Trust Lead for Recovery Academy and Peer Support

at  Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

To lead on the development and delivery of the Trust Recovery Academy (RA) and promote the development of knowledge and skills which are inherent to recovery from mental health and substance misuse difficulties. This will be through the development and delivery of education programmes and resources to service users, carers, staff and other health and social care professionals. To engage stakeholders from across all professions and service user groups within the organisation to ensure collaboration and co-production in order to adhere to the Academy core principles of shared learning and empowerment. To coordinate service user involvement and ensure the necessary support is in place for people with lived experience and people with professional expertise to foster good relationships and ensure co-production can flourish.
To be the budget holder for the Recovery Academy and secure opportunities for income generation to ensure long-term security and commercial viability of the Academy. To line manage staff within the Recovery Academy, including trainers with lived experience of mental health and/or substance misuse problems. To promote co-production at a Trust wide level and influence organisational change via the development, growth and sustainability of GMMH peer workforce. To recruit, train, induct and supervise the peer workforce ensuring all peers are supported effectively and enable shared learning to take place for continuous improvement.
Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years Excellent pension Cycle to work scheme Salary sacrifice car scheme Wellbeing programme Blue Light Card Discount

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