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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 Grantham and surrounding areas (Bourne, Stamford).

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.

If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Abbie Futter (CAMHS Peer Support Lead) 01522 535189.

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 (i.e. when their child is transitioning out of, or across, 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 parent/carers to identify and access support within their local community.

Working for our organisation

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.