Band 5 Bank Oliver McGowan Trainer with Lived experience - Trustwide

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Join Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust as a Trainer with Lived Experience to deliver essential training on learning disabilities and autism. This unique role involves engaging staff across various locations to enhance understanding and improve care delivery through lived experiences. If you have a passion for teaching and an in-depth understanding of these crucial areas, this is an excellent opportunity to make a difference in the health and social care community.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of learning disability or autism.
• Previous experience of delivering training to staff.
• Ability to engage confidently and professionally with audiences.

Responsibilities

• Co-delivering training on learning disability and autism.
• Leading and supporting co-trainers who are autistic or have a learning disability.
• Training staff across the Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire regions.

Skills

Experience in delivering training

Lived experience of learning disability or autism

Engagement skills

Job description

Job overview

Bank opportunity – Band 5 Oliver McGowan Trainer with Lived Experience (Band 5)

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) NHS Trust is delighted to offer an opportunity work within our new Oliver McGowan training team as a Trainer with Lived experience of Learning disability or autism.

We are looking for trainers with experience of delivering this programme and who have knowledge of the requirements of a trainer with lived experience.

You will be training flexibly and up to 2 times a week as part of a small team supported by a facilitator in a range of locations across the Bath/ Bristol, South Gloucester and North Somerset footprint.

Training will take the form of half day face to face training with a facilitator or 1 hour MS TEAMS sessions to clinical and non-clinical AWP staff.

You should be able to engage with staff, training confidently using your own lived experience, in a professional manner.

The role will involve being able to travel to locations across the foot print described above. If carer support is needed for transport - any expenses can be funded.

Main duties of the job

This role is within the Learning and Development team, who are responsible for facilitating learning and development for the Avon and Wiltshire NHS Mental Health partnership Workforce in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and Banes , Swindon and Wiltshire areas. The Trainer with Lived experience is responsible for co-delivering the learning disability and autism training to people who work in AWP across the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire region and Banes areas.

This training is called The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism.

As a trainer with lived experience, you will have an in-depth understanding of learning disability or autism, and you will have previous experience of delivering training to staff.

Your time will focus on leading and supporting expert with lived experience co-trainers who will be autistic people and people with a learning disability. Along with the Trainer facilitator you will deliver training to health and social care staff across the BNSSG area.