The post-holder will support people before, during and after discharge from DPT Acute Mental Health wards and will: - Understand the difficulties associated with having complex emotional needs and being in hospital - Confidently draw on your own lived experience of complex emotional needs using peer support principles to support others in their recovery - Build a relationship with the person using services based on empathy, reciprocity, mutuality and respect. - Work alongside the Band 7 clinical Complex Emotional Needs change practitioner to support clinical protocols and evaluate the success of these including the patient experience. - Support any other psychological intervention training/ therapy provision by ensuring the lived experience voice is integrated into design, delivery and evaluation. - Work alongside the person you are working with to help them feel supported, safe and connected to community resources/other networks of their choice. - Build connections with chosen carers as agreed with person you are working with and support and signpost chosen carers as set out in the discharge programme. - As a new Trust initiative, the Senior Peer Support Worker will be expected to use their own judgement, in planning the delivery and evaluation of the Complex Emotional Needs project.
