Recovery and Connect Lived Experience Practitioner
We’re looking for a Recovery and Connect Lived Experience Practitioner to join the team.
Position: Recovery and Connect Lived Experience Practitioner
Location: Surrey (Leatherhead base location)
Hours: 37h per week
Salary: £28,135 (per annum)
Contract: 12-month fixed term
Benefits: Pension, Employee Assistance Programme
Closing Date: 13 April 2025 with interviews week commencing 14 April 2025
The Project
Recovery & Connect is a project delivered in partnership with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, within the HOMEFirst alliance. Recovery & Connect works intensively with individuals who have pre-existing mental health issues and complex mental health needs, to support them in accessing community services and enable them to live well at home.
Recovery & Connect Workers are closely aligned to HOMEFirst – a multi-agency alliance who work together to develop personalised care plans and enhance the community support given to individuals, with the aims to prevent future deterioration in their mental health and avoid the need for in-patient hospital admission. Many of the people HOMEFirst support have experiences of psychosis and a history of trauma.
The Role
Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, the Lived Experience Practitioner will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. As an integral and highly valued member of the team, the Lived Experience Practitioner will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to people using the service, to help individuals regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey. In particular, the Lived Experience Practitioner will support the smooth transition of people using the service to other mental health services. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
Here’s a quote from a fellow colleague that explains why they love their role:
“My job makes lives better by utilising my lived experience of mental health, or of caring for somebody who has mental health issues, in a Peer Support role. I contribute to the care and recovery of people accessing HOMEFirst enhanced community support, alongside Recovery and Connect Workers and helping to ensure an accessible, non-stigmatising and localised service”.
About You
You will have:
• Lived experience of mental health issues or caring for somebody who has mental health problems.
• Experience of accessing primary and/or secondary care services (e.g. GP, talking therapies, community mental health teams) and/or crisis services.
• Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.
• Paid or unpaid experience of working in a lived experience/peer support worker role.
• Numeracy and Literacy at Key Stage 3 level or equivalent.
About the Organisation
The charity is a mental health and emotional wellbeing charity, supporting Surrey residents since 1994 in Banstead, Elmbridge, Epsom & Ewell and Mole Valley.
Offering a variety of face-to-face and online services, available to adults (aged 16+) living in Surrey who would like to restore and/or maintain their mental and emotional wellbeing (no diagnosis needed). The services are free of charge, with no waiting list and no time limit.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, and the successful completion of a probationary period.
This post is Exempt from the Protection of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974).
You may also have experience in areas such as Mental Health, Mental Health Support Worker, Mental Health Carer, Mental Health Case Worker, Mental Health Outreach Worker, Care Worker, Social Care. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
