Peer Trainer

at  Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This role requires a Peer Trainer who can work as a member of a team and on their own initiative. It is essential to be recovery focused, friendly and approachable and to be able to support the Recovery College service to deliver all aspects the service provides: teaching; learning support; enrolment and patient/student welfare. The job demands dedication, commitment, flexibility, loyalty, compassion and confidentiality. To enrol patients/students at the service, working alongside them in a recovery focused way to support them to complete their own individual learning plan and course choices, which suit their own recovery learning goals.
To identify any learning support needs from an educational, physical and mental health perspective, recording this accurately on enrolment documentation and in RiO - electronic patient record management system. Also, in a timely manner hand over to the administration team for processing. To participate in the co-production & co-review of recovery focused, self-management courses. To co-facilitate the teaching/learning of courses offered in this service according to timetable commitments.
To ensure recovery focused learning context in each class that enables learning, utilising good classroom management skills, class agreements, the student charter and guidelines and sound understanding and demonstration of the concept of differentiation. To plan and be prepared in advance of any given class timetabled with the relevant session plan and course resources, also to prepare classrooms in terms of environment and meeting and greeting patients/students. To be responsible for maintaining up to date, accurate documentation of patient/student information and entering all data accurately and in a timely manner on the RiO- electronic patient record management system. To be responsible for the duty of care and patient/student welfare in all timetabled classes, enrolments and ad hoc patient/student interaction in line with Trust safeguarding and risk management policies and procedures, also the standard operating procedure for the service.
Reporting any concerns in a timely, responsive, safe and effective manner to the line management and following up on any actions required as directed. To raise awareness of recovery language with all patient/students by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medical language in all work areas. To contribute to the administrative tasks of the college

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