Peer Trainer - Recovery Coach Team

Overview

As a Peer Trainer within the Recovery Coach Team you will deliver sessions focused on empowerment, resilience and independence. Sessions are co-produced and co-delivered with either a Recovery Coach or a Peer Support Worker. You will incorporate feedback from facilitators and bring examples of development and best practice to team meetings and supervision. You will role model that peers can live and thrive outside NHS services, connecting them to Peer Support Workers who can support their ongoing recovery journey.

Responsibilities

• Co-deliver high quality, evidence-based co-produced courses lasting between 90 minutes and 7 hours. Courses will be a mix of online and face-to-face teaching, potentially in the community or at CPFT sites/inpatient wards. Timetabling permitting, deliver training around 80% of your working week.
• Role model authentic recovery by sharing your own practical lived experience within an educational setting and environment.
• Contribute to weekly RCT meetings by providing feedback on work priorities and commitments to the wider team.
• Represent, promote and network for the RCT online via social media and in person/remotely at community and Trust events within the county.

Using a combination of coaching techniques delivered by Recovery Coaches, educational sessions delivered by Peer Trainers and lived experience from Peer Support Workers, the service provides a mix of one-to-one and group sessions to help patients reconnect with and engage in their communities.

As the RCT prepares for a relaunch, we seek a motivated and passionate peer with a clear understanding of empowering individuals through education to support discharge from NHS services and ongoing recovery within the local community. You will be confident and creative in engaging adult learners and have experience delivering to a wide range of audiences. This role can be hybrid; however weekly face-to-face work is essential.

About CPFT and Equal Opportunities

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve health and wellbeing and to empower people to lead fulfilling lives. Our clinical teams deliver NHS services in inpatient, primary care and community settings, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services
• Children and young people’s mental health services
• Children’s community services in Peterborough
• Social care
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. For more information about equality, diversity and inclusion, visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You may be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an opportunity for additional hours flexible around your circumstances.

Please note: in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 CPFT cannot accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a Red List country. Applicants requiring UK entry must provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority for each country (except the UK) where they have been present for 12 months or more, within 10 years prior to the visa application, while aged 18 or over. If successful, you will undergo pre-employment checks including a DBS (where appropriate), references and Occupational Health. Please bring identity documents to interview; a list of required documents will be attached to your invitation.

All communications will be sent via TRAC Systems. By applying, you agree to CPFT transferring information to TRAC. If offered a role, information may also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.