Peer employee for District Psychiatry Køge, Psychiatry East in Region Zealand

Your experience with mental illness and getting better can become a competence as our new peer employee
Have you personally worked through experience with mental illness and getting better? Do you want to use your processed experiences for the benefit of others? Then maybe you are the peer employee we are looking for to become part of our interdisciplinary F-ACT team in District Psychiatry Køge.

What will your tasks be?
F-ACT is a method for outpatient psychiatric treatment that has a flexible approach to patients based on where they are in the course of their illness. Intensive treatment is offered in periods when it is needed, and it is adjusted down to individually adapted standard treatment when the patient is feeling better again. As a peer employee, you will be part of an interdisciplinary team, where you have to contribute your own experiences in the meeting with colleagues and patients. In conversations and groups, you must support the patients' recovery process based on your own experiences of recovering from mental illness and give hope that they can recover from mental illness - just as you have done it yourself. You have to support the patients in difficult times and help them to (re)find valuable things in their lives and gain agency in relation to their own lives and treatment.

Your work will consist of managing individual peer discussions, which can be planned or spontaneous and more informal, while you e.g. does an activity that makes sense to the patient. The interviews can take place in the outpatient clinic, on home visits or in the local community.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to join a recovery group together with a healthcare colleague, where experiences are exchanged in an equal space with a focus on everything that is important to getting better, such as e.g. from dreams and everyday life.
As a peer employee, you must also contribute to interdisciplinary discussions about concrete patient processes with an eye to the patient's relationships, interests and dreams, and with an eye to the patient participating as much as possible in their own treatment. When you participate in interdisciplinary forums, you as a peer employee take as a starting point your own experiences from having been a patient in psychiatry and what was important for you to get better, as well as general knowledge about personal recovery.
What else does the position entail?

You get sparring from peer colleagues in Psychiatry East and from a mentor in District Psychiatry Køge.
You receive supervision together with the personnel group in your team.
You will be associated with a common experience exchange forum for all peer employees in Psychiatry Region Zealand.
You must solve minor administrative tasks such as documenting your contact with pt. as well as communicating with colleagues via email and calendar in Outlook.

It is essential that you:

Processed your experiences with mental illness and is a good place today to share your experiences.
Has been associated with outpatient psychiatric treatment, but the treatment in psychiatry must have been completed at least 1 year ago. In your application, please confirm that you have had a course of outpatient treatment and that your course(s) in psychiatry has been completed.
Willingness and ability to bring your experience into play for the benefit of others.
Has good collaboration skills and an appreciative approach to others.

There are no formal educational requirements for you, but it is an advantage if you have a peer education/course and experience with peer work. You will be introduced to peer support and recovery theory by PsykInfo and to the work in general in the unit in which you will work.
Your new workplace
In District Psychiatry Køge, we work based on the F-ACT model, where intensive outpatient treatment is provided to people with mental disorders. The treatment is based on a flexible, interdisciplinary, outreach and outreach effort in the patient's immediate environment. One of the cornerstones of F-ACT is the flexible treatment effort, where the team adapts the treatment intensity to the patient's current needs.

We have a permanent position of 20 hours per week, as well as a 1-year temporary maternity leave also of 20 hours.
You will be paid according to FOA's current collective agreement for peer employees.

A little about your future workplace:
Psychiatry East is a university hospital. We are active in research i.a. in the areas of: Personality disorders, Onset psychoses (OPUS) and Recovery. The research takes place in collaboration with the Psychiatric Research Unit.
Psychiatry East has a total of five wards and Psychiatric Acute Reception in Roskilde. There are district psychiatry in Køge and Roskil
de, district psychiatry for the elderly, psychiatric clinic treating non-psychotic conditions, and suicide prevention clinic. There are regional functions for respectively anxiety, ADHD, pervasive developmental disorders, personality disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses, as well as dual diagnoses.
We focus on evidence, quality assurance and patient safety, and the treatment is based on dialogue and relationships in intensive treatment courses.

Search the job
If the job sounds like something for you, send a motivated application with CV and possibly other relevant documentation.
The application deadline is [phone removed] - employment interviews will be held in week 15.
Employment takes place from 1-5-25 or as soon as possible thereafter.

You can get more information about the job at Pia Kjær Senior Nurse in department management by email [email protected] or by phone: [phone removed]
or Lead specialist psychologist Mette Gravesen-Jensen on tel.: [phone removed] or by email [email protected]
If you would like information about peer support, you can contact PsykInfo in Region Zealand on phone [phone removed] or [email protected].
You can also read more about how we work with peer support at [link removed] as a workplace 
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About Psychiatry
Psychiatry Region Zealand is a treatment psychiatry that consists of a number of inpatient units and outpatient units around the region. We take care of psychiatric evaluation and treatment as well as the emergency duty in Region Zealand.
We develop and convey a wide range of psychiatric services to the region's citizens, and we have an anonymous counseling service which is open to anyone who needs knowledge or advice about mental illness. We conduct extensive research with the involvement of both patients and relatives. We see it as an important task to train the employees of the future, so we also undertake a large training task.