OPD Service Lived Experience Practitioner - Self-Harm Training Project

Job Overview We are looking to recruit a motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Lived Experience Educator to join our forward thinking, friendly Health &​ Justice Services EOS team at HMPYOI Bronzefield. Joining our Surrey Prisons’ Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway, you will not only support prisoners that present with complex needs but also have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting trauma-informed care and understanding to the network of staff and professionals around the prisoners. This role will involve working with operational and clinical staff to deliver training and to share knowledge through work with residents and experts by experience.

We provide responsive, dependable and quality care and support to prisoners who present with a high risk of harm to self and/or to others and who are considered stuck in progression with their sentence due to complexities. EOS utilises a Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) framework together with a range of other psychological tools to assist with understanding, support and training needs for those who work with these prisoners. We are seeking a lived experience educator who will co-deliver the Self Harm Training to our workforce and also deliver the Train the Trainer programme for this project. We are also seeking an individual who can meet regularly with incarcerated women in HMP Bronzefield to help refine and improve the Training and ensure that their needs and views are represented, to ensure inclusivity and relevance

Main duties of the job

Supporting and enhancing deliver of trauma informed and women-centred training to address the challenge of self harming behaviours within the prison from a lived experience perspective, with an aim to bring insight and support to the staff working within the system. To work independently according to a plan agreed and reviewed through regular supervision by a qualified applied HCPC registered Psychologist.

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Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing those who use the services; and those who support them, with a positive experience.

Our Trust Values are:

COMPASSION: contribution to a caring and kind environment and recognition that what you do and say can help to improve the lives of others.

RESPECT: acknowledge, respect and value diversity of each individual, recognition of uniqueness.

EMPOWERMENT: commitment to providing information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. The Trust endeavours to support all staff to enable them to develop and grow.

PARTNERSHIP: work closely with others and behave in a way that demonstrates understanding that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and fund our work.

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To contribute to EOS Self Harm Project in delivering and developing the Self Harm Training to staff within the female estate with a focus on recovery, co-production and service user involvement, and the experience of the service user throughout inception and operationalisation.

To work as part of the core team to further refine the training, co-deliver it with qualified clinical and operational staff.

To participate in the development, evaluation and promotion of the Self Harm Training and offer further Train the Trainer courses.

To link into existing forums in, and teams working alongside key members of the EOS Service.

To lead on engagement of service user perspectives in all key deliverables of the Hub through a meaningful approach of shared decision making and collaborative shaping of these.

To offer staff training in formulation of self harm and its functions

To disseminate learning to result in increased understanding of complex behaviours and ways of responding to these.

To provide a transferable model for the delivery of the training.

To offer this training outside of HMP Bronzefield and evaluate its efficacy in enhancing learning

To liaise with OPD and HMPPS psychological services and share developments and outcomes.

Person specification

Education And Qualifications Essential criteria

• Completion of Peer Support and/or Recovery Focused Training
• Undergraduate degree or able to demonstrate equivalent skills in research, writing or analysis
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship or Supervision Training
• Teaching qualification

Previous Experience (Paid/unpaid, relevant to job)

Essential criteria

• Lived experience of time spent in the prison system
• Experience of delivering training
• Working in a recovery focused manner
• Experience of supporting service user involvement
• Experience in using electronic patient records system such as RiO, SystmOne or care notes
• Experience of training or facilitating group-work
• Experience of relationship building and partnership working
• Experience of public speaking
• Liaising and working with colleagues from other disciplines

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in service redesign and development.
• Experience in policy development
• Experience of working as a peer worker or peer trainer

Skills, Knowledge And Abilities Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate first person experiential knowledge of time spent in the prison system and recovery at an expert level
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others
• Awareness of the service user/ survivor movement
• Understanding of the issues and concerns of individuals within the criminal justice system
• Knowledge and commitment to service users’ rights, involvement and service-user led initiatives
• Understanding and practical knowledge of a variety of recovery and socially inclusive approaches
• Knowledge of Trauma Informed Practice
• Demonstrable skills in effective leadership
• Ability to take part in activities for improving quality
• Ability to manage own workload, prioritise and seek creative solutions to problems
• Understanding of the importance of equality and diversity.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person.
• Ability to provide leadership and supervision to the team.
• Ability to deal with pressure, prioritisation and delegation and meeting deadlines
• Ability to work in accordance with Trust Policies and Procedures
• Good IT skills
• Thorough knowledge of social inclusion and the principles of recovery

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of community resources and service user groups
• Knowledge of current legislation which underpins Health and Social Care and a working knowledge of the Equalities Act 2010, Human Rights Act and Criminal Justice and Courts Act

Other Essential criteria

• Ability to travel across the Trust