Recovery Coach

Job summary

Main duties of the job

You will plan, facilitate, and review a diverse range of recovery educational courses and workshops designed to promote health, wellbeing, and personal development. This is a creative and rewarding role where youll design learning experiences that inspire confidence, build resilience, and empower people to take steps toward a life of meaning and purpose. You will also conduct individual learner plans, support goal setting, and provide supervision and guidance to peer support workers and volunteers, helping them grow and thrive in their roles.

Youll work collaboratively with statutory and non-statutory partners to strengthen community connections and ensure our courses reflect local needs. You will contribute to course evaluations and champion best practice through research, continuous improvement, and consistent use of our course quality standards framework. Your ability to innovate and adapt will help us deliver an outstanding learning offer.

You will co-produce and co-facilitate courses for our diverse learner population in a variety of venues across Kirklees, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity. As part of our leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping the colleges future co-ordinating the course offer, supporting supervision, and driving development to maintain excellence and innovation in everything we do.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Job responsibilities

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.