Recovery College Lead

Job Title: Northeast Essex Recovery College Lead

Location: Northeast Essex (Multiple Locations)

Covering Colchester, Tendring and Harwich up to 3-4 times per week depending on venues and their base will be in the Northeast Essex area, Colchester or Clacton.

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 9 months

37.5 hrs per week (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)

Salary: £37,000 per annum pro rata

With our client, therapeutic optimism is at the heart of everything we do. We believe that everyone experiencing mental health challenges has the potential to grow, recover, and lead meaningful lives. Their Recovery College plays a vital role in this journey—empowering people through learning, shared experience, and achievement.

We’re looking for an inspiring and dynamic Northeast Essex Recovery College Lead to shape and deliver high-quality learning experiences that promote mental health and wellbeing across the community.

As the Recovery College Lead, you will take a central role in designing, coordinating, and delivering educational programmes that support recovery. You’ll work collaboratively with people with lived experience, families, carers, and professionals—ensuring courses are inclusive, engaging, and impactful.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-design, plan, and deliver a range of courses and workshops that promote positive

mental health and wellbeing

• Lead the development of innovative learning opportunities for adults with lived experience, as well as their families, friends, and mental health practitioners
• Deliver some courses directly, while supporting and guiding Tutors and Peer Trainers to co-deliver others
• Work under the guidance of the Training and Business Development Manager to ensure high-quality, consistent delivery
• Provide constructive feedback, advice, and ongoing support to learners
• Create a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive learning environment across all venues

What We’re Looking For

• A strong belief in recovery and the power of learning
• Experience in training, education, or facilitation
• Confidence in working collaboratively with people with lived experience
• Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills
• A passion for creating inclusive and supportive spaces

Why Join our client?

You’ll be part of a forward-thinking organisation that values co-production, lived experience, and hope. This is a unique opportunity to lead meaningful work that empowers individuals and strengthens communities.

Applying for a role with our client will open the door to joining an organisation that has been awarded, at excellence level, the healthy workplace charter 2019, Inclusive Excellence

Award 2024-2025 and retained its Mindful Employer status for a further two years 2024 2026.

Our client cares passionately about all aspects of their staff’s working life, and we don’t just

write it we act on it too.

This spans from how workers feel about their duties and providing them with meaningful work, giving our employees a voice in accepting and utilising feedback, to their working environment ensuring quality and safety of the physical environments for all, and finally a leadership team with a focus on its people. Put us to the test and apply today!

Our client is committed to being an inclusive workplace, and our recruitment process is designed to be accessible to all interested applicants. Please note our client does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Initially, candidates who have been shortlisted will undergo a pre-screening telephone interview, and depending on the outcome candidates will be invited for a face-to-face interview.

Benefit:

• You’ll be added to SAGE Benefits
• x2 death in service salary
• Automatic enrolment on a workplace pension scheme

(after 3 months).

• 27 Days holiday, plus all statutory bank holidays.
• Company Sick Pay after 12 months continuous service.
• Holiday increases to 25 days per year after 3 years continuous service.
• Mandatory Training is provided when and where appropriate.
• Future workforce development opportunities which align with the organisations ethos and values and its growth.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments for all or at any stage of the recruitment or interview process, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Closing Date: 21st June

Shortlisting 22nd June

Interview Friday 3rd July