Peers who lead
Peer support, peer workforce and lived experience.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Homes and residents
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
People who have lived through homelessness, mental ill health or drug use hold knowledge that services cannot see for themselves. Lived experience and peer leadership open the course, using Baljeet Sandhu's three forms of expertise, a spectrum of lived experience roles, an honest reading of the 2020 meta-analysis by White and colleagues, paying people properly and lived experience across the commissioning cycle. The peer workforce follows, with the core qualities of shared experience, mutuality, hope and choice, Shery Mead's work, how peer roles drift and how to protect what you hired, the Hearing Voices Network case and six steps to a lasting peer workforce.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain Sandhu's three forms of expertise, lived, learnt and practice, and place your organisation's lived experience roles on the spectrum from feedback to leadership.
- Explain the four core qualities of peer support and use them to review a peer role in your own organisation.
- Assess a peer role against shared experience, mutuality, hope and choice, and describe what the research evidence on peer support does and does not show.
- Describe what the research evidence on peer support does and does not show, and avoid overclaiming its benefits.
- Design involvement and peer roles that build people rather than drain them, with fair pay, supervision, progression and a real place in commissioning.
- Identify signs of drift in peer roles and plan structures, supervision and progression pathways that protect peer values.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 12Lived Experience and Peer LeadershipPeople who have lived through homelessness, mental ill health or drug use hold knowledge that services cannot see about themselves. This module uses Baljeet Sandhu's three forms of expertise, a spectrum of lived experience roles and the core qualities of peer support, and reads White and colleagues' 2020 meta-analysis honestly. It covers paying people properly, what good peer roles need, and lived experience across the commissioning cycle.39 min
- 04Peer Support and the Peer WorkforcePeer support is help from people who have been through something themselves, and it now sits inside many public services. This module sets out its core qualities of shared experience, mutuality, hope and choice, drawing on Shery Mead's work, and reads the White and colleagues meta-analysis honestly. It explains how peer roles drift, how to protect what you hired, the Hearing Voices Network case, and six steps to a lasting peer workforce.37 min