Recovery College Facilitator
Job overview
Would you like to work with a team to improve health and wellbeing and empower others?
As a Recovery and Wellbeing College Facilitator you will work within a community team to understand their needs and deliver courses to help our students.
You will be supporting your team and empowering students to make connections, improve their wellbeing and get involved.
You may have worked in the public or third sector, education or be familiar with hosting large groups.
Using your personal or professional lived experience, you will give hope and support while promoting self-care and recovery to students in their recovery journey.
This opportunity is for Medway and Swale and is part time at 7.5 hrs/week.
You will be required to travel to community and NHS venues in Kent & Medway. This role includes some hybrid, home based work using digital technology.
Please read through the full job description and person specification before applying.
Please have a look at all information on our webpage here https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk/recovery-college
Main duties of the job
The key aspects of this role are;- To co-facilitate Recovery and Wellbeing College provision.
- To enhance student experience by compassionate communication.
- To enhance co-facilitator experience by providing high quality support.
- To empower Recovery and Wellbeing College Students to actively participate in their own recovery journey.
- To carry out administration tasks and liaise with your team.
- To positively promote Recovery and Wellbeing College within the community.
- To understand and promote the use of our Student Portal.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria- Knowledge: comprehensive understanding of and commitment to recovery ethos and self-management principles
- Skills: ability to facilitate learning and effective learning outcomes
- Skills: ability to teach and facilitate subjects related to recovery and self-management
- Knowledge: ability to use own lived experience / close rational experience constructively and appropriately in the development and facilitation of courses
- Knowledge - of recovery-focused practice in adult mental health
- Skills: IT skills, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Knowledge: ability to travel to various locations via own transport or public transport
Experience
Essential criteria- Lived experience of accessing health services (secondary care, primary care, social care, third sector)
- Experience of working in a team and autonomously
- Working in an educational establishment/organisation
- Working in third sector and/or health and wellbeing provider organisations