Recovery College Practitioner Trainer

The Recovery College Practitioner Trainer plays a key role in delivering high-quality educational opportunities that support recovery, wellbeing, and self-management for people accessing the Trust’s mental health services, their families, carers, supporters and staff. Working in partnership with Peer Trainers, the postholder will co-design, co-produce, and co facilitate Recovery College courses and workshops, ensuring that lived experience and professional expertise are valued equally. The Practitioner Trainer will promote a culture of hope, empowerment, inclusion, and shared learning, supporting students to identify and build upon their strengths, skills, and aspirations.

This Role requires the practitioner trainer to work across all 5 Boroughs, Wandsworth, Kingston, Merton, Sutton, Richmond.

Key Responsibilities Co-facilitate Recovery College face to face and online courses alongside Peer Trainers across venues that are used by the Recovery College in Wandsworth, Kingston, Merton, Richmond and Sutton.

Deliver engaging and interactive learning experiences that encourage active

participation, reflection, and self-directed learning.

Support students to identify suitable courses and learning opportunities that align with their individual recovery goals.

Promote self-management approaches that enable students to develop confidence, resilience, wellbeing, and independence.

Ensure learning environments are welcoming, inclusive, psychologically safe, and accessible for all students.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK. We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nisha Proietti Job title: Recovery College Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07970 105439