B3 Recovery Coach

Transformationunitgm; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Leatherhead is seeking a Recovery Coach to co-facilitate psycho-educational courses for individuals with personality disorders. The role involves sharing lived experiences to inspire and support participants in their recovery journey. Candidates should have personal experience with mental health difficulties and a passion for helping others.

Qualifications

• Knowledge regarding personality disorder/emotional intensity through lived experience.
• Personal lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Support development of knowledge and skills through sharing lived experience.
• Assist participants in self-management and offer guidance on recovery.

Skills

Knowledge regarding personality disorder

Personal lived experience of mental health difficulties

Job description

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trust HQ Town Leatherhead Salary £25,883 - £26,958 (Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/05/2025 23:59

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

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

Experience

• • 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

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.