Do you want to make a difference to people's lives? Do you want to support people in our care to have an opportunity to; do a wide range if accredited educational courses, learn new skills and develop existing skills?
We are looking for an outstanding Recover College Lead with a passion for delivering excellent care.
You’ll be working 30 hours per week, please note this will include one evening shift and one weekend day shift per week.
At Cygnet, our perks go way beyond pension schemes and excellent professional development.
You’ll also enjoy shopping, travel and leisure discounts – as well as a range of healthcare and financial benefits – to support you to be happy both in and out of work.
Apply now to enjoy excellent career prospects while reaping the rewards of making a difference to others – every day.
Cygnet Hospital Maidstone:
Cygnet Hospital Maidstone is our state-of-the-art, 63 bed mental health facility for adults situated in the Kent Medical Campus in Maidstone.
Cygnet Hospital Maidstone is purpose built to meet the latest national specifications for improving mental health within a therapeutic environment. The hospital will provide an important and much-needed service for local patients from Kent.
The Role:
They will work as part of the Specialist Wellbeing team alongside Fitness Instructor, Dietitian, Physical Health Lead and Activity Coordinators.
The successful candidate will deliver the Recovery College Model to support people’s recovery through the services at Maidstone using learning, skills development and co-production to provide innovative education opportunities. They will empower individuals in our care to achieve their personal learning goals and build confidence and skills through education and co-production. There are a wide range of accredited courses people in our care can be supported to co-produce, co-facilitate and achieve. Courses should be recovery focused and aim to instil a sense of hope for the future. We rely on service users as experts by experience to help create courses together that add to and build on their recovery journey.
Your day-to-day…
- Recognising people who use services as individuals with skills and knowledge
- Break down the barriers between people who use services and professionals
- Build on people’s existing capabilities
- Include reciprocity (where people get something back for having done something for others) and mutuality (people working together to achieve their shared interests)
- Work with peer and personal support networks alongside professional networks
- Facilitate services by helping organisations to become agents for change rather than just being service providers
You are…
- Passionate about co-production and its role in mental health recovery
- Able and willing to work flexibly, to meet the needs of the service
- Have excellent organisation and time management skills
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of risk management
- Able to demonstrate an awareness of professional boundaries
- Motivated with a positive ‘can do’ attitude
- You will work closely with other MDT members
- You will be part of the our Specialist Wellbeing team and work in collaboration to deliver sessions. This will involve working with our Dietician, Fitness Instructor, Physical Health Lead and Activity Coordinators
For further review please see link to our inspiring story link below:
https://www.cygnetgroup.com/blog/the-impact-of-our-recovery-colleges/
The successful candidate will deliver the Recovery College Model to support peoples recovery using learning, skills development and co-production to provide innovative education opportunities. They will empower individuals in our care to achieve their personal learning goals and build confidence and skills through education and co-production.
Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you…
- An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme
- Expert supervision & support
- Employee referral scheme
- Free Health Cash plan
- Enhanced maternity pay: 8 weeks full Pay, 18 weeks half Pay (Inclusive of SMP) followed by 13 weeks SMP.
- 24 hours free GP support line
- Free life assurance cover
- Free eye tests
- Car lease discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Free mortgage broker and Insurance cover
- Pension scheme
- Employee NHS – discount savings & “Cycle to Work” scheme
- Smart Health Toolkit- Providing you with Fitness Programmes, Nutrition consultation and Health checks
Ready to make a positive change? Please click on the ‘apply now’ link below or send your CV to VickyLinstead@cygnethealth.co.uk
Due to limits on sponsorship allocations, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to new candidates for these roles, this remains under review.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.