Notts HC Peer Support Development Team

☀️ Summer Special ☀️

Interested in learning more about and keen to get away from the screen ??

We have two dates available to join us at our head office (Duncan Macmillan House, Porchester Road)

We will cover

🧡 The 8 core principles of peer support
🧡 What Peer support is
🧡 The skills and approaches that are used by peer support workers
🧡look at how peer support roles are being and used within services

Interested? Drop us and email! [email protected]

We have seen a dramatic increase in the standard of applications for peer roles since we have been running this course! If you are interested in becoming a peer- this one’s for you 😉

Super excited to share these latest roles in

A rare opportunity to be part of community south team AND brand new and exciting project well-being and empowerment hub

Use your to and your people and families? The well-being empowerment Hun will be support families on the waiting lists for CAMHS services. Offering and as we create a space to share learning

Have experience of being a ? The new roles are trailblazing the way to supporting carers of the people that use our services. Creating change and a new way of working 💪🏻

You will become part of our incredible community! You will be welcomed on to our 10 day peer support foundation training.

This week we announced the planned time line for the first national apprenticeship ❤️ blazing the way for lives experience roles and creating real opportunities and career pathways for our peers!

Get your applications in!

Celebrating we have
some incredibly amazing carer in our trust who are employed solely to support the carers and family members

This week is week 🧡

We are constantly receiving the message that is good for our and and of course wit absolutely is

But the power comes when we are met with someone who can truly

Listening is actually a real skill. There are so many aspects to what makes up growling seem and heard when we share what’s happening for us

Some top tips to check on when someone is bravely sharing something with us

🧡 Be present

Are you in the moment and tuned in to what is being said? Are you in the moment or trapped in your head?

🧡 Body language

Are you making eye contact? Are you relaxed and leaning in? Are you nodding to show you are hearing and understanding?

🧡 Your why

Why are you listening? The space you hold for someone can be powerful if you are listening to understand and validate feelings rather than give advice or try to fix or solve. Holding space for someone to feel heard and understood is empowering

🧡 Evidence

How do we know when someone is listening to us? We get evidence through feedback- including all@of the above but other ways can be to ask open ending questions, paraphrasing and clarifying

Active listening is a huge part of peer support 🧡 feeling listened to helps us feel part of the world. It’s helps us feel connected, valued and not so alone

While we continue to strive towards people talking we must consciously work towards knowing how to listen 🧡🧡

This week is week. This year the focus is

Loneliness has a huge impact on our mental and physical health

This week is a time to reflect and unpack our own experiences with loneliness as well as think about what loneliness is and how we can individually and collectively work towards feeling less lonely and knowing what tools and resources support us to do that 🧰 🧡

couldn’t be more applicable for peer support because that’s the heart and soul of the work we do- we are expert by experience and draw upon that loved experience to offer a safe space to listen without judgment and inspire hope 🧡🧡

🤩 this year we have had so much interest in our Online Introduction to Peer Support Course we have had to create extra dates AND put on bespoke courses for different services and organisations 😍

What benefits has this had?

🧡 It’s dramatically increased the standard of applications that we have received as those that have attended gained a real understanding of what it means to be a peer and what makes the role so powerful and unique

🧡 It’s helped us raise awareness of peer support- the benefits of having peers in multidisciplinary teams and how the skills and values support both the people we work with and the teams that we sit within

If you want to come along drop us an email and we will send you more information [email protected]

So proud and excited for one of our amazing Pert Support Workers! has been awarded the 2022 travel scholarship and is heading over to the USA to research services 🥹

Such an achievement and huge contribution towards our efforts to pave the way for career progression in !

Follow Ell’s journey 🧡🧡

Could you be a ?

Peer support workers are valued members of our multi-disciplinary teams in our mental health services. They are holding pace for the people they support to feel seen and heard

and are powerful ways for us to feel connected to others and can inspire hope ♥️ and promote and

Peer support is one part of a very big and unique puzzle 🧩

To learn more about Peer support come along to our free online introduction to peer support course or drop us an email

We are looking for a to@come and join our amazing team 🧡

A unique opportunity to be part of a small but mighty team. Peer support development workers are responsible for the recruitment, supervision, training and ongoing development for peers accords the trust.

It’s a real@interesting and Bernie’s job with lots of and building connections across the trust and beyond

We have peers across our services services and we have recently worked in collaboration with and currently with 😍! We have strengthened our relationships with and have successfully delivered introduction to peer support training to students! We are working on the very first peer support too!

It’s a role where you can really get creative and bring ideas to life as well and support the development of a unique and powerful role within services ♥️

Inbox 📧 is always open for any questions or queries 🤩

Our online introduction to course has been going down a storm recently 🧡

If you would like to find out more about peer support it’s the perfect opportunity