Volunteer - Parent Peer Support for SET CAMHS

HCRG Care Group Targeted and System Support Services (TSSS) work in close partnership with Children and Young People (CYP), their parents / carers, education, and health colleagues to provide interventions and support to improve emotional wellbeing and healthy lifestyles.

The Targeted and System Support Services support the outcomes framework of the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service through the provision of targeted services which support the achievement of emotional health and healthy lifestyle outcomes.

They include: -

Southend, Essex, and Thurrock Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (SET CAMHS) underpinned by the Thrive Framework.
The Affinity Programme delivering a trauma informed approach and restorative coaching to prevent school exclusion.
Healthy Schools: working with schools to develop health promotion and trauma informed environment.
The Transforming Care Keyworker Service supporting CYP with learning difficulties or ASD who are at risk of hospital admission through poor mental health.
Child & Family Healthy Lifestyles; including National Child Measurement Programme and intervention for overweight children.

Package DescriptionJoin our fantastic Essex Children's Service as a Volunteer !

As a Volunteer Parent Peer Support for SET CAMHS you will receive:

Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for a volunteers to support in Colchester.

Seeking Volunteers with personal lived experience as a parent or caregiver of a child or adolescent with mental health challenges who have accessed CAMHS in the Colchester area.

Within the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provided by HCRG care group, we are looking for volunteers who are parents or caregivers of children who have received treatment from CAMHS and feel able to offer some of their time (once a month) to setup and run a drop in peer-to-peer support group.

These monthly drop-in sessions, run by 2/3 volunteers, will provide a safe space, time for a cup of tea and peer to peer support - run by parent for parents in the Colchester area.

Personal lived experience as a parent or caregiver of a child or adolescent with mental health challenges who have accessed CAMHS.
Empathetic and compassionate nature, with excellent listening skills.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and respecting boundaries.

Time Commitment: to be discussed.

Driving licence and access to vehicle for volunteering purposes
To have an understanding of emotional wellbeing and healthy lifestyle services for Children & Young People.
To have some experience working with children and young people; this could be in the form of counselling, education, volunteering, mentoring or coaching.

This role requires someone who has had lived experience as detailed previously, so please take a few moments to complete the questionnaire, providing a statement explaining why you would like to volunteer with us.

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.