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.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.