Wellbeing and Recovery College Coordinator

Do you believe in and value recovery education and have lived experience? If so this job is for you We are looking for a Wellbeing and Recovery College Coordinator to work 37.5 hours per week.

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it

We aim to celebrate ‘human /person first’ approach, co-production and co-facilitation, which is inclusive and meets the needs of our community. We promote education to reduce stigma in mental, physical health and learning disabilities, autism and neuro-diversities, which support people to live their best life.

To manage the day-to-day operation of the Recover College through,
- Understand and champion recovery working, co-production and the principles of recovery education
- Developing and maintaining enrolment processes
- Liaising with trainers and students and actively supporting their development
- Building relationships to support the college with empathy and excellent interpersonal skills
- Working autonomously and effectively to manage interpersonal challenges in the moment, whilst appropriately using supervision
- Identifying training partnerships and negotiating with trainers course production and delivery
- Termly production of college prospectus
- Organising the printing and distribution of the prospectus
- Actively promoting the college with all stakeholder groups
- Trained as a trainer in the college, producing and delivering courses

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands.

We are a forward-thinking Trust and are extremely proud to have attained the highest possible rating of “Outstanding” from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), one of only two specialist Mental Health Trusts in England to be awarded this.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it’ and the way we do inclusion is no exception. As a ‘Disability Confident Employer’, we very much believe that inclusion is something that you feel when you work at the Trust and we are continuously developing our culture of inclusion. Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

**The Trust offers many benefits**:

- Pension
- Sickness policy
- Life cover
- Enhanced maternity cover
- Car lease scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Healthcare cash plan
- Free parking
- on site gym

To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate person who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well, our vision is to remain Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.

Recovery College Day-to-Day Operations

Role model and work to core principles of the Wellbeing & Recovery College, that’s under pinned by evidence base
1. Understand and champion recovery working, co-production and the principles of recovery education
2. Effective communication and liaison with trainers, including supporting trainer development, identifying training partnerships, negotiating course production and delivery hours
3. Enrolling students, organising and conducting Individual Learning Plans with empathy and the high level of interpersonal skill required
4. Planning and organising day-to-day tasks within the college and working to agreed plans for tasks required within the termly cycle
5. Liaising with IT specialists in developing and maintaining systems for day-to-day data management
6. Responsible for ensuring information required for day-to-day is up to date and organised within information systems
7. Building relationships to support the college with empathy and excellent interpersonal skills
8. Working autonomously and effectively to manage interpersonal challenges in a variety of settings, whilst appropriately using supervision
9. Identifying training partnerships and negotiating with trainers course production and delivery
10. Leading course prospectus writing and designing layout in collaboration with other recovery college personnel
11. Organising the printing and distribution of the prospectus
12. Actively promoting the college with all stakeholder groups
13. To be trained as a trainer in the college and to co-produce and co-deliver
14. Training and supporting junior college staff conducting Individual Learning Plans
15. Ensure regular and accurate workforce reports are produced according to organisational and divisional need
16. Liaison with college evaluators/researchers and actively support and contribute to relevant evaluative/research programmes
17. Effective use of supervision

Managerial
1. Supervisory (day-to-day) management support for junior Wellbeing and Recovery College personnel
2. Set challenging, clear, achievable objectives for individuals in sphere of responsibility ensuring that these are achieved
3. Provide specialist training, advice and support on own role/responsibilities where necessary
4. Support training and induction of new staff