Locality Coordinator

Would you like to be part of our 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 and facilitators and coordinating the Recovery College delivery in our Medway and Maidstone localities alongside an innovative team? If the answer is yes, we have a vacancy for you.

We are now recruiting to Recovery College Locality Coordinator posts for Medway and Maidstone, following other exciting Team changes.

This vacancy is full time (37.5 hrs/wk) but we may consider a job share for two successful applicants who are both seeking part time roles.

Please read through the full job description and person specification before applying.

Please have a look at all information on our webpages via the link below.

Kent & Medway Recovery College Webpage

The key aspects of this role are;
- To co-ordinate Recovery College provision in Medway and Maidstone.
- To enhance student experience by compassionate communication and effective support systems.
- To enhance co-facilitator experience by providing high quality support and supervision.
- To manage enrolments, course cancellations, facilitator absence, class cover.
- To coordinate and create the prospectus and promote Recovery College across localities.
- To coordinate administration tasks and liaise between Recovery College and partners.

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.
- To co-ordinate Recovery College provision in Medway & Maidstone.
- To enhance student experience by compassionate communication and effective support
- To enhance co-facilitator experience by providing high quality support and supervision.
- To manage enrolments, course cancellations, facilitator absence, class cover.
- To coordinate and create the prospectus and promote Recovery College across localities.
- To coordinate administration tasks and liaise between Recovery College and partners.

**KEY RESULT AREAS**:

- Quality and compassion in all communications.
- Develop and deliver high quality courses in line with national and local recovery knowledge
- and evidence base.
- Evidence working within the ethos of co-production
- Constructively use own experience to demonstrate working in a recovery focused way

**RESPONSIBILITY**:

- Ensure that a “Duty of Candour” is maintained with Students and Staff at all time.
- To take an active role in the engagement and promotion of the college, including team
- based development sessions.
- To work in partnership with other trainers to co-develop and deliver high quality recovery & self-management related training, to a mixed audience of people who use or work within our services and their supporters
- To deliver health & wellbeing courses in agreed venues in locality.
- To utilise lived experience constructively in the design and delivery of existing and future training
- To contribute to the review of existing courses in light of course feedback and service need
- To develop new training courses in partnership with trainers with professional experience
- To act as a positive role model in promoting lived experience within a recovery and self-management context.
- To attend meetings and conferences as required and representing the Recovery College
- To support students with enrolment, learning and support plans as required
- To support the development of peer trainers co-ordinating their activities and providing supervision
- To keep up to date with national developments in the fields of recovery and self -management and incorporate knowledge within training
- To support the other Recovery College facilitators in related tasks
- Attend and partake in team meetings
- To agree objectives with line manager and ensure that these are met or that barriers to delivery are identified at an early stage
- To provide lived experience and advice in non-training settings agreed with manager
- To establish links with partners and projects that have shared goals both within and external to the organisation
- To network with