Recovery and Involvement Lead - York, United Kingdom - Priory Healthcare

Priory Healthcare

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York, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting job opportunity has come up at
The Priory Stockton Hall Hospital in York for a
Recovery and Involvement Lead

Based in the historic city of York,
Stockton Hall Hospital is a 112 bedded Forensic medium secure psychiatric hospital, which cares for both mental illness and learning disability patients, which includes an Autistic Spectrum Disorder service and a female service.

The values of Stockton Hall Hospital are what we believe in and what you can count on:

Highest level of Quality
Caring Safely
Integrity
Working together
Valuing people

Stockton Hall Hospital has a reputation for providing high standards of care and treatment to all patients.

The role will be to empower patients and educate staff on the importance of Service User Involvement at site and regionally.

You will have the drive and determination to enable the patients to have a voice about their current and future care and treatment.

The role involves taking the lead with all aspects of Recovery and Involvement for the patients including the well-established Recovery College and Service User Involvement forum across the hospital.

You will support patients to represent the hospital at the Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Network meetings, Priory Service User Involvement and at National Service user Conferences

Support will be provided from the Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Service with peer support, coaching and mentoring opportunities for ongoing personal development within the role.

You will be responsible for supporting patients to complete Priory patient involvement questionnaires and surveys and the Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Network benchmarking tools including the regional Se-QUINs.

You will plan, facilitate and chair a range of service user meetings, as well as support patients to be represented in other meetings around the hospital such as Safeguarding, Hospital Clinical Governance and reducing restrictive practice meetings.

You will work alongside the Occupational Therapy manager to ensure that a recovery focus is embedded in all aspects of the hospital.

You will have previous experience of working within the field of mental health, and be passionate about the value of service user involvement and the recovery approach in care.

IT skills, particularly in relation to Microsoft publisher and excel are desirable, as is being a driver. You need to be innovative, creative, well organised and forward thinking.

Some of the benefits we will offer you:

25 days' annual leave plus 8 bank holidays increasing to 30 days plus bank holidays with length of service
Extra Service Annual leave awards
An employee assistance programme
Supplemented meals/refreshments when on duty
Free car parking
Staff Gym Available on certain Times