Peer Mentor Coordinator
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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
To work with the Multidisciplinary specialist drug team , providing relapse prevention workshop and Groups, support the outreach rough sleepers service , contribute in the naloxone distribution and further pilots, work closely with the pharmacists community partner`s in the distribution of needle exchange and hostels
Main duties of the job
-To provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning for service users who meet the Rough Sleepers initiative criteria
-To provide specialist advice in relation to recovery to service users and actively encourage them to make positive changes to their lives
-To be involved in developing the Co-production service and take a lead in recruiting volunteers to support service development.
-To support the day to day running of the Rough sleeper's outreach and assist service users to optimise support as well as fast tracking within the system .
-To assist the running of Harm Reduction workshops within Hostels and at the Grove Drug service . Assist with Naloxone distribution among the Hostels and service user`s .
-To assist needle exchange provisions within the community pharmacies and at the Grove.
- To maintain clear and concise documentation as required
- Seek to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with service
users, relatives, carers, colleagues and other disciplines.
-Ensure effective and confidential communication between professionals and
service users.
-Observe and report any concerns regarding service users to the nominated
professional.
- To ensure that any risk issues identified with service users are flagged up to
the Manager.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
-To provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning for service users who meet the Rough Sleepers initiative criteria
-To provide specialist advice in relation to recovery to service users and actively encourage them to make positive changes to their lives
-To be involved in developing the Co-production service and take a lead in recruiting volunteers to support service development.
-To support the day to day running of the Rough sleeper's outreach and assist service users to optimise support as well as fast tracking within the system .
-To assist the running of Harm Reduction workshops within Hostels and at the Grove Drug service . Assist with Naloxone distribution among the Hostels and service user`s .
-To assist needle exchange provisions within the community pharmacies and at the Grove.
- To maintain clear and concise documentation as required
- Seek to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with service
users, relatives, carers, colleagues and other disciplines.
-Ensure effective and confidential communication between professionals and
service users.
-Observe and report any concerns regarding service users to the nominated
professional.
- To ensure that any risk issues identified with service users are flagged up to
the Manager.
-To observe and report potential and actual hazards in any clients you work with to your Manager and senior colleagues and initiate "common sense" measures to alleviate these when necessary
-To liaise with the manager and senior colleagues to ensure that Policies and
Procedures are adhered to
- Maintain confidentiality about any information concerning service users or colleagues that is of a confidential nature.
-To participate in the Rough Sleepers and Clinical Team Meetings.
- Ensuring that all Trust and team
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Peer mentor qualification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of recent study
- Substance misuse and Recovery awareness
Essential
Essential criteria
- Awareness of patient care within the wider context of the organisation, in particular around health inequalities • Have an understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement • Awareness of treatment outcomes, recovery tools, care planning, assessment of risk • Have an understanding of equal opportunities, diversity and anti discriminatory practice
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the roles within the multi-professional team
skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the roles within the multi-professional team
Desirable criteria
- Report writing skills • Group facilitation skills
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
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