Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to work within LPFT as a Peer Trainer within the Perinatal Family Hub team in the Recovery College.
The Recovery College provides opportunities to learn about living well with our mental health and supporting the wellbeing of those around us. Courses are free and available to anyone aged 16+ who feels they would benefit from learning with those who have personal lived experiences and professional expertise of the topic.
Are you passionate about teaching others, supporting people to learn, (re)discover their potential and build on existing resources?
Can you appropriately share your experiences of mental health challenges in a way that helps others with their wellbeing & mental health?
The successful candidate will use an educational approach to support others to learn about mental health & wellbeing. They will work with the Family Hub mental health practitioner (MHP), the Senior Peer Support Worker (PSW) & PSW's who are part of the Family Hub team.
With expertise of facilitation & teaching they will co-produce & co-facilitate specific courses around perinatal mental health & wellbeing. The courses will be facilitated via a digital offer as well as in person at the Family Hub sites across Lincolnshire.
The successful candidate will facilitate groups at the Hubs, promote the College, gather feedback & work in a co-productive way that ensures the courses offered support the mental health & wellbeing needs of those accessing them.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of the Perinatal Family hub team ensuring effective communication and cohesive team work, linking in with the Recovery College, the Perinatal team and Family Hub sites
Co-facilitate (teach) specific Perinatal Family Hub Recovery College courses
Co-produce (design and create with others) specific Perinatal Family Hub Recovery College courses
Skilfully use own personal lived experience of mental health challenges
Promote the Recovery College
Support people to discuss mental health, raise awareness and reduce stigma
Be involved in quality assurance processes and course review
Role model personal recovery and work in a recovery focused, strengths based way.
Co-facilitate other Recovery College courses as needs of the service may require
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To establish and lead coproduction groups as per curriculum development in order to co-produce and deliver a range of sensitive recovery focused learning and development courses.
To work with expert peers and expert professionals, applying the principles of co-production by developing a learning environment that recognises and harnesses both partners knowledge expertise.
To work with individuals to assess their learning needs which aim to improve their mental health condition and enable them to understand, self-manage and where appropriate, change their behaviour.
To ensure that the Recovery College compliments the Trusts strategic direction and ImROC recovery model, particularly the concept of co-production and peer support.
To take a lead in identified courses as part of quality assurance and course review process as determined by the Recovery College manager.
To review, evaluate and implement changes to courses to improve their quality based on student feedback and local and national developments.
To ensure the lesson plans for courses, teaching and learning resources and session delivery are compliant with quality assurance standards.
To apply interpersonal and communication skills to ensure that the learning environment promotes opportunities for discussion and is a safe space for people to express opinions, questions, and thoughts.
To ensure the training environments used to deliver courses comply with Health and Safety legislation, and be responsible for the management of the equipment and resources.
Support students attending the Recovery College, in terms of registration and selection of courses, plus participation and engagement in sessions.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in students and staff alike.
Share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
Support students to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk
Signpost / promote resources and access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities,
Always have a focus on the rights of service users/students
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural, and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual
To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work
Support other members of the team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required
To work flexibly across the week, this may include evening work
Job description
Job responsibilities
To establish and lead coproduction groups as per curriculum development in order to co-produce and deliver a range of sensitive recovery focused learning and development courses.
To work with expert peers and expert professionals, applying the principles of co-production by developing a learning environment that recognises and harnesses both partners knowledge expertise.
To work with individuals to assess their learning needs which aim to improve their mental health condition and enable them to understand, self-manage and where appropriate, change their behaviour.
To ensure that the Recovery College compliments the Trusts strategic direction and ImROC recovery model, particularly the concept of co-production and peer support.
To take a lead in identified courses as part of quality assurance and course review process as determined by the Recovery College manager.
To review, evaluate and implement changes to courses to improve their quality based on student feedback and local and national developments.
To ensure the lesson plans for courses, teaching and learning resources and session delivery are compliant with quality assurance standards.
To apply interpersonal and communication skills to ensure that the learning environment promotes opportunities for discussion and is a safe space for people to express opinions, questions, and thoughts.
To ensure the training environments used to deliver courses comply with Health and Safety legislation, and be responsible for the management of the equipment and resources.
Support students attending the Recovery College, in terms of registration and selection of courses, plus participation and engagement in sessions.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in students and staff alike.
Share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
Support students to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk
Signpost / promote resources and access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities,
Always have a focus on the rights of service users/students
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural, and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual
To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work
Support other members of the team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required
To work flexibly across the week, this may include evening work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 4 qualification in health or social care or equivalent knowledge and experience gained through any combination of alternative study, employment, or voluntary work.
- Training and facilitation qualification and / or a willingness to achieve CET level 4 or equivalent within 9-12 months in post.
Desirable
- Mental Health related qualification (MHFA)
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of own mental health challenges
- Teaching / facilitation experience
- Experience of creating teaching and learning materials
- Experience of delivering sessions to a wide variety of people with differing learning needs
- Experience of partnership working skills in establishing effective relationships
- Experience of work interacting with the public
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health services
- Experience of using the Recovery College
- Experience of supporting people with a range of needs to meet their recovery goals
- Experience of co-production
Skills
Essential
- Computer literate and experience of using multi-media presentation software
Special requirements
Essential
- Must be able to travel to a range of locations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 4 qualification in health or social care or equivalent knowledge and experience gained through any combination of alternative study, employment, or voluntary work.
- Training and facilitation qualification and / or a willingness to achieve CET level 4 or equivalent within 9-12 months in post.
Desirable
- Mental Health related qualification (MHFA)
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of own mental health challenges
- Teaching / facilitation experience
- Experience of creating teaching and learning materials
- Experience of delivering sessions to a wide variety of people with differing learning needs
- Experience of partnership working skills in establishing effective relationships
- Experience of work interacting with the public
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health services
- Experience of using the Recovery College
- Experience of supporting people with a range of needs to meet their recovery goals
- Experience of co-production
Skills
Essential
- Computer literate and experience of using multi-media presentation software
Special requirements
Essential
- Must be able to travel to a range of locations
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Welton House, other various bases to be discussed and agreed
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH
Employer's website
https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
