Peer Positive and Safe Trainer

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Peer Trainers to work within the Trust’s Positive and safe Training Team.  These posts have been created to support the development and delivery of positive and safe training across the Trust. A central requirement of these posts is that the post holders will have direct lived experience of mental health issues and of accessing secondary mental health services.  The post holders will work directly within the positive and safe team and will be line managed by the Senior trainer.

The post holders will co-design and deliver face to face training which will enable the Trust to achieve the cultural change required to move toward recovery orientated positive and safe training. The post requires the post holders to travel and work into all trust geographical areas.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

Main duties of the job

You will work with positive and safe team to design, deliver and evaluate training packages.

Under supervision, and as part of the delivery of training the post holder will utilise their lived experience and examples of recovery-oriented approaches to engage and inform clinicians to support the implementation of more recovery focussed practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working as part of a team and directly alongside professionals, the Peer trainer will support the design and delivery of Positive Approaches training which includes:   •    Values and attitudes: setting the context for managing behaviours that challenge utilising the principles of Recovery, PBS, Harm Minimisation and Trauma Informed Care  •    National agenda on the use of restrictive interventions •    Principles of person-centred behaviour support •    Behaviour support plans •    Talkwell •    Staff well-being •    Verbal de-escalation •    Lone working (personal safety) •    Debrief   The post holder will utilise their expertise in relation to mental health services.    The post is a trust wide role and will require work into all locality areas.