Peer Practitioner - Peer supported Open Dialogue

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Practitioner (PSP) to facilitate the ongoing development of the Peer Supported Open Dialogue service (POD) within KMPT, the only stand-alone NHS Open Dialogue service in the UK.

This post offers an excellent opportunity to work in mental health services during a time of exciting change, where a more collaborative, power-balanced approach to care is sought, prioritizing the voice of those at the center of concern.

Peer Supported Open Dialogue (POD) is a community-based and integrated way of engaging with families, or a person’s social network, from the very start of seeking help, within 24 hours of crisis. It is based on the principles of Open Dialogue.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Practitioner (PSP) will provide formalized peer support and practical assistance to service users to promote choice and work with them to regain control over their lives.

This role will involve working with service users one-on-one as well as with other clinicians depending on the need. Helping to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value, and purpose, recognizing that each individual's recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process. Within a relationship of reciprocity, they will journey with service users to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for the fulfillment of individually identified goals, working with people towards gaining greater independence and managing their own health and well-being.

Within this position, you will be part of a dynamic team promoting POD and co-facilitating training sessions for others. Your responsibilities will involve working alongside POD-trained staff and trainees, integrating this new care model throughout KMPT and beyond.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England, where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard, and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognized as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day:

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.

Our vision is where we want to be in the future:

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Emma Hogwood
Job title: Team manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01227812044