Job overview

The groundbreaking and highly successful Managing Emotions Programme delivers co-produced, psychoeducational courses to people who have recognised that the intensity of their emotions is having a detrimental impact on their life.

The Senior Recovery Coach will use their lived experience of emotional intensity to support the delivery of recovery-focused educational courses and provide supervision to the Band 3 Recovery Coach so experience of delivering supervision would be helpful. The Senior Recovery Coach will work closely with the Band 5 and Senior Clinician to assist with service improvement, evaluation and quality assurance.

Our official base is HQ but as with so many roles these days people are required to travel to any Trust site and community locations as well. UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes (should able to acquire within 3 months of commencement)

Main duties of the job

The band 4 Senior Recovery Coaches works as part of a co-produced team and delivering psycho-educational courses in primary care.

The Managing Emotions Programme delivers 3 courses to people who want to improve their self-management skills and one for carers/supporters of people experiencing emotional intensity.

The post holder will facilitate courses in face-to-face settings, and online. Working in a collaborative, co-produced way to ensure the lived experience, clinical knowledge and skills of the staff team come together to produce high quality, evidence based courses. They will provide supervision to the band 3 Recovery Coach and contribute to appraisal reviews.

The Managing Emotions Programme ensures regular 1:1 supervision for all team members, wellbeing support, Reflective Practice and regular opportunities for professional development.

If you are an empathic advocate for people with traits, or a diagnosis of Personality Disorder, their families and carers and looking for an exceptional opportunity to contribute to developing integrated mental health provision, and supporting people with mental health problems to achieve their goals, then we look forward to hearing from you.

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!