Job Description

Due to internal promotion we have an exciting opportunity within Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for a person with lived experience of Mental Health conditions to use their experience to support others as a Peer Support Worker within the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Team, who support service users in the community with their employment goals.



You will provide support to individuals within the service by role modelling and using your lived experience to support service users in their recovery and employment journey.



Service users will be seen mainly in defined localities within Lincolnshire but cover for other geographical areas covered by the Trust may be required if the need arises.



To act as a role model to service users and their carers to inspire hope that recovery is possible.



To share life experiences and lessons learnt as a person in recovery.



To share your own and other examples of lived experience of recovery.



To support service users to identify and access meaningful activities in the community



To empower service users to create a supportive network.



To use a number of agreed recovery tools e.g. SMART goals in a flexible way to support the service user.



To support the service user to communicate or involve mental health professionals and wider support network.



To promote service user involvement in all aspects of their work.



To use peer experience to co-facilitate groups and training to service users and/or staff members



Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.



You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!



We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.



This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.



Please view the attached and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.



We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:



Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy Competitive annual leave allowance Car leasing scheme NHS pension scheme Free eye tests Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.