B3 Recovery Coach

The Managing Emotions Programme delivers co-produced psycho-educational courses to people experiencing difficulties associated with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder. The Recovery Coach is required to effectively use your own lived experience to co-facilitate our range of courses.Within a relationship of mutuality, to facilitate and support information-sharing to promote choice, self-determination and empowerment. To co-write and co-deliver recovery focused courses alongside clinicians or expert trainers and work with the multi-disciplinary team in the support of the participants who access the service. This post is supervised by the Senior Recovery Coach.,

• The Recovery Coach will support the development of knowledge and skills through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience. They will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible.
• To assist participants to identify their strengths and challenges around managing their emotions.
• To support participants in self-management, keeping well, and offer guidance on how to work towards recovery.
• To contribute to the development of materials to support the delivery of courses.
They will also contribute towards the delivery and evaluation of the Managing Emotions Programme. Tasks may include those which are administrative; assisting the administrator to organise course delivery and venue booking, collating registers of attendees, and distributing relevant outcome measures. Their work may include contributing towards co-delivery of focus groups and working with carers and people who use the services to gain their views.

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.