Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is seeking a part-time Peer Support
Facilitator with lived experience of postpartum psychosis (PP) to manage an
innovative collaborative project with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS
Foundation Trust, providing peer support to inpatients at Andersen Ward Mother and
Baby Unit (MBU) in Wythenshawe, supporting their transition home and building a team
of regional volunteers who have recovered from PP. APP is also seeking casual peer
support workers to work in the Manchester and wider northwest regions.
OVERVIEW OF THE PEER SUPPORT FACILITATOR ROLE
APP is seeking a part-time Peer Support Facilitator (0.6 FTE) with lived experience of
postpartum psychosis to manage an innovative collaborative project with Greater
Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
At the Mother and Baby Unit, you will support women, one-to-one and through small
group activities. You will also spend time talking to partners and families of women
during the acute illness phase and signposting to APP’s online support, community
forum, and information.
In addition, you will spend part of your working week supporting the transition to home
for newly discharged women. You will arrange a monthly group for recovering and
recovered women with experience of PP in the region.
You will have experienced postpartum psychosis yourself, and use your experience to
offer peer support, information and signposting to women and families affected by
postpartum psychosis. You will build and manage a team of regional volunteers who
have recovered from PP, as well as help to manage data collection and evaluation of the
project and manage the workload of sessional workers who will cover your annual leave.
Your excellent interpersonal skills, understanding of postpartum psychosis, knowledge of
the principles of peer support; and experience of supporting others will help APP improve
recovery outcomes for women, partners and families connected in and around Greater
Manchester.
CASUAL PEER SUPPORT WORKER(S)
APP is also seeking a casual peer support worker or workers with lived experience of
postpartum psychosis (PP) to provide peer support to women and families affected by
postpartum psychosis at Andersen Ward and during their transition home. The casual
peer support worker(s) will provide peer support to women and families affected by
postpartum psychosis; help to run a monthly café group; support volunteers; and
participate in awareness raising activities, regional perinatal events/networks, and health
professional training. If you have excellent interpersonal skills, in depth understanding
of postpartum psychosis, knowledge of the principles of peer support, and experience of
supporting others as a volunteer or worker we would love to hear from you.
APP’s Manchester project will have close links with our Lancashire & South Cumbria
project. APP provides peer support to Ribblemere MBU (Chorley) and to community
perinatal teams. Casual peer support workers may have opportunities to work on the
partnership project with Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust as well as the Manchester project.
APP is the national charity providing support and information to mums and families
affected by Postpartum Psychosis (PP). PP is a severe form of postnatal mental illness that develops, often out of the blue, in the days and weeks following childbirth. APP
works with women, families, academics and specialist clinicians to: raise awareness of
PP; develop information; train health professionals; facilitate research; and run an
award-winning specialist peer support service.
Action on Postpartum Psychosis is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
Based on the experience required to effectively deliver the work, these roles are only
open to female applicants; we are relying on a protected characteristic as a genuine
occupational requirement as permitted under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act
2010.
PEER SUPPORT FACILITATOR
Location: Andersen Ward MBU in Wythenshawe and home-based working, with travel
around the region when required.
£25-28k pro rata, depending on experience.
Part-time, 3 days a week (Fixed term contract).
For more information, please see the applicant information pack.
CASUAL PEER SUPPORT WORKERS
Location: Andersen Ward MBU in Wythenshawe and home-based working, with travel
around the region when required. Potential travel across the Lancashire & South Cumbria region if working across both APP partnership projects.
Hourly rate: £15.32 per hour plus statutory holiday pay.
Hours: This is a casual role: hours will vary according to need and will be agreed in advance. We expect hours available for work by each casual peer support worker to
normally be seven or fewer each week.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send a CV and covering letter (no more than two pages of A4) to jobs@app-
network.org, together with the contact details and equality and diversity monitoring form
that you can download below. The contact details form contains your consent for us to
process your application and must be included.
Application deadline: midnight on 10th April 2023
It is anticipated interviews will be held on 21st and 25th April at Wythenshawe hospital.
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