Recovery College Peer Trainer

5 months ago


Lincoln, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

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. The College provides both in-reach within LPFT & existing services as well as outreach into community settings.

Do you have your own personal experience of mental health challenges?

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?

Co-facilitate (teach) Recovery College courses.

Co-produce (design and create with others) Recovery College courses.

Skillfully use own personal lived experience of mental health challenges to help students learn and make positive, meaningful changes to support their mental health.

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.

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.

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 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 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 instill 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.



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