Recovery College Facilitator

Band 3 Facilitator - Recovery College - Maidstone & Medway Posts

7.5hrs/week

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 everyone’s resourcefulness, talents and skills people become experts in their own health & wellbeing, make informed choices and move forward with what matters most to them in their life.

We are very excited to be expanding our Maidstone and Medway provision with Recruitment to these vacancies. Recovery College activities across Kent & Medway are now a fundamental and vital part of the Mental Health System. Hence we are recruiting to these Facilitator positions in Maidstone & Medway in order to increase capacity and diversity in Recovery College learning activities.

Please read through the full job description and person specification to see if this role is a good fit with your skills, knowledge, experience and aspirations.

This role broadly involves;
- Co-facilitating Recovery College courses and workshops for Recovery College Students to support them in their own recovery and in relation to their own aspirations.
- To bring empathy and understanding into all interactions with Recovery College Students by sharing lived experience, empathy, compassion and hope.
- To model /mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, empowering Recovery College Students to actively participate in their own recovery journey.
- To provide health and wellbeing learning experiences which empower individuals in managing their own health & wellbeing. This may include understanding specific diagnoses, making sense of personal experiences, connecting with others in positive ways, self-care, creativity, healthy eating, resilience, employment aspirations, life goals and leisure pursuits.
- To embed Recovery values and strengths based language in all aspects of Recovery College provision.
- To provide opportunities for individual Recovery College Students to direct their own recovery journey, via virtual learning spaces online.

For more information, please contact Pam Wooding on 07920 500989 or Suzanne Middleton Elliot on 07407 826920

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.

The main purpose of this role is to co-design and co-facilitate Recovery College (RC) workshops and courses, in safe learning spaces and via strengths based approaches in community venues. By promoting meaningful activity and sharing lived expertise, facilitators enable Recovery College students to connect, make sense of their own experiences and recognise their own strengths and skills. Facilitators provide new opportunities for RC students to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose. Facilitators recognise that each individual’s recovery journey is unique and deeply personal process and therefore RC students will each have knowledge, skills and experience. This shared learning environment will enrich the content of workshops and courses and the experience of those present.

**KEY RESULT AREAS**:

- Co-facilitating Recovery College courses and workshops for Recovery College Students and supporting them in their own recovery and in relation to their own aspirations as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To bring empathy and understanding into all interactions with Recovery College Students by sharing lived experience, empathy, compassion and hope.
- To model /mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, empowering Recovery College Students to actively participate in their own recovery journey.
- To provide health and wellbeing learning spaces to empower individuals in managing their own mental health. This may include understanding specific diagnoses, making sense of personal experiences, connecting with others in positive ways, self-care, creativity, healthy eating, resilience, employment aspirations, life goals and leisure pursuits.
- To embed Recovery values and strengths based la