Co-Production & Engagement Peer Support worker, CYPMHS

You will be a member of the CAMHS Co-Production and Engagement Team, working to support young people's voices to be heard to improve services.

Advocate for the views and interests of clients, when requested, while accessing other local community and statutory services.

Use your lived experience in all appropriate situations, including to build rapport with clients and address the stigma of mental health challenges with colleagues.

Act as a mentor and role model the ability to have a meaningful life for clients.

Build relationships with the local community and statutory services and connect clients to those resources.

Input client notes and progress on the Trust's electronic patient records system.

Lead on co-production of the service.

Lead on service evaluation and improving outcomes for young people.

Through sharing the wisdom from your own lived experience, inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities to connect with their local communities.

The Peer support will work with the Co-production/Engagement Team in line with service needs and will take a lead role in embedding co-production practice within the service setting.

Main duties of the job

Promote the EBYE role through the provision of information and a range of learning opportunities for the multi-disciplinary team and others across the Trust.

Promote embedding recovery values within the service and act as an ambassador of the Enablement principles with external agencies and partner organisations.

Engage in co-production activities or projects and support clients to engage in co-production within service development.

Promote recovery best practice and role model jargon-free and medical-free language across the Trust.

Contribute to the ongoing development of the Peer workforce.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.

We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working as part of CAMHS to improve the experience of Children & Young People presenting in mental health crisis.
• Facilitating service user participation within the Quality Improvement project, alongside the project leads, including recruitment and engagement of young people and families.

Communication

• Maintaining high standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the BPS and Trust policies and procedures.

Role may involve working within a ward or within the community supporting service users as outlined above.

Frequently providing support to colleagues in managing challenging service users in what can be sometimes distressing circumstances.

The post holder may be required to work flexible hours as required by service need.

The post holder may be required to work in different locations as required by service need.

• Ensuring day-to-day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety, and service user experience.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Completed BEH Peer Support training or equivalent. NVQ Level IV in care or equivalent OR Previous experience working in a mental health setting as a Peer worker or similar.
• Further postgraduate training in relevant area of professional psychology, mental health practice, and/or research design and analysis.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities. Experience of working with children and adolescents with mental health problems. Experience of audit/research and data analysis.
• Experience of paid work in direct care provision. Experience of co-production. Experience of using QI methodology. Experience of supporting group interventions with children and adolescents with mental health problems.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• High-level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive. Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance. An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities. An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
• Experience of audit and data systems (RIO, EXCEL, SPSS). High standard of report writing. Experience of writing audit reports and reports within child and adolescent mental health services.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• A positive approach to working with children, adolescents, and families. Ability to work as part of a team and independently. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience of group work. Willingness to work flexibly. An awareness of own strengths and limitations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£31,081 to £33,665 a year Per Annum pro rata including Outer London Allowance