Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well‑being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long‑term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
To work as a member of a multi‑disciplinary specialist perinatal community mental health team offering a comprehensive perinatal mental health service, partners of service users experiencing mental health difficulties and their families in the perinatal period.
To participate in the development and maintenance of a quality region‑wide perinatal service through effective collaboration, liaison and prioritisation with statutory and non‑statutory organisations.
Contribution to building up local care networks for mothers and their family.
The role of the Peer Support worker is to 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. To 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.
The post holder will be responsible for providing short‑term support to vulnerable individuals and for working closely with the service user, their partner and family to prioritise need and plan actions to address the identified needs. This may include supporting an individual to make a referral to a specific service and supporting the individual to attend the initial appointment with that service.
Main duties of the job
NL&SC SPCMHT covers a vast footprint including Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre, Lancaster and South Cumbria.
The role of the perinatal peer support worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery in the perinatal period. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible to the service users we work with. Peer support workers provide invaluable support to service users and their partners navigating mental health systems.
Working for our organisation
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 (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under‑represented groups.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Lived experience of mental health issues during the perinatal period
- Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
- Experience of accessing support services and an understanding of how these experiences affected you.
Knowledge
- An understanding of perinatal mental health services.
- Awareness of a range of vulnerabilities and the impact of vulnerabilities on individuals in the perinatal period.
- Well‑developed verbal and written communication skills.
Experience
- Experience of perinatal services
- Experience of following or supporting the implementation of personalised care plans.
- Experience of individual and group work.
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