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Key Relationships:
Service users, Care Coordinators, Managers, ELFT Trust staff, other agencies and visitors to the Team.

Individual 1:1 peer support, working with referred patients for up to 12 sessions in pre-agreed Recovery orientated sessions.

• Service users will be referred by care co-ordinators, nurses and consultants.
• line managed by host service.

PSWs will need to have satisfactory DBS assessment. They will need to have completed the accredited ELFT PSW training. They will also need to fulfil the personal specification.

The PSW will incur expenses in their role. Some expenses (going for a coffee for a service user etc) will be limited to any expenses the PSW incurs for their own consumption (service users must pay for their own) and limited to £5 per engagement.

To work as an integral and highly valued member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team in facilitating leading client centered activities which inspire hope, control and opportunity for services users.

To support individuals in identifying personal recovery goals to improve the service users' quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.

To assist individuals in managing their mental health on a day to day basis as agreed in their long term recovery care including providing support with activities of daily living such as care of self, budgeting, caring for their home and leisure activities.

To support service users to direct their own Recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with the team to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.

To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals and support them to access and participate in activities which meet these whilst demonstrating acceptance of and respect towards service users' personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.

To promote and support service users to maintain and/or develop positive relationships with those within their community and learn how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.

To positively promote and support inter-dependent living with their community through developing and maintain extensive knowledge and links within Beds/Luton and wider areas and/or in the area the individual service users wish to return to and actively supporting them to access these resources including acting as an escort, e.g. in relation to vocation, education and leisure.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

We are delighted to advertise opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to work within the Bedford Community Mental Health Service.

The successful candidate will be working alongside Nurses, occupational Therapists and Social workers in the Bedford Unise Community Mental Health Team - providing care, support and treatment for adults with complex, long term Mental Health disorders.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

For more information please contact Kevind Ramkelawon on 07900167270.