Developing expertise through experience
The Competence Framework for MH PSWs follows the format of other competence frameworks in mental health, which are widely used to support commissioning, training and development in the NHS
Organisations should ensure that processes related to the employment of Peer Support / Lived Experience workers (such as the development of criteria for recruitment, interview, selection and induction) are co-produced with people with relevant lived experience of providing or receiving peer support. Ability to assure appropriate recruitment and support of peer support workers Ability to organise …
At the core of peer support is the value placed on the use of lived experience of mental health difficulties (including the experience of caring for someone with experience of mental health difficulties) and seeing this as a form of expertise. Competency Framework Competences outlined in this document are detailed in The Competence Framework for …
At the core of peer support is the value placed on the use of lived experience of mental health difficulties (including the experience of caring for someone with experience of mental health difficulties) and seeing this as a form of expertise. Competency Framework Part 1 of The Competence Framework for Mental Health Peer Support / …
At the core of peer support is the value placed on the use of lived experience of mental health difficulties (including the experience of caring for someone with experience of mental health difficulties) and seeing this as a form of expertise. Competency Framework This document sits alongside The Competence Framework for Mental Health Peer Support …
Able to help people to make use of psychological approaches to support their recovery
An ability to balance the various roles of a PSW (for example providing support, promoting people’s rights, facilitator, providing interventions)
Self-care cannot take place in isolation: organisations need to have systems in place that are responsive to an individual’s needs and that enable staff to agree on, and implement, appropriate adjustments that accommodate these needs. This means that PSWs should be able to identify the people they would need to talk to in order to ensure that they receive the right support.
An ability to draw on knowledge that working effectively as a team is important as it can have a positive impact on the experience of people using mental health services.
Personal recovery is based on each individual’s own goals, beliefs, experiences and aspirations. It is ‘a deeply personal,
unique process of changing one’s attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and/or roles …
There are many ways of understanding the meaning of recovery. Because recovery is person-centred it varies with each individual based on their own goals, beliefs, experiences and aspirations.