Job Description

Do you want to work for an established and respected local mental health charity?

Solent Mind is the leading ­mental health charity across Hampshire providing a range of high quality services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and to promote choice and rights to everyone who needs our support. Our services operate in various locations throughout the Hampshire area.

Reference: CRPPJun21

COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PEER PRACTITIONER

Hours: 22.5 Hours Per Week (to include occasional evenings and weekends)

Salary: £19,880 to £21,409 Pro Rata Per Annum

Location: Portsmouth

Closing Date: Wed 30 Jun 2021 (Before 9.00am)

Interview Date: TBC

Are you interested in becoming a Community Rehabilitation Peer Practitioner so you can use your lived experience to help others in their recovery? Would you like the opportunity to deliver peer support to our service users in partnership with Solent NHS Trust Practitioners?

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the form of a Community Rehabilitation Peer Practitioner post.

The post-holder will play an integral role in the recovery pathways of their service users, working with NHS staff to support those who are accessing the Community Intensive Rehabilitation Team (CIRT) to take control of their own recovery. The CIRT is embedded within the Solent NHS mental healthcare system. It sits alongside the Community Mental Health Recovery Teams.

The team work with Portsmouth residents aged over 18, that have complex psychosis and related severe mental health conditions. You will support service users to achieve their goals on their road to recovery, providing practical and emotional support and, crucially, you will have your own lived experience of mental health issues and a recovery journey of your own to share.

It would be advantageous for applicants to have their own lived experience of psychosis and use of mental health services related to the same.

APPLICATIONS ONLY ACCEPTED VIA OUR SOLENT MIND WEBSITE. 

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​CV’s will not be accepted nor do we accept applications from recruitment agencies

Posts may be subject to a relevant DBS check

Solent Mind welcomes applications from all the communities in which we work.

Appointments are made on merit.

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