Recovery College Clinical Coordinator

The Recovery & Wellbeing College provides health & wellbeing related educational courses, free of charge, in supportive and accessible learning environments. Through safe and welcoming learning spaces, we can make sense of our own experiences and learn how to take care of ourselves and others. By recognising our own resourcefulness, talents and skills we become experts in our own health & wellbeing, make informed choices and achieve the things we want in life.

We are now recruiting to exciting Clinical Coordinator posts at Recovery College - with responsibility for specific RC delivery locations. Please read through the full job description and person specification before applying.

Would you like to be part of forward thinking & progressive Recovery College work? Do you want to develop your skills and utilise your expertise in new ways to support the long term wellbeing of people experiencing health challenges? Do you want to work in a key role, supporting students, locality coordinators and facilitators and providing clinical coordination for the Recovery College delivery, alongside an innovative team? If the answer is yes, we have a vacancy for you.

This role broadly involves;
1. Hold responsibility for the clinical leadership and delivery of Recovery College (RC) provision in group of specific RC delivery areas.
2. Uphold, embed and model the value of recovery focussed practice for our team and all people accessing Recovery College provision.
3. Clinical co-ordination of key operational activity (including prospectus planning, facilitator capacity, meeting schedules and agendas, course quality check and ensuring governance and protocol around venue and facilitation partnerships are maintained).
4. Co-facilitate the recruitment of Recovery College delivery teams, including Locality Co-ordinators and Lived Expertise Facilitators.
5. Review, update and deliver preparatory training packages to new recruits, via co-productive methods alongside RC team members.
6. Provide high quality supervision & absence management, enabling direct support and guidance for Locality Coordinators and other RC team members when required.
7. To escalate ad-hoc concerns and queries from Locality Coordinators, RC team members and other stakeholders to Recovery Lead when required.
8. To provide supervision and practice education to undergraduate students.
9. To be flexible and responsive, prioritising competing demands to ensure safe delivery of service.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

**KEY RESULT AREAS**:

- To work collaboratively with Recovery College Locality Co-ordinators and Facilitators to identify student’s individual needs and support the student RC journey.
- To maximise student engagement whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
- To draw upon experience and knowledge of clinical models and professional standards in order to implement RC best practice.
- To demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the participation in dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives

**RESPONSIBILITY**:

- Ensure that a “Duty of Candour” is maintained with RC Students/carers at all times.
- Ensure services are able to be delivered safely and in accordance with the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act, including monitoring the quality and safety at each site of responsibility, identifying breaches, escalating them and acting on them as soon as possible.
- Be responsible for maintaining professional registration.
- To adhere to KMPTs policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Take into account the individual views, wishes, values and beliefs of individuals, to respect equality and diversity and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
- To ensure all communication adheres to Trust policy and Caldicott data protection principles.
- To support members of the team to assess risk and escalate concerns in line with service and Trust policy.
- To critically evaluate UK RC Practice, national guidelines, audit results, research, evidence-based practice and legislation to develop and improve service provision.
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