Workshop Technical Instructor

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CYGNETBURY

Title:

Technical Instructor (Workshop)

Hours of work:

32 hours per week

Department:

Recovery College

Accountable to:

Recovery College Lead

Responsible for:

Developing and delivery of Wood workshop and home maintenance curriculum and the safe management and use of Wood Workshop resources

AIM:

Work within the Recovery College Model to support people’s recovery through mental Health Services using learning and education to build and support the development woodwork and home maintenance skills programmes, working with groups and individuals in our care to achieve their personal learning goals and build confidence and skills in wood workshop.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Professional Practice

Under the oversight of Recovery College Lead, build woodwork and home maintenance skills programme Work within professional Recovery College standards to plan sessions and record development and progress including delivering accredited outcomes for patients. This may include, but is not restricted to:

• Delivering group and 1:1 sessions
• Producing schemes of work, session plans and progress reports
• Supporting team and corporate events
• Supporting individuals in our care to identify and work towards meeting their personal creative goals and aspirations through assessment and group activity
• Working with a degree of autonomy and as part of a team to manage a designated workload within your scope of practice and expertise
• Sharing information effectively and concisely in a range of situations (effective daily documentation; attendance at meetings to handover information; face to face handovers of information to colleagues; report-writing and session planning)

Facilitation of Learning

Identify own learning needs through proactive participation in regular supervision/mentoring. Develop learning plans and use these to deliver woodwork skills and home maintenance sessions. Engaging in ongoing learning, including orientation, induction, mandatory training and relevant educational/development opportunities. Record relevant learning and development activities to identify the impact and benefit of your learning for yourself and those accessing your services (annual appraisal, personal development plan, supervisions). Support staff, carers, and individuals in our care to learn new skills and techniques or regain pre-existing ones (including workshop competencies and build skills in home maintenance). Maintain and manage resources in wood workshop and ensure resources, materials and environment are well maintained and used safely. Contribute to the development and evaluation of educational and vocational resources for students and individuals in our care. Contribute to the supervision, mentoring and education of others (including students) with more experienced colleagues as required.

Leadership

Manage a designated wood workshop workload, identify priorities, manage time and resources effectively with guidance, as appropriate (Record activity on existing systems, use and shared drives, Use Outlook and record all activity on weekly record sheets, report weekly activities in team). Suggest alternative ways to complete tasks without compromising service quality. Alert managers to resource issues which affect learning, development and performance (including service resources/equipment and personal resources), identifying ways to resolve resource issues. Manage own work within complex and changing systems with more experienced colleagues, responding flexibly to the changing political and economic climate locally as this impacts on service delivery. Lead sessions with service users and staff in both groups and 1:1 sessions. Complete and provide ongoing assessment and management of risks for all Recovery College Wood Workshop sessions. Attend Ward Community Meetings, support patients to realise wood workshop opportunities. Lead Workshop co-production projects and support team and corporate events with patients.

Evidence, Research and Development

Research select and apply relevant information to inform workshop practice, with guidance from more experienced colleagues. Understanding of the role of Wood workshop in health & wellbeing & recovery. Gather and disseminate evidence including effecting writing for a range of situations, e.g. emails, internal reports, presentations, study events) with more experienced colleagues.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Attend Community meetings in response to patient requests
• Complete Schemes of work and session plans for all sessions
• All sessions to be planned and delivered with Risk Assessments
• Maintain all workshop resources to a high standard
• At least 70% of TI time is spent in direct face-to-face contact with individuals
• Recording patient contact on Pink Notes and Recovery College weekly registers and provide activity and service user feedback in Team meetings
• Activity areas and workshop store room are kept fully resourced with in-date equipment and materials, and kept clean and tidy with risk processes maintained and evidenced
• Supervision and/mentoring of self and others (including students where appropriate) occurs within expected time frames
• Provide creative support for team and corporate events
• Attend weekly team meetings

General:

To attend for work reliably and punctually and to follow a work pattern as required to fulfil the role, being flexible to the service needs. To actively promote equality, diversity and co-production & challenge unacceptable behaviour and discrimination. To carry out, as and when required, any additional tasks and responsibilities as are reasonably compatible with this job description and its objectives. To remain vigilant and do everything possible to protect individuals in our care and others from abuse of a physical, emotional, sexual, neglectful, financial or institutional nature. This includes a requirement to report any incident of this nature you witness or suspect that is brought to your attention. To use an appropriate level of confidentiality where personal information is involved with regard to both individuals in our care and employees. To work autonomously, demonstrating effective time management and organisational skills, and proactively seeking out additional support if required. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice as expected within Recovery College protocols. To ensure the highest standards of record keeping in accordance with organisational policies and procedures. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and company policies in relation to the specific client group; as well as wider issues affecting our delivery of a quality service. Cygnet is committed to developing effective user and carer involvement at all stages in the delivery of care. All employees are required to make positive efforts to support and promote successful user and carer participation as part of their day to day work.

To be noted:

• The contribution of this role:
  • The way in which this role is carried out will have a direct and highly significant effect on the quality of the entire service provided by the company, and bear directly on how well-equipped teams feel to carry out the jobs they are employed to do.
  • You will therefore be making a very important contribution to other employees, to matters affecting individuals in our care and their experience with us, and to the reputation and achievements of all establishments and the company as a whole.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.

This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.

The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant organisational policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of information.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

JOB TITLE: Technical Instructor (Wood Workshop)

All person specifications will be tested through the application form/CV or through the interview process. Candidates are expected to bring a portfolio/samples of their creative work and will be expected to deliver a short session to staff and service users as part of the interview process.

Essential

Desirable

Assessment

A: Application/document check

I: Interview

P: Portfolio

S: Sample Lesson

Training and Qualifications

Woodwork Qualifications/experience. Evidence of personal development in previous employment and/or education.

• Evidence of experience working with resistive materials

Knowledge

Factual and theoretical knowledge of:

• Understand the underlying principles of Recovery Education in Mental Health settings
• The importance of understanding how woodwork projects and home maintenance activities can contribute to individual sense of purpose and wellbeing and recovery
• The importance of resource management
• Understanding of Risk management and Safeguarding

Factual and theoretical knowledge of:

• A good understanding of Adult learning and the role of wood workshop
• Understanding of a Forensic Mental Health settings

Skills

Work with a degree of autonomy as part of a team, managing delegated activities,