Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative, dynamic and recovery focused Peer Trainer team based in Nottingham covering Nottingham City and County.
The adults who access our service present with a wide range of emotional and mental health challenges.
You would be joining an established, supportive and hardworking team who are passionate about improving recovery outcomes for adults, their family, friends and carers through teaching.
You will be an integral part of the team providing our service which offers co-teaching and co-production of recovery focused learning opportunities, enrolments, individual learning plans, reviews and next steps progression upholding the recovery focused culture and philosophy of the service.
You must have a teaching qualification and experience of teaching. Also, lived experience of your own mental health challenges.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to enrol patient/students into the Recovery College Service, to work alongside them to develop their individual learning plans and choose the courses the patient/student identifies. To support the enrolment process with information about progression on to next steps following graduation/discharge from the Recovery College Service.
The post holder will co-produce, co-facilitate and teach a range of face to face (there maybe be an occasional online course), recovery focused learning opportunities that are provided by the service for patients in conjunction with other trainers at the service.
The post holder will uphold their duty of care for all patients/students through an excellent understanding and implementation of patient/student welfare and safeguarding and risk management in line with Trust policies, procedures and the local service standard operating procedure.
The post holder will uphold the recovery focused culture and philosophy of the Recovery College service in all interactions and tasks with patients/students, college team, wider colleagues internal to the trust external partners, family & friends of patient, members of the public and visitors to the service.
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role requires a Peer Trainer who can work as a member of a team and on their own initiative. It is essential to be recovery focused, friendly and approachable and to be able to support the Recovery College service to deliver all aspects the service provides: teaching; learning support; enrolment and patient/student welfare. The job demands dedication, commitment, flexibility, loyalty, compassion and confidentiality.
To enrol patients/students at the service, working alongside them in a recovery focused way to support them to complete their own individual learning plan and course choices, which suit their own recovery learning goals.
To identify any learning support needs from an educational, physical and mental health perspective, recording this accurately on enrolment documentation and in RiO - electronic patient record management system. Also, in a timely manner hand over to the administration team for processing.
To participate in the co-production & co-review of recovery focused, self-management courses.
To co-facilitate the teaching/learning of courses offered in this service according to timetable commitments.
To ensure recovery focused learning context in each class that enables learning, utilising good classroom management skills, class agreements, the student charter and guidelines and sound understanding and demonstration of the concept of differentiation.
To plan and be prepared in advance of any given class timetabled with the relevant session plan and course resources, also to prepare classrooms in terms of environment and meeting and greeting patients/students.
To be responsible for maintaining up to date, accurate documentation of patient/student information and entering all data accurately and in a timely manner on the RiO- electronic patient record management system.
To be responsible for the duty of care and patient/student welfare in all timetabled classes, enrolments and ad hoc patient/student interaction in line with Trust safeguarding and risk management policies and procedures, also the standard operating procedure for the service. Reporting any concerns in a timely, responsive, safe and effective manner to the line management and following up on any actions required as directed.
To raise awareness of recovery language with all patient/students by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medical language in all work areas.
To contribute to the administrative tasks of the college.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role requires a Peer Trainer who can work as a member of a team and on their own initiative. It is essential to be recovery focused, friendly and approachable and to be able to support the Recovery College service to deliver all aspects the service provides: teaching; learning support; enrolment and patient/student welfare. The job demands dedication, commitment, flexibility, loyalty, compassion and confidentiality.
To enrol patients/students at the service, working alongside them in a recovery focused way to support them to complete their own individual learning plan and course choices, which suit their own recovery learning goals.
To identify any learning support needs from an educational, physical and mental health perspective, recording this accurately on enrolment documentation and in RiO - electronic patient record management system. Also, in a timely manner hand over to the administration team for processing.
To participate in the co-production & co-review of recovery focused, self-management courses.
To co-facilitate the teaching/learning of courses offered in this service according to timetable commitments.
To ensure recovery focused learning context in each class that enables learning, utilising good classroom management skills, class agreements, the student charter and guidelines and sound understanding and demonstration of the concept of differentiation.
To plan and be prepared in advance of any given class timetabled with the relevant session plan and course resources, also to prepare classrooms in terms of environment and meeting and greeting patients/students.
To be responsible for maintaining up to date, accurate documentation of patient/student information and entering all data accurately and in a timely manner on the RiO- electronic patient record management system.
To be responsible for the duty of care and patient/student welfare in all timetabled classes, enrolments and ad hoc patient/student interaction in line with Trust safeguarding and risk management policies and procedures, also the standard operating procedure for the service. Reporting any concerns in a timely, responsive, safe and effective manner to the line management and following up on any actions required as directed.
To raise awareness of recovery language with all patient/students by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medical language in all work areas.
To contribute to the administrative tasks of the college.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE standard equivalent in English
- AET Adult Education and Training Level 4 Certificate or equivalent
Desirable
- Additional Higher Teaching/Educational Qualification
Values and behaviour
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust values: trust, honesty, respect, compassion, teamwork.
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights Legislation.
Skills
Essential
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Essential car user or demonstrate ability to travel.
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of your own mental health challenges
- Experience of producing, utilising and implementing wellness plan for personal/volunteering or work resilience
- Experience of teaching, co-facilitating and co-production
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of teaching, co- facilitation and co-production of teaching and learning opportunities
- Knowledge and understanding of Recovery Principles & the Recovery College Service Model
- Knowledge and understanding of wellness plans as a tool for resilience and wellbeing.
Skills
Essential
- Teaching skills
- Co-production skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of using lived experience to safely and effectively to support recovery.
- Knowledge and understanding of data protection, confidentiality and safeguarding.
Skills
Essential
- Ability/skills to share lived experience safety and effectively.
- Self motivated, conscientious, flexible, adaptable and able to work on own initiative as well as a team player.
- Ability, with support, to manage stress, work under pressure, plan and prioritise work load.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE standard equivalent in English
- AET Adult Education and Training Level 4 Certificate or equivalent
Desirable
- Additional Higher Teaching/Educational Qualification
Values and behaviour
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust values: trust, honesty, respect, compassion, teamwork.
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights Legislation.
Skills
Essential
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Essential car user or demonstrate ability to travel.
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of your own mental health challenges
- Experience of producing, utilising and implementing wellness plan for personal/volunteering or work resilience
- Experience of teaching, co-facilitating and co-production
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of teaching, co- facilitation and co-production of teaching and learning opportunities
- Knowledge and understanding of Recovery Principles & the Recovery College Service Model
- Knowledge and understanding of wellness plans as a tool for resilience and wellbeing.
Skills
Essential
- Teaching skills
- Co-production skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of using lived experience to safely and effectively to support recovery.
- Knowledge and understanding of data protection, confidentiality and safeguarding.
Skills
Essential
- Ability/skills to share lived experience safety and effectively.
- Self motivated, conscientious, flexible, adaptable and able to work on own initiative as well as a team player.
- Ability, with support, to manage stress, work under pressure, plan and prioritise work load.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
