Recovery Lead inPortsmouth inPortsmouth PUBLISHED 26 DEC 2023

Clinical and Professional

• To model recovery-focussed practice, demonstrating personal-responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness
• To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of supervision and annual appraisal.
• To lead on raising awareness of recovery-focussed language and coproduction with Trust staff and partner agencies by modelling positive, strengths-based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work
• In collaboration with diversity leads, appropriately challenge inequalities and low expectation, addressing issues of stigma, prejudice and discrimination, whilst ensuring a process of learning for the wider organisation.
• Maintain good communication and effective working relationships across all disciplines and agencies across and engaged with mental health services, ensuring close links to those using services and those supporting them.
• To maintain a small clinical caseload appropriate to registration, demonstrating advanced skill and recovery application; remaining anchored in front-line work to enable delivery of this role.
• To work with Leads and experts to embed a recovery -focussed approach to risk and safety planning.

Management and Leadership

• Create and implement a strategy which enables place-based implementation of recovery practice addressing local need, which compliments and aligns with that of the wider organisation.
• Lead on the expansion, implementation and evaluation of a single Recovery College in partnership with Recovery College Leads
• Lead on the embedding of meaningful coproduction and involvement in the day-to-day practice of the service.
• Work with closely with corporate teams to support the lived experience and wellbeing of our non-peer workforce.
• Proactively build connections with community partners to build assets and reduce fragmented experiences of care provision.
• Work alongside the Peer Lead to ensure the peer workforce is a central and valued part of our service
• Responsible for the management of effective governance, quality, risk and safety systems within the area of responsibility.
• Ensure that systems are followed for the effective management of complaints, incidents and learning from experience within the post holder's area of responsibility.
• Sensitively discussing highly complex clinical/managerial issues with staff, service users and public
• To be responsible for a small budget that facilitates recovery focussed interventions both as part of individual care packages and wider service developments. Expenditure will be monitored to ensure that value for money is achieved
• The post holder will work with a high degree of autonomy to enact and facilitate service delivery plans, ensuring that outcome successes and barriers are escalated appropriately.

Education and Research

• Develop and deliver a comprehensive, coproduced and evaluated teaching and education package to various agencies and audiences.
• Lead the establishment of routine data collection enabling robust evaluation and a clear continuous improvement plan.
• To engage with the Research Academy, Patient and Public Involvement and Patient Experience team to ensure strategies are aligned and vision is shared.
• To become a recovery approach expert collating evidence and proactively contributing publications and presentations relating to recovery-focussed practice.
• Ensure accurate and thorough reporting sometimes at short notice.

You will inspire and lead our vision and strategy to enable recovery-focused practice throughout our mental health service. This will be informed by an updated perspective on the recovery challenges outlined by ImROC 10 Key Challenges - ImROC - Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change. As we continue to transform our services, your expertise and values will enable coproduction and learning from lived experience to become embedded in day to day practice. You will lead the expansion of our well established Solent Recovery College which is key in ensuring local people are supported to live well in their communities. Your support of the Peer Lead will enable our small but vital peer worker staff to grow and flourish.

You will be a registered health professional either with the NMC or HCPC, with experience of working in or alongside a recovery college and/or peer support staff. The successful candidate will have experience of enabling new teams, using improvement methodology and creating change through coproduction.

The Recovery Lead has a pivotal role in leading culture change and innovation across mental health services. They will use their extensive experience of working in or alongside mental health services to enable a trauma-informed, recovery-focused workforce with associated improvement in outcomes.

We are an innovative and friendly team offering high challenge and high support. We welcome applicants to contact or visit us to meet your future colleagues and learn more.

• Work in partnership with Recovery College leaders to develop, implement and evaluate a single, accessible Recovery College offer to those living in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Work with partner organisations delivering Recovery Education across the region to ensure complimentary Recovery College provision tailored to local need.
• Ensure organisational commitment to changing the culture, including our approach to risk and safety, with embedded coproduction and learning from lived experience plus optimised staff wellbeing, learning and development. This will include providing expert advice where indicated, in the wider Trust and community.
• Demonstrate proactive leadership in forging partnerships and connections across our geographies to work with providers, stakeholders and community partners in enabling people to live well and recover within their communities.
• Lead the implementation of recovery-focussed practice within all service transformations, informed by an updated perspective on the Recovery Challenges as outlined by ImROC 10 Key Challenges - ImROC - Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change.
• Support work led by the Peer Delivered Services Leadership across the region.