Job Description
This role is a fantastic opportunity for somebody with a clinical background to join the CNWL Recovery & Wellbeing College. The College opened in 2012 and has a wealth of experience of co-producing and co-delivering a range of mental health and wellbeing courses across CNWL. The College is also a member of the International Recovery Colleges Network and often hosts international visits as well as sharing best practice.
It’s an exciting time to be joining the Recovery & Wellbeing College as it has recently undergone a review in order to reflect on the past 10 years and consider how it positions itself in the new Health and Care model. There are a number of recommendations which the manager of the College will be responsible for implementing in partnership with a range of key stakeholders.
We are looking for a highly motivated mental health professional who has extensive experience working in recovery, wellbeing, social inclusion, co-production and partnership working. The successful candidate will have project management experience and will be excited to drive forward the development of the R&W College with stakeholders; taking a strategic overview and ensuring developments are in line with local and national changes.
You will be joining a well-established, supportive and friendly team who between them have a huge amount of lived experience as peers and practitioners as well as a strong admin team.
Interviews will take place on 08.06.23
The post holder will be responsible for the management of the Trustwide Recovery & Wellbeing College through a hub and spoke model based around internal, external and community partnerships. The key emphasis needs to be on providing a high quality, responsive service, delivering a range of co-produced recovery focused courses and workshops for service users, staff, relatives, friends and carers across the trust.
The main duties of the role are:
To work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to promote, develop and embed the principles of recovery oriented practice and co-production across the organisation
To support the Head of Employment, Volunteer and Recovery & Wellbeing College to align and balance the R&W College with the People Plan Priorities.
To work in partnership with the R&W College Deputy Manager and College’s Advanced Lived Educators to ensure modelling of co-production throughout college leadership team
To work alongside the Trustwide LXP & Peer Support Lead to develop learning and development opportunities for our lived experience workforce and R&W College
To ensure the staff of the College demonstrate the value of the service through positively promoting it’s offer through the collection and collation of data
The post holder will ensure they uphold our Trust vision, core values and model our SCARF (Safe, Compassionate, Accountable, Reflective, Fair) behaviours at all times
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
You will be joining a well-established, supportive and friendly team who between them have a huge amount of lived experience as peers and practitioners as well as a strong admin team. The team are dynamic, passionate and diverse who are committed to looking after each other as well as the students who attend the College.
Other benefits of working for CNWL include:
- 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
- Wide range of opportunities for career progression, including career mapping, mentoring and coaching
- Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing serviceto ensure staff become more healthier, happier and more productive both personally and professionally
- If you would like to see what its like to work for CNWL please have a look athttps://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
- Overall responsibility for the day to day operational management and leadership of the R&W College; supporting the deputy manager to hold day to day responsibility as appropriate and liaising with the Head of Employment, Volunteer and Recovery & Wellbeing College as necessary.
- To drive forward the development of the R&W College in collaboration with the Head of Employment, Volunteer and Recovery & Wellbeing College; taking a strategic overview, developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and ensuring development is in line with national and local changes
- Monitor R&W College capacity to ensure it is responsive to the changing needs of the organisation and stakeholders, developing strategies and innovative solutions to keep waiting lists to a minimum, where possible
- Lead developments in relation to remote learning, expanding the e-learning offer of the R&W College and ensuring the expansion of remote learning considers the barriers of digital inclusion and that the learning experience is enhanced for all students.
- Give direction to the development and review of training support materials for new workshops and courses as well as giving support and direction to the R&W College trainers.
- Support the deputy manager to monitor and ensure student learning support needs are met; and that accessibility to the R&W College is consistently and routinely considered and improved
- Support the deputy manager to monitor the content of workshops and courses ensuring they reflect innovative and current practice, comprise a range of perspectives and are informative and culturally sensitive
- Ensure the team and associate trainers comply with the R&W College quality assurance and CPD Standards framework
- Raise awareness of recovery language with all students and stakeholders by modelling positive, strength based , non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.
- Ensure all aspects of the service delivery are underpinned by the principles of coproduction and personal recovery
- To ensure trainers are supported to deliver a range of high quality, recovery focused courses and workshops whilst sensitivity managing often complex dynamics within the classroom
- To provide consultation, guidance and support to the R&W College deputy manager to ensure the administration team operate effectively
- To deputise in the absence of the Head of Employment, Volunteering and Recovery & Wellbeing College as necessary
- To ensure consideration is given to the recruitment of staff from a range of diverse background reflecting the population CNWL serves
- To have responsibility of the electronic staff roster and financial procurement systems with the deputy manager
- With the deputy manager, to ensure the curriculum lead and administration coordinator structure timetable progress meetings and coordinate the R&W College timetable in a timely manner, which includes negotiation with Spoke leads and trainers; and the securing of venues
- To develop and implement, in accordance with Trust Guidelines, a system of gathering, recording and analysing statistical information in relation to training activity that demonstrate the value of the R&W College
- To have responsibility for the service’s annual reports and business plan
- To lead regular and thorough service reviews ensuring the service develops in line with national agendas and new initiatives
- To consider and make decisions with regards to the eligibility of students and any safeguarding issues, consulting and liaising with the Head of Employment, Volunteer and Recovery & Wellbeing College as necessary
- To lead and actively participate in local and Trust wide meetings
- To work flexibly, including out of hours and covering colleagues’ absence if required in all areas of the college