This Peer Coordinator post sits within the Community Mental Health Teams at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The postholder leads and supervises the CMHT Peer Support Team across all localities, including recruitment and wellbeing. What sets it apart is that it draws on the postholder's own experience of mental health difficulties and recovery. A Level 4 Peer Support qualification, or a commitment to work towards it, is required.
What the job involves
- Provide day-to-day leadership, support and supervision to Peer Support Workers
- Support the recruitment, induction, development and wellbeing of Peer Support Workers
- Ensure consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities
- Promote recovery, empowerment and person-centred approaches to care
- Help develop and improve peer support services, so lived experience is heard and valued
- Use personal experience to give hope, empathy and a practical perspective through support, dialogue and role modelling
What’s required
Qualifications
- Level 4 Peer Support accredited training or commitment to work towards it
- GCSEs or equivalent qualifications, or agreed equivalent experience
- Knowledge of working with people
- Excellent understanding of peer support
- Commitment to continual personal development
Experience
- Lived experience of managing mental ill health and recovery, including accessing secondary mental health services
- Leadership skills, motivational techniques and experience to lead a team
- Evidence of teamworking and constructive working relationships with colleagues
- Experience of supporting, mentoring, supervising or leading others
- Ability to support others in a recovery-orientated way
Skills & knowledge
- Able to use lived experience safely, effectively and appropriately to support others and inform service development
- Understanding of recovery-focused principles and how they influence support
- Understanding of the impact of stigma and discrimination
- Good knowledge of mental health problems
- Basic working knowledge of NHS and mental health service provisionClear, effective planning and decision-making skills
Nice to have
- Training for lived experience practitioners or further related training
- Health-related qualification or Recovery College qualification
- Contribution to a research project or audit
- Collaborative working with professionals in statutory or non-statutory mental health services
- Group work intervention experience
- Working with statutory and non-statutory agencies
- Knowledge of interventions for social and health care needs, such as therapies, ECT, medication and recovery education
- Understanding of service user involvement and participation and why it matters
What’s offered
- Flexible working requests can be discussed as part of the interview process
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
