Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust http://play.buto.tv/pqkCC
Dorset Wellbeing and Recovery Partnership http://play.buto.tv/m7FYh
Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust http://play.buto.tv/VM7fP
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
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
18 ImROC Peer Support Physical Health Briefing Paper Whilst most peer support practice, research and publications have focused on peer support by and for people with mental health problems, informal support between people who have shared experiences has always occurred across the whole spectrum of health and social care settings. There is, however, no existing …
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17 ImROC Preparing Organisations PSW Briefing Paper Peer support is more than the employment of people with lived experience in paid support roles; it is the employment of people who share some of the experiences of people using services (peers) specifically to draw on these shared experiences and ways they have found to live well …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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