Peer Support Worker

We are looking for a Peer Support worker to cover the East Surrey perinatal mental health team. The Perinatal Mental Health Service can offer you great job satisfaction, working within an established leadership team with highly motivated colleagues where the wellbeing of families is at the heart of everything we do.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey. Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience, the Peer Support worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, they facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an expanding service and to help shape the future of perinatal mental health care in Surrey. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team with extensive training opportunities along with regular supervision and reflective practice. The ability to work across Surrey is essential and a car is required.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide one-to-one support for women in the antenatal and post-natal period, from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user.
• To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience as appropriate, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users.
• To empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received. We look forward to receiving your application!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vimbai Matemba Job title: Service Manager Email address: vimbai.matemba@sabp.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07768 926932