Recovery College Peer Trainer

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The Recovery College provides opportunities to learn about living well with our mental health and supporting the wellbeing of those around us. Courses are free and available to anyone aged 16+ who feels they would benefit from learning with those who have personal lived experiences and professional expertise of the topic. The College provides both in-reach within LPFT & existing services as well as outreach into community settings.
Do you have your own personal experience of mental health challenges?
Are you passionate about teaching others, supporting people to learn, (re)discover their potential and build on existing resources?
Can you appropriately share your experiences of mental health challenges in a way that helps others with their wellbeing & mental health?
The Peer Trainer role is integral to the College & the successful candidate will be able to use an educational approach to support others to learn about mental health & wellbeing.
This is a varied & dynamic role and we are looking for someone who thrives on being able to get involved with a variety of different areas of work and take the lead where appropriate. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic & able to work effectively both autonomously & as part of a team.
For more info please contact Amy Day - Team Manager on 07866 810545 or email amy.day16@nhs.net
Co-facilitate (teach) Recovery College courses.
Co-produce (design and create with others) Recovery College courses.
Skillfully use own personal lived experience of mental health challenges to help students learn and make positive, meaningful changes to support their mental health.
Promote the Recovery College.
Support people to discuss mental health, raise awareness and reduce stigma.
Be involved in quality assurance processes and course review.
Role model personal recovery and work in a recovery focused, strengths based way.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
To establish and lead coproduction groups as per curriculum development in order to co-produce and deliver a range of sensitive recovery focused learning and development courses
To work with expert peers and expert professionals, applying the principles of co-production by developing a learning environment that recognises and harnesses both partners knowledge expertise
To work with individuals to assess their learning needs which aim to improve their mental health condition and enable them to understand, self-manage and where appropriate, change their behaviour
To ensure that the Recovery College compliments the Trusts strategic direction and ImROC recovery model, particularly the concept of co-production and peer support
To take a lead in identified courses as part of quality assurance and course review process as determined by the Recovery College manager
To review, evaluate and implement changes to courses to improve their quality based on student feedback and local and national developments
To ensure the lesson plans for courses, teaching and learning resources and session delivery are compliant with quality assurance standards
To apply interpersonal and communication skills to ensure that the learning environment promotes opportunities for discussion and is a safe space for people to express opinions, questions, and thoughts
To ensure the training environments used to deliver courses comply with Health and Safety legislation, and be responsible for the management of the equipment and resources
Support students attending the Recovery College, in terms of registration and selection of courses, plus participation and engagement in sessions.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instill confidence in students and staff alike.
Share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
Support students to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk.
Signpost / promote resources and access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities,
Always have a focus on the rights of service users/students.
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural, and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.
Support other members of the team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required.
To work flexibly across the week, this may include evening work

Please refer the Job description for details