B5 Expert Peer Trainer / MH Practitioner - two roles

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with The Managing Emotions Programme (MEP). We are looking for an Expert Recovery Trainer or Mental Health Practitioner, who is passionate about training and empowering people to develop the skills to manage their own recovery, or those they care for.

If you would like to join our dedicated Team and make a difference, then we would love to hear from you.

The Managing Emotions Programme (MEP) is part of a tiered programme for people with emotional intensity, possibly with traits, or a diagnosis, of Personality Disorder (PD) and their carers. This is part of the wider NHS Transformation aiming to embed mental health interventions within primary care. The aim of the Managing Emotions Programme is to help train and empower people to develop the skills to manage their own recovery or the recovery of those they care for.

As an Expert Recovery Trainer or Mental Health Practitioner, you will deliver psycho-educational courses, co-facilitated with Recovery Coaches. You will co-write recovery focused courses alongside Clinicians and Recovery Coaches with lived experience of mental health difficulties and work with the multi-disciplinary team in the support of the participants who access the service. The post also provides supervision to Band 4 Senior Recovery Coaches and will work closely with the Band 6 Senior Clinician to assist with service improvement, evaluation and quality assurance.

We have two full time roles available.

Main duties of the job

To use your expert peer training and / or mental health qualifications to provide an effective, high-quality service which enhances the co-production and co-delivery of PD recovery-focused courses, to support people in self-management, keeping well, and offer guidance on how to work towards recovery.

To contribute towards the development and evaluation of the primary care PD pathway.

To provide supervision and mentoring, where appropriate, to Senior Recovery Coaches and

Recovery Coaches who are involved in the PD pathway;

The post holder will lead on the carers provision by promoting a focus on carers health and wellbeing, including young carers, by co-producing specific courses for carers alongside the Senior Recovery Coaches and Recovery Coaches.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Third Floor, Leatherhead House

Station Road

Leatherhead House

Surrey

KT22 7ET

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Third Floor, Leatherhead House

Station Road

Leatherhead House

Surrey

KT22 7ET

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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