategic objectives

We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

Mental Health Services
Community Health Services
Learning Disabilities Services
Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To support and supervise peer specialists within the service, including identifying support and training needs and carrying out regular supervision sessions.
To work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for the development of the service, to improve service user experiences and outcomes.
To work with the service manager and ward staff to monitor and adapt delivery according to localised needs and feedback from staff and service users.
To work directly with service users with mental health issues to offer support, validation, and encouragement, predominantly face-to-face, but using other methods of communication too.
To model and support peer workers to maintain their own wellbeing and balance this with the role requirements.
To work with the Ward Manager and Service Manager to monitor day-to-day operations and staffing.
To carry out annual appraisal of direct report/s in line with trust policy.
To support and encourage service users to identify their own strengths, triggers, and life goals and how they can be achieved.
To work with service users to identify longer-term support needs and potential barriers, including referrals to and negotiation with other agencies where appropriate.
To provide service users with tools and coping strategies to maintain their wellbeing.
To share and use your lived experience in an appropriate way, to offer understanding, support and hope to service users.
Work with service users to plan group activities.
Participate in service monitoring, evaluation, and reflection in line with the trust guidelines and support service users to take part.
To ensure attendance at relevant meetings.
To help adhere to and support the development of relevant procedures and guidelines which relate to peer support and the service.
To develop relationships and partnership working with key local organisations and providers.
To complete and understand risk assessments and procedures as appropriate and ensure that other staff follow process.
Maintain appropriate records of attendance and progress.
To contribute to the ongoing development of the service and to best practice.
To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both mental health and Primary Care Services.
All employees have a duty and responsibility for their own health and safety and the health of safety of colleagues, patients, and the public.
All employees have a responsibility to prevent abuse and neglect and report concerns.
All employees have a responsibility and a legal obligation to ensure that information processed for both patients and staff is kept accurate, confidential, secure and in line with current Data Protection legislation and Security and Confidentiality Policies.

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing [email protected].

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

Specialist peer support certification in line with NHS-E’s peer support competency framework
Educated to bachelor’s degree, Level 4 diploma, or equivalent.
Experience of accessing a healthcare service and constructively identifying an improvement opportunity

Desirable criteria

Work experience in a complex casework, healthcare or other service delivery environment

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working as a peer supporter in CAMHS of Secure services
Lived experience of being a patient / service user / family or carer / of CAMHS of Secure services