Film: Peer Workers in Acute Settings: Nottingham
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust http://play.buto.tv/pqkCC
Peer Workers in Acute Settings: Dorset WaRP
Dorset Wellbeing and Recovery Partnership http://play.buto.tv/m7FYh
Peer Workers in Acute Settings: CPFT
Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust http://play.buto.tv/VM7fP
7. Peer Support Workers: a practical guide to implementation
Peer support is based on offering and receiving help based on shared understanding, respect and mutual empowerment. Whether paid or voluntary and working in statutory, private or independent services, peer support workershave a valuable role to play. The introduction of people with lived experience of mental health problems into the mental health workforce is a … Continue reading 7. Peer Support Workers: a practical guide to implementation
5. Peer Support Workers: Theory and Practice
Using peer support workers to support the recovery of people with mental illness can add significant value to mental health services, sometimes at no extra cost, according to new research published today. This paper sets out the spectrum for peer support in mental health services, which can range from naturally occurring through to formal employment … Continue reading 5. Peer Support Workers: Theory and Practice
Peer Worker Critical Debate – What is the Role of Peer Support?
On the 1st June 207 ImROC held the Peer Worker Critical Debate: What is the Role of Peer Support ? at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This debate was arranged as a growing number of organisations are demonstrating the value they place on lived experience through introducing, developing and sustaining peer roles strategically across their services and … Continue reading Peer Worker Critical Debate – What is the Role of Peer Support?
Develop, Embed and Sustain your Peer Workforce
What is peer support? Peer support is about people who have similar experiences coming together to offer and receive help based on a shared understanding. This occurs quite naturally in all walks as life and is often helpful, reassuring and motivating. In mental health services, the extra-ordinary value of peer to peer relationships has been … Continue reading Develop, Embed and Sustain your Peer Workforce
ImROC Peer Worker Critical Debate, June 2016
Should peer support workers be trained in ‘Management of violence and Aggression’ and be expected to play a role in restraint? Should peer support workers be expected to work shifts? Supporting peer workers to use social media responsibly Achieving a critical mass of peer support workers in a service Should peer support workers also offer … Continue reading ImROC Peer Worker Critical Debate, June 2016
A strategic approach to Recovery
We are proud to have: Facilitated the development of 800+ Peer Support workers. Peer Support Workers are people with lived experience recruited, trained, placed, and supported, employed in local mental health services Helped establish 40+ Recovery Colleges in England, Ireland, Italy, Australia and Hong Kong. Recovery colleges are places where people with lived experience, professionals, … Continue reading A strategic approach to Recovery
Implementing Our 10 Key Challenges
ImROC has a clearly defined methodology including 10 key challenges that systems, services and communities can review to develop and improve their recovery-orientated thinking and practice. Originally created in 2011, we reviewed the 10 organisational challenges in 2016 and found the challenges were as relevant today as they were in 2011. This table sets out … Continue reading Implementing Our 10 Key Challenges
Learning Sets
Our action learning sets encourage a creative approach to learning by offering opportunities for people facing similar challenges to work together to share experiences and solutions. With our proven track record of delivering inspirational and practical learning sets, learning sets are a core component of our offer. Learning sets are available for organisations who wish … Continue reading Learning Sets
Blog #4 Recovery as part of an attempt by professionals and managers to control people
Perhaps foremost among the ‘other fish’ that haunt the pool of recovery is the notion that supporting recovery is part of an agenda orchestrated by managers and professionals to take over control of peoples’ lives. If this is the case, then it would clearly be fundamentally in opposition to recovery values. However, I have to … Continue reading Blog #4 Recovery as part of an attempt by professionals and managers to control people
