Peer Facilitators

Overview

If you have experience working as a peer and want to develop your skills while championing the importance of lived experience, we invite you to join our innovative Early Intervention service as a Senior Peer Facilitator.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership and support to peer facilitators and wider teams in the design and delivery of the peer workforce agenda.
• Support colleagues in the recruitment, training and supervision of peer facilitators.
• Support the co‑production and co‑delivery of health, wellbeing and social opportunities that promote personal recovery.
• Support the development of standards and networks for peer workforce roles throughout LSCFT.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure inclusive access to recovery‑focused opportunities that empower our service users to gain control and hope for their health and wellbeing.
• Support the development of the Library of Lived Experience to engage staff and service users while championing the innovative power of learning from lived experience.
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, discussing multi‑stranded and delicate issues and overcoming barriers to understanding with service users who have complex mental health needs.
• Work in close collaboration with the clinical team, service users, colleagues and other professionals, ensuring good clear lines of communication, both written and verbal, are adhered to.
• Contribute to care/recovery plans for individual service users.
• Assist service users to identify and set goals to enable recovery.
• Assist staff in identifying alternative ways of working that are conducive to recovery, lending unique insight into mental illness and what makes recovery possible.
• Establish supportive relationships with service users, enabling them to maximise their own resources to improve their quality of life.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers, visitors, colleagues, third‑sector organisations and other professionals.
• Promote awareness and understanding of the peer role.

Qualifications

• Good level of secondary education in Maths and English at GCSE grade C/5 or above, or equivalent.
• Level 3 Peer Worker Apprenticeship or a relative qualification, or a commitment to work towards Level 3 Peer Worker Apprenticeship.
• Lived experience of mental health illness and experience of accessing secondary care services.
• Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
• Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users.
• Practical knowledge of recovery, peer support and co‑production/involvement.
• Awareness of treatment outcomes, recovery tools, care planning and assessment of risk.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 amended 2007.
• Experience of working in a mental health peer support or facilitation role.
• Ability to maintain boundaries and form a positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers.
• Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities.
• Experience liaising with other agencies and partners.
• Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems and their carers.
• Ability to work closely and form good working relationships with a wide range of people.
• Where applicable, ability to meet the mobility requirements of the post.
• Ability to travel across a geographical area and various locations within the trust footprint.

Benefits

• Flexible working patterns including term‑time, part‑time, compressed hours and flexi‑time.
• Access to a wide range of wellbeing resources and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Equality & Diversity

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, belief or sexual orientation, and particularly encourage applications from under‑represented groups.

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