Recovery Lead

Job summary

You will inspire and lead our vision and strategy to enable recovery-focused practice throughout our mental health service. This will be informed by an updated perspective on the recovery challenges outlined by ImROC 10 Key Challenges - ImROC - Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change. As we continue to transform our services, your expertise and values will enable coproduction and learning from lived experience to become embedded in day to day practice. You will lead the expansion of our well established Solent Recovery College which is key in ensuring local people are supported to live well in their communities. Your support of the Peer Lead will enable our small but vital peer worker staff to grow and flourish.

You will be a registered health professional either with the NMC or HCPC, with experience of working in or alongside a recovery college and/or peer support staff. The successful candidate will have experience of enabling new teams, using improvement methodology and creating change through coproduction.

The Recovery Lead has a pivotal role in leading culture change and innovation across mental health services. They will use their extensive experience of working in or alongside mental health services to enable a trauma-informed, recovery-focused workforce with associated improvement in outcomes.

We are an innovative and friendly team offering high challenge and high support. We welcome applicants to contact or visit us to meet your future colleagues and learn more.

Main duties of the job

Work in partnership with Recovery College leaders to develop, implement and evaluate a single, accessible Recovery College offer to those living in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Work with partner organisations delivering Recovery Education across the region to ensure complimentary Recovery College provision tailored to local need. Ensure organisational commitment to changing the culture, including our approach to risk and safety, with embedded coproduction and learning from lived experience plus optimised staff wellbeing, learning and development. This will include providing expert advice where indicated, in the wider Trust and community. Demonstrate proactive leadership in forging partnerships and connections across our geographies to work with providers, stakeholders and community partners in enabling people to live well and recover within their communities. Lead the implementation of recovery-focussed practice within all service transformations, informed by an updated perspective on the Recovery Challenges as outlined by ImROC 10 Key Challenges - ImROC - Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change. Support work led by the Peer Delivered Services Leadership across the region.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Professional

To model recovery-focussed practice, demonstrating personal-responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of supervision and annual appraisal. To lead on raising awareness of recovery-focussed language and coproduction with Trust staff and partner agencies by modelling positive, strengths-based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work In collaboration with diversity leads, appropriately challenge inequalities and low expectation, addressing issues of stigma, prejudice and discrimination, whilst ensuring a process of learning for the wider organisation. Maintain good communication and effective working relationships across all disciplines and agencies across and engaged with mental health services, ensuring close links to those using services and those supporting them. To maintain a small clinical caseload appropriate to registration, demonstrating advanced skill and recovery application; remaining anchored in front-line work to enable delivery of this role. To work with Leads and experts to embed a recovery -focussed approach to risk and safety planning.

Management and Leadership

Create and implement a strategy which enables place-based implementation of recovery practice addressing local need, which compliments and aligns with that of the wider organisation. Lead on the expansion, implementation and evaluation of a single Recovery College in partnership with Recovery College Leads Lead on the embedding of meaningful coproduction and involvement in the day-to-day practice of the service. Work with closely with corporate teams to support the lived experience and wellbeing of our non-peer workforce. Proactively build connections with community partners to build assets and reduce fragmented experiences of care provision. Work alongside the Peer Lead to ensure the peer workforce is a central and valued part of our service Responsible for the management of effective governance, quality, risk and safety systems within the area of responsibility. Ensure that systems are followed for the effective management of complaints, incidents and learning from experience within the post holder's area of responsibility. Sensitively discussing highly complex clinical/managerial issues with staff, service users and public To be responsible for a small budget that facilitates recovery focussed interventions both as part of individual care packages and wider service developments. Expenditure will be monitored to ensure that value for money is achieved The post holder will work with a high degree of autonomy to enact and facilitate service delivery plans, ensuring that outcome successes and barriers are escalated appropriately.

Education and Research

Develop and deliver a comprehensive, coproduced and evaluated teaching and education package to various agencies and audiences. Lead the establishment of routine data collection enabling robust evaluation and a clear continuous improvement plan. To engage with the Research Academy, Patient and Public Involvement and Patient Experience team to ensure strategies are aligned and vision is shared. To become a recovery approach expert collating evidence and proactively contributing publications and presentations relating to recovery-focussed practice. Ensure accurate and thorough reporting sometimes at short notice. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters' degree level or equivalent experienceQualification and relevant health and care professional registrationHave or be committed to undertake recognised peer supervisor trainingManagement training/qualification or equivalent experience.Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in or alongside a Recovery College and with Peer workers, able to reflect and articulate the unique value of thisExperience of leading in a complex and constantly changing NHS environment and able to demonstrate achievement of high quality standards.Experience of managing a team working with individuals with complex mental health issues.Experience of supporting staff or volunteers with a range of complex health issues.Working across organisational boundaries and with a wide range of professional groups at a senior and implementation of strategies, transformation or change management programmes.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Skills Experience of using and teaching specific techniques, activities, interventions or therapies to staff, carers and people accessing the serviceAbility to manage a large workload and effectively prioritise across competing agendas and stakeholders.Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services/performanceProven record of leadership and communication skills.Ability to analyse problems and develop and implement practical solutions.Excellent report writing skills which include the ability to design and deliver presentationsHighly experienced and competent line manager with skills in managing a diverse workforce.Autonomous practitioner, able to organise a large and varied work programmeInnovative and able to drive flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing prioritiesAble to manage a complex work load; being able to cope with interruptions requiring an immediate to work well in stressful situations with the ability to problem solveMethodical and accurate with attention to detail.Effective negotiating and influencing skillsAble to challenge in a constructive and professional manner.Advanced IT skills - good analytical skills, able to assimilate, interpret and present complex information from a range of varied sources (sometimes conflicting), both quantitative (financial, activity) and qualitativeManage HR issues eg: appraisal, discipline, personal developmentUnderstanding of issues affecting people from different backgrounds and cultures Knowledge Excellent understanding of theory and practice of the recovery approach, coproduction and peer workers within the mental health fieldEvidence of good interpersonal skills and an ability to form relationships with service users, staff, friends and families/carersKnowledge of how to build community links and networksAble to utilise supervision effectively and work unsupervised in a range of settings Equality Be able to demonstrate and understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities, at an appropriate level for the post Other The role requires Enhanced DBSThe role requires the post holder to sign up to the Automatic Renewal DBS serviceThe role requires a professional registration; post holders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional to travel to other sites across Hampshire Isle of Wight as required for the roleAble to work legally within the United KingdomAble to work with children and vulnerable adults

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