Aims
To identify knowledge and skills relevant to helping peer support workers offer a recovery-oriented perspective
Section 3
Competences covered in this unit
Ability to offer a recovery-oriented and person-centred perspective, for example working with staff to:
- discuss (and possibly challenge or improve) their attitudes and perceptions about mental health
- improve their awareness of the importance of treating people with dignity, respect, kindness and consideration
- improve their understanding of recovery-focused approaches (including the difference between personal recovery, clinical recovery and service-defined recovery)
- understand the importance of people defining, owning and leading their own personal recovery (rather than having recovery defined for them by professionals or the service)
- understand the importance of co-production (involving people with lived experience of mental health difficulties in planning, developing, delivering and evaluating services), social inclusion and equality
- explore ways to work in a recovery-oriented way with people
- help them understand the peer support worker’s role and remit
Ability to help mental health professionals, organisations or services to be well-informed about the perspectives and concerns of people being supported.
Ability to support co-production in service development and evaluation, and to work with services to co-produce and co-deliver staff training.
Ability to work with staff to make reasonable adjustments and ensure that environments are culturally sensitive and free from discrimination.