Team Preparation Training

About the course

This CPD certified course provides a range of considerations for teams integrating peer support workers into their service and to identify positive supporting factors and areas for development.

The session will cover what a peer support worker is, what work they undertake, what values they work to, give space for teams to explore their thoughts and feelings about working alongside peer support workers and where needed exploring assumptions about the role. We will explore what steps a team needs to take moving forward and leave with some guidance around next steps and ideas that are bespoke to your team.

Structure

Total Duration: 2.5 hours (1 X 2.5 hr session)
Course Structure: Online via Zoom

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session learners will be able to:

  • Identify steps taken towards peer support to date

  • Name existing recovery focused practice in your team

  • Summarise hopes and challenges to implementing peer support roles in your team

  • Present solutions to issues that could arise when working as a PSW in a team

  • Evaluate team readiness for peer support workers

Who is this course for?

  • Teams employing peer support workers for the first time

  • Teams reintroducing peer support workers after a break following previous peer staff departure

  • Teams in their first year of employing peer support workers

  • Teams taking on a significant amount of peer support workers after having had a small peer support workforce for any amount of time

Additional Details

Induction & Assessment: No induction or formal assessment
Cohort Size: Up to 20 participants
Cost & Booking: peertraining@imroc.org