Oliver McGowan Co-trainer (autism) | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,720 - £39,769 per annum including HCAS (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, N15 3TH |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6251682/306-BEH-1957 |
Summary
The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is named after Oliver McGowan, whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training. The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement that regulated service providers must ensure their staff receive learning disability and autism training appropriate to their role.
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, working on behalf of the North Central London Integrated Care System, have an exciting opportunity to join the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Team. We are looking for Autistic Co-trainers to co-deliver the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training for Learning Disability and Autism alongside Facilitating Trainers and Co-trainers with learning disabilities to our health workforce.
This is an incredible opportunity to influence how care is delivered, by providing health and social care staff with the knowledge and skills they need to make a difference to autistic people and people with learning disabilities.
You will be joining a friendly, supportive, and dedicated team who are passionate about making a difference for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
As a Co-trainer you be an expert with lived experience and have a diagnosis of autism. You will be encouraged to share your experiences of being autistic.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
The role plays a key part in delivering The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism to people who work in health and social care in the North Central London ICS.
The successful post holder will be supported to deliver training which will include:
• Learning disability awareness and/or understanding autism.
• Reasonable adjustments.
• Supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people.
• Communication.
The training will be co-delivered with a Facilitating Trainer, and a Co-trainer with learning disabilities.
Training will take place both through 1-hour interactive sessions (webinars) and through face-to-face training at various NHS trusts within North Central London to groups of up to 30 (1/2-day delivery for Co-trainers). The role requires travel to different venues to deliver training.
Full training and ongoing support will be provided to successful candidates to enable them to carry out this role. The role will include ‘Train the Trainer’ training and ‘Training Others’ training to train other experts with lived experience and trainers to become part of the team delivering Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.
The post holder will work as part of an Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Team, alongside other Experts with Lived Experience Co-Trainers, and Facilitating Trainers.
The posts will be working for the partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I),calledNorth London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse.
• Deliver on-going Oliver McGowan Mandatory staff training to NCL NHS Clinical and Non-clinical delegates.
• Communicate information which may be complex and sensitive.
• Develop good working relationships with training teams to co-deliver the training.
• Be reliable and trustworthy
• Be a role model to new starters in the Oliver McGowan training team.
• Participate in relevant Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training planning and preparation meetings, providing information, advice and support where requested to co-produce training materials with Facilitating Trainer and Co-trainers.
• Take part in ‘Train the Trainer’ training and rehearsals to develop skills and confidence to deliver high quality training.
• Review training feedback with the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Team, contributing suggestions for continuous improvement.
• Manage and prioritise day-to-day activities in line with the team workload, priorities, and deadlines.
• Act as an advocate for autism across the NCL NHS Trusts.
• Keep up to date with current and emerging thinking in health and social care practice on autism.
• Use Microsoft applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Jun 2024