Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (You may be expected to work some evenings and/or weekends. This will be managed flexibly on a rota or on an ad hoc basis to meet service demand.)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 246-COR7202150
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NSFT
- Town
- Norfolk/ Suffolk
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Peer Tutor and Learning Support adviser - Neurodiversity
Band 3
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Job overview
Are you passionate and enthusiastic about personal recovery?
Would you like to work in a dynamic team that has recovery at its core?
Do you have lived experience of neurodiversity?
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be part of an emerging team taking NSFT Recovery College on to the next stage of its development.
The Peer Tutor and Learning support adviser role will support the Senior Practitioner tutor and Practitioner tutor in the development and delivery of the Recovery College’s psycho educational package of support for ASD and ADHD, including webinars, courses, and workshops to all stakeholders in Suffolk (online and in-person).
Please note this is a 9 month fixed term post based in Suffolk only. For a secondment please seek agreement before applying.
Recovery College provides educational courses and workshops, with a focus on personal recovery to anyone in Norfolk and Suffolk over the age of 16 who are experiencing mental health challenges. The courses and workshops are designed to support people to learn skills and strategies to empower them on their recovery journey. All our courses are co-produced and co-delivered by people with lived and learnt experience of mental health difficulties/neurodiversity.
Main duties of the job
Support with the development, implementation and evaluation of ASD and ADHD psycho educational and recovery focused curriculum.
To co-tutor in Recovery College using your lived experience to empower and inspire hope.
To co-produce new courses for delivery in the Recovery College.
To participate in the Quality Assurance Process of course creation and delivery.
To co deliver courses to external organisations as required.
To carry out enrolment sessions/promotional activities as required.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
The Recovery College is a very small team covering a wide area. The College supports thousands of students and prides itself on professionalism and customer service. The successful applicant will be entering a friendly and welcoming team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Peer Tutor and Learning Support Adviser, you will act as a role model by sharing your lived experience of recovery to inspire hope, motivate and support others in their recovery journey.
You will assist service users, staff, and supporters to gain an understanding of personal recovery through co-producing and co-facilitating workshops and courses within the Norfolk and Suffolk Recovery College.
You will also have the opportunity to support students accessing the college to plan individual learning and progression through the college. This will include development of individual learning plans and termly enrolment sessions along with reviewing progress for students each term.
Peer tutors will show empathy, share experiences, inspire hope, and promote recovery, with the aim of assisting/supporting service users, staff and supporters to gain an understanding of personal recovery through co-producing and co-facilitating workshops and courses within the Norfolk and Suffolk Recovery College.
Peer tutors will support students accessing the college to plan individual learning and progression through the college. This will include development of individual learning plans and termly enrolment sessions along with reviewing progress for students each term.
Peer tutors will uphold the recovery focused culture and philosophy of the college in all interactions and tasks with students, the college team, wider colleagues internal to the trust and external partners, family, friend, members of the public and visitors to the college.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) pro rata.
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Literacy and numeracy level 2 or equivalent
- In house (NSFT) peer tutor training programme (tutor passport) or equivalent or willing to work towards it.
Desirable criteria
- GCSE maths and english.
- Award in adult education and training level 3 or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Personal Lived Experience of neurodiversity
- Experience of tutoring or co-facilitating
- Experience of working in a collaborative and co-produced way
Desirable criteria
- Contact with secondary Mental Health services
- Experience of peer tutoring within a recovery college
- Experience of co-producing workshops or courses for the recovery college
Other
Essential criteria
- Commitment to continuing personal development.
- Able to travel efficiently
- Commitment to own/personal recovery pathway.
Desirable criteria
- Completion of WRAP (wellness plan)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ash Moorcroft
- Job title
- Recovery College Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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