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Job summary

Main area
Mental heatlh
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
325-6322400-COMM-A
Employer
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trust HQ
Town
Leatherhead
Salary
£24,008 - £25,553 (Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/08/2024 23:59

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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

B3 Recovery Coach

NHS AfC: Band 3

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust  to work for.  This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

The Managing Emotions Programme delivers co-produced psycho-educational courses to people experiencing difficulties associated with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder. The Recovery Coach is required to effectively use your own lived experience to co-facilitate our range of courses. Within a relationship of mutuality, to facilitate and support information-sharing to promote choice, self-determination and empowerment. To co-write and co-deliver recovery focused courses alongside clinicians or expert trainers and work with the multi-disciplinary team in the support of the participants who access the service. This post is supervised by the Senior Recovery Coach.

Main duties of the job

  • The Recovery Coach will support the development of knowledge and skills through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience. They will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible.
  • To assist participants to identify their strengths and challenges around managing their emotions.
  • To support participants in self-management, keeping well, and offer guidance on how to work towards recovery.
  • To contribute to the development of materials to support the delivery of courses.

·       They will also contribute towards the delivery and evaluation of the Managing Emotions Programme. Tasks may include those which are administrative; assisting the administrator to organise course delivery and venue booking, collating registers of attendees, and distributing relevant outcome measures.

·       Their work may include contributing towards co-delivery of focus groups and working with carers and people who use the services to gain their views.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the the detailed Job Description (attached) for full details of the roles and responsibilities of the job

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Knowledge regarding personality disorder/emotional intensity, obtained through lived experience and/or caring for somebody with mental health difficulties.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Personal lived experience of mental health difficulties (specifically personality disorder/emotional intensity) and a willingness to positively share your own life experiences/ personal experiences of mental ill health as part of the coaching role.
  • • Previous experience of voluntary or paid employment for a minimum of 1 year
  • • Experience of supporting, teaching or coaching others who are living with mental health difficulties, or caring for someone who does

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nina Clayton-Broom
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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