CYP Parent/Carer Peer Support Worker

Job overview

Are you a parent who has lived experience of supporting your child through mental health services as an adolescent? Do you want to use your lived experience to help other parent/carers?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated individual with this lived experience to join our award winning CYP Peer Support team covering Boston and surrounding areas (Skegness, Spalding).

Parent/carer peer support workers (PSWs) provide emotional support and practical assistance to parent/carers with a child a currently open to CYP Mental Health Services. Through drawing from and sharing their own experiences, a parent/carer PSW will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible, and support families to feel hopeful about the future.

Recognising the pivotal role parent/carers play in supporting their child’s mental health, and the emotional impact of caring for a child experiencing emotional distress, this role involves providing a listening ear, exploring parental wellbeing, and supporting parent/carers to access support in their local community.

As this role will involve working across different teams in CYP services (Healthy Minds, Mental Health Support Teams, CAMHS) and supporting service user participation, we are looking for individuals with good communication skills and a passion for co-producing and improving mental health services.

Main duties of the job

• To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
• Act as a role model, showing a professional and caring attitude toward children, young people and families, and other professionals and colleagues.
• Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with parent/carers and children, young people in an appropriate and supportive manner.
• Where appropriate, to provide guidance and practical support to parent/carers to better enable them to support their child/young person’s plan of care/treatment.
• Recognising the emotional impact of caring for somebody experiencing significant distress, provide emotional support and listening ear for parent/carers.
• Provide lived experience perspective through participating in parent/carer therapy groups, helping parent/carers believe they are not alone and that change is possible.
• Developing and co-facilitating parent/carer groups, including parent peer support groups (likely to be out of 9-5 hours).
• Guiding parent/carers through periods of transition across and/or services.

In line with the Triangle of Care initiative, support enhanced communication and collaboration between parents/carers and mental health professionals, and ensure that parent/carers have all the right information to support the recovery of their child/young person. Support parents/carers to identify and access support within their local community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post. If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Abbie Futter (CAMHS Peer Support and Involvement Lead)  01522 535189.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

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
• Childcare Vouchers
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

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