Recovery Coach

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Recovery Coach

Closing date: 14 May 2026

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

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

At the time of advertising, this role does not meet the minimum requirements (salary threshold or occupational requirements) set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. For this reason, unfortunately we are unable to sponsor anyone on a visa for this role at this moment in time.

As a Recovery College Coach, you will play a key role in supporting people on their recovery journey through education. You will design and deliver courses and workshops that empower individuals to live well beyond or alongside illness or disability, develop new skills, and move towards a life of value, purpose, and meaning. Working collaboratively with learners and colleagues, you will champion recovery focused values and help people achieve their full potential.

The focus of this role will be expanding our curriculum with courses that support people who may have eating disorders. As part of this, you will engage with the community and work collaboratively with stakeholders in this area, including other services, carers, and people with lived experience.

You will also take on other key responsibilities within the Recovery College, which may include developing and supporting volunteers and working with people with lived experience to strengthen our approach to co production.

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 you'll 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.

You'll 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 Calderdale, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity. As part of our leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping the college's future co ordinating the course offer, supporting supervision, and driving development to maintain excellence and innovation in everything we do.

Job responsibilities JOB SUMMARY

To undertake a Coaching role that supports people in their recovery including researching, producing, facilitating and reviewing educational courses and workshops that enable people to live life well and with opportunities to move into further education or employment. To supervise peer support workers within the recovery college.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

To facilitate educational courses and workshops around all aspects of living life beyond illness with a particular focus on health and wellbeing. This may be in conjunction with people who have lived experiences to help people realise their full potential through learning.

To work with learners in a recovery oriented way at all times.

To supervise peer support workers and ensure these post enhance a person's learning experience.

To continually be aware and incorporate best practice based on contemporary and relevant research findings and outcome measures.

1.1 Care/service/function provision:

• To conduct face to face assessments with learners as part of the enrolment process to ensure the most appropriate course(s) is chosen to help them achieve self responsibility and self determination.
• To work in collaboration with learners to ensure a structured programme is in place for each student including their progress beyond their involvement in the college. This may include planning future goals, utilising such skills as Motivational Interviewing and personal development skills.
• To support learners into one or more of a range of opportunities, depending on individual need, e.g. work experience, voluntary work and paid work, education and accredited courses.
• To work collaboratively with learners in developing appropriate lifelong learning techniques and other strategies with a focus towards further education or employment.
• Be able to recognise the psychological barriers people may face when accessing education, taking into account a person's resilience and current health status and adopting appropriate coping strategies.
• Working with learners and enabling them to reach their potential in preparation for further education or employment. This may include supporting someone through a volunteering process, linking in with other educational facilities and/or recognising barriers to progression and working on these on a one to one basis.
• To develop and maintain effective internal and external relationships and networks for learner referral and sign posting.
• To promote the service by attending meetings with, and by delivering talks and presentations to relevant interested parties, for example service users, our partners, carers, colleagues, employers or their representative bodies.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents. Person Specification Experience

• Experience of acting at supervisory level to junior staff.
• Experience of working with people with mental and physical health issues. This may be in a variety of settings eg:- Job Centre, Charities etc.
• Experience of planning courses and workshops and delivering on these. This would also include reviewing courses based on learner feedback and evaluations and amending as appropriate.
• Experience of developing evaluations and audits and implementing action plans and outcome measures that reflect need to meet service provision.
• To have experience of working with other statutory and non statutory bodies and demonstrate how this positively promotes inter agency collaborative working partnerships.
• Experience of writing service reviews and/or business plans.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in health or social care or degree level BSc, BA
• Level 3 or above qualification appropriate to speciality.
• PGCE or evidence of working towards completion within two years.

Training

• To attend all supervision sessions or notified meetings where relevant.
• To attend all mandatory training sessions.

Special Knowledge & Skills

• To actively and positively promote work in a Recovery orientated way at all times.
• To possess excellent presentation and teaching skills.
• To possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• To have the necessary knowledge to be able to signpost learners onto education and/or employment opportunities.
• To plan and deliver educational sessions either on a one to one basis or in a group setting in a variety of settings.
• Ability to work as a member of a multi skilled team.
• To have the necessary skills to work independently and on own initiative and prioritise workload accordingly.
• To have experience of using Microsoft Office.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
• A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Personal Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
• To be passionate in enabling people to achieve their full potential.
• To be committed to the ethos of Recovery and the Recovery College.
• Commitment to providing an effective high quality and evidence based service which remains compatible at all times with the Recovery College philosophy.
• To possess the skills that help to motivate and develop learners throughout their college experience.

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 name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Laura Mitchell Health and Wellbeing Centre