Band 5 Recovery Lead - Health and Justice Vulnerability Service

Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?
The Health and Justice Vulnerability Service have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, empathetic and caring professional to join our service as a Band 5 Recovery Lead.
The role will require you to lead, inspire and deliver on recovery outcomes. You will hold supervision responsibilities for our peer mentors and facilitate the coordination of the recovery pathway.
The focus of the post is to ensure that users of our service are at the centre of the planning, implementation and evaluation of the service delivered, and that co-production is business as usual. The post holder will lead in the development, embedding and continuity of recovery practice and principles across the Health & Justice service.
The post holder will develop sustainable co-production strategies with users of the service, relatives and carers., To lead and support the delivery of a robust and effective Recovery pathway for service users within the Criminal Justice System.
To model recovery values at all times, inspiring hope, and optimism for people experiencing multiple health and social vulnerabilities and inequalities within the Birmingham and Solihull area and embrace opportunities for positive change.
These priorities will be subject to changes overtime as the service develops, however in the first instance will include:
+ Sustaining and developing peer working/mentor schemes
+ Co-production
+ Fundamental training around recovery for all staff
+ Management supervision of peer mentors
+ Collaboration with:
Health & Justice Peer Network
The Recovery College
Patient Experience and Recovery Team
Recovery and co-production lead for secure care
+ Analysis and evaluation of recovery data
+ Establish Lived Experience forums

Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.
Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust's induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The subscription will cost you £13 a year but the Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.