PICT Trainer with Lived Experience

PICT Trainer with Lived Experience

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 February 2023

Interviews will be held on 28th February 2023

Pay scheme –Agenda for change

Band –Band 5

Salary –£28,407 to £34,580 a year Inc. 5% HCAS Fringe

Contract –Permanent

Working pattern – Full-time, Part-time

NHS Jobs Reference number –C9325-22-2539-2

Job locations – Third Floor, Leatherhead House, Station Road, Leatherhead House, Surrey, KT22 7E

Job summary

The post holder will bring lived experience and knowledge of personality disorder or difficulties to support the delivery of consultation and training to the wider primary care system, focusing on the upskilling of a wide range of professionals and teams, helping them to understand and work with compassion and confidence with people with traits, or a formal diagnosis of, personality disorder. The post is within the PICT (Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training) team.

You will be a core member of the multi-disciplinary PICT team, supporting the implementation of consultation and training to staff working across the primary care network with people with personality disorder, bringing a lived experience perspective to the design and delivery of those trainings and consultations.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

To co-deliver PICT trainings, alongside a PICT psychologist or psychotherapist

To provide expert consultations to primary care staff on working with people with personality disorder, alongside a PICT psychologist or psychotherapist

To contribute towards the development and evaluation of PICT trainings and consultations

To promote the PICT service across a wide range of teams through co delivering presentations to a wide range of professionals on the work of the PICT team

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity for a full or part time band 5 trainer with lived experience. The post offers experience in training a range of professionals in primary care and across statutory and voluntary sector services who support people experiencing complex emotional needs and personality disorder across Surrey Heartlands and NE Hants. We have recently offered training to GP surgery staff, family centre teams, Citizens’ Advice Bureau and Surrey Police. We train both in person and online. You will join a friendly and supportive team of staff of lived experience trainers, psychotherapist, clinical psychologists and an administrator. As we are a newly established service, this would be a diverse role with opportunities to contribute to the development of the service as well as co-produce and co-deliver consultation and training. There will be opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills through CPD, training and reflective practice. In addition, SABP has a dedicated peer support network for those using their lived experience in their role as well as a Trust wide network for all staff with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

As an early implementer site for new models of care, we have a comprehensive primary care personality disorder service as well as established primary care MH teams working alongside GP practices. We are currently developing integrated care pathways across primary and secondary care.

My job makes better lives by working to deliver on our aspiration to ensure that we provide outstanding quality care and support. The post holder will bring lived experience and knowledge of personality disorder or difficulties to support the delivery of consultation and training to the wider primary care system, focusing on the upskilling of a wide range of professionals and teams, helping them to understand and work with compassion and confidence with people with traits, or a formal diagnosis of, personality disorder. The post is within the PICT (Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training) team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Knowledge regarding personality disorder, obtained through lived experience and working within mental health services
  • Driving licence suitable for use in the United Kingdom
  • Access to a vehicle for work purposes
  • Skills required:
  • Ability to confidently train online and face to face
  • Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously
  • Ability to self-reflect and to enable self-reflection in others
  • Capacity to respond sensitively to the distress of others
  • Ability to identify and take steps to support own wellbeing.
  • Ability to participate openly and reflectively in supervision to continue learning.

Desirable

  • Degree level of education
  • Training or teaching qualification

Experience

Essential

  • A minimum of one years experience delivering education and/or training in a mental health setting i.e. Recovery College, mental health services, third sector etc. or an educational setting related to mental health.
  • A minimum of one year of using your lived experience of personality disorder in a work role

Desirable

  • Experience of working in and across multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience of supporting and leading others in a work setting
  • Project management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Third Floor, Leatherhead House

Station Road

Leatherhead House

Surrey

KT22 7ET

Employer’s website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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