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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
364-A-8344-A
Employer
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sankey House
Town
Pitsea
Salary
拢26,530 - 拢29,114 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust logo

ARMS Peer Support Workers

Band 4

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

  • We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
  • We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

鈥淭o be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care鈥.

Our Purpose

鈥淲e care for people every day. What we do together, matters鈥.

Our Values

  • We Care
  • We Learn
  • We Empower

Our strategic objectives

  • We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
  • We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
  • We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
  • We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Community Health Services
  • Learning Disabilities Services
  • Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Job overview

At Risk Mental State (ARMS) Peer Support Worker

Band 4听

22.5 hours per week听

Permanent Contract

UK driving licence and access to a car is essential for this role听

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of this role is to support service users to establish greater control over their lives, helping to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognizing that each individual鈥檚 recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.

As an integral and valued member of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team working in Essex, you will provide support to individuals within the service by role modelling and using your lived experience to support service users and guide the service in being more person centered.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the role and the essential requirements please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.听

Please note this advertisement may close early should a sufficient number of applications be received.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Level of educational attainment to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
  • Completion of own Wellness Recovery Action Plan ( WRAP) or whole life plan
Desirable criteria
  • Willingness to undertake further training in line with the development of peer support
  • Related Health or Social care qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience of working in a Peer Support Worker role.
  • Lived Experience of mental health challenges, recovery and wellness planning.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alex Marn
Job title
TBC
Email address
[email protected]