Peer Trainer

This is an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative, dynamic and recovery focused Peer 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.

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. Also, lived experience of mental health challenges.

The purpose of this role is to enrol students in the college to work alongside them to develop their individual learning plans and choose the courses the student identifies. To support the enrolment process with information about progression onto to next steps following graduation from the College.

The post holder will co-produce, co-facilitate, & support the range of recovery focused learning opportunities provided by the service for service users, staff, relatives, friends and loved ones in conjunction with other trainers at the college.

The post holder will uphold their duty of care for all students through an excellent understanding and implementation of Student Welfare and safeguarding in line with the Trust policies and procedures and local service operating procedure

The post holder will uphold the recovery focused culture and philosophy of the Recovery College in all interactions and tasks with students, the college team, wider colleagues internal to the Trust and external partners, family friends, members of the public and visitors to the college

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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 able to support the Recovery College to deliver all aspects the service provides, teaching, learning support, enrolment, and student welfare. The job demands dedication, commitment, flexibility, loyalty, compassion, and confidentiality

To enrol students at the college, working alongside them in a recovery focused way to support them to complete their own individual learning plan and the course choices, which suit their own learning goals.

To identify any learning support needs from an educational, physical, and mental health perspective, recording this accurately on enrolment documentation and 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 the service, according to timetable commitments.

To ensure a recovery focused learning context in each class to enable learning, utilising good classroom management skills, class agreements the student charter & guidelines and sound differentiation.

To plan and be prepared in advance of any given class timetabled with the relevant session plans, and course resources, also to prepare classrooms in terms of environment, meeting and greeting students.

To be responsible for maintaining up to date, accurate documentation of student/patient information and entering activity on RIO patient records.

To be responsible for the reminder calls/texts for all students in any timetabled class.

To be responsible for the duty of care and student welfare of students/patients in all timetabled classes, enrolments and ad hoc student interactions in line with Safeguarding Trust policies and Service protocols and process, reporting any concerns in a timely, responsive and safe manner to line management and following up on any actions required as directed.

To undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required.

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