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Job summary

Main area
Corporate Services - Recovery College
Grade
Band 6
Contract
1 year (Fixed Term)
Hours
  • Part time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week (working pattern TBC with successful applicant)
Job ref
380-SS0561
Employer
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Highland House
Town
Tunbridge Wells & Sevenoaks
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/07/2024 23:59

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Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust logo

Recovery College Clinical Coordinator

Band 6

 

The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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Job overview

The Recovery & Wellbeing College provides health & wellbeing related educational courses, free of charge, in supportive and accessible learning environments. Through safe and welcoming learning spaces, we can make sense of our  own experiences and learn how to take care of ourselves and others. By recognising our own resourcefulness, talents and skills we become experts in our own health & wellbeing, make informed choices and achieve the things we want in life.

We are now opening up new RC delivery areas in West and North Kent, so are seeking to recruit an excellent new Clinical Coordinator to join our Kent and Medway wide team. This position will have responsibility for specific RC delivery locations (initially Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks).  We positively recruit team members for their lived and learned expertise of living well MH diagnoses. We also welcome applications from non-clinical applicants, who are able to describe and demonstrate appropriate transferable  skills and qualifications. Please read through the full job description and person specification before applying.

The post holder must hold a full valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Main duties of the job

This role broadly involves;

  • Hold responsibility for the clinical leadership and delivery of Recovery College (RC) provision in a group of specific RC delivery areas.
  • Uphold, embed, and modeled the value of recovery-focused practice for our team and all people accessing Recovery College provision.
  • Clinical co-ordination of key operational activity (including prospectus planning, facilitator capacity, meeting schedules and agendas, course quality check, and ensuring governance and protocol around venue and facilitation partnerships are maintained).
  • Co-facilitate the recruitment of Recovery College delivery teams, including Locality Co-ordinators and Lived Expertise Facilitators.
  • Review, update, and deliver preparatory training packages to new recruits, via co-productive methods alongside RC team members.
  • Provide high-quality supervision & absence management, enabling direct support and guidance for Locality Coordinators and other RC team members when required.
  • To escalate ad-hoc concerns and queries from Locality Coordinators, RC team members, and other stakeholders to Recovery Lead when required.
  • To provide supervision and practice education to undergraduate students.
  • To be flexible and responsive, prioritizing competing demands to ensure the safe delivery of service.

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY RESULT AREAS:

  • To work collaboratively with Recovery College Locality Co-ordinators and Facilitators to identify student’s individual needs and support the student RC journey.  
  • To maximise student engagement whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
  • To draw upon experience and knowledge of clinical models and professional standards in order to implement RC best practice.
  • To demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the participation in dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives

RESPONSIBILITY:

  • Ensure that a “Duty of Candour” is maintained with RC Students/carers at all times.
  • Ensure services are able to be delivered safely and in accordance with the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act, including monitoring the quality and safety at each site of responsibility, identifying breaches, escalating them and acting on them as soon as possible.
  • To adhere to and apply the current Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of Clinical Health Care Professional Standards, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency for health professionals.
  • Be responsible for maintaining professional registration.
  • To adhere to KMPTs policies, procedures and guidelines.
  • Take into account the individual views, wishes, values and beliefs of individuals, to respect equality and diversity and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
  • To ensure all communication adheres to Trust policy and Caldicott data protection principles.
  • To support members of the team to assess risk and escalate concerns in line with service and Trust policy.
  • To critically evaluate UK RC Practice, national guidelines, audit results, research, evidence-based practice and legislation to develop and improve service provision.
  • To attend and actively participate/lead relevant clinical meetings/forums.
  • To have the ability to work in a hybrid manner, including working from home and travel between locations in a timely manner and to work flexibly off site when required.
  • To link with special interest groups both internal and external to the Trust to share good practice.
  • To act as a representative of the RC service including promotion of RC where required.

Please see job description for full details

Person specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of study to degree level in Health & Wellbeing profession
  • Registration with Governing Body HCPC/NMC
Desirable criteria
  • Award in Education and Training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Recent experience of designing and delivering training/groups related to recovery and self-management
  • Experience of supervising/mentoring/managing staff/volunteers
  • Experience of dealing professionally with challenging people and difficult situations
  • Experience of Recovery Focussed interventions
Desirable criteria
  • Working in an educational establishment

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • IT Skills across multiple programmes, packages and software
  • Line Management and Positive Team Support
  • Role Modelling Recovery Practice
  • Comprehensive understanding of and commitment to recovery and selfmanagement principles
  • Knowledge of recovery college ethos and co-production
  • Knowledge of aspects of the Learning and Development process such as training cycle
  • Ability to deliver training and effective learning outcomes
  • Ability to teach and facilitate subjects related to recovery and selfmanagement
Desirable criteria
  • Maintaining connection & communication via virtual/phone/email methods
  • Knowledge of the foundations and principles of Recovery Colleges
  • Knowledge of recovery focused practice in adult mental health

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyHSJ Best places to workCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Pam Wooding
Job title
Recovery Practice Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07920500989

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
Telephone
01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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