Recovery College Coordinator

Recovery College Coordinator

The closing date is 17 March 2026

Leeds Recovery College delivers a range of community based educational training and wellbeing courses designed to increase understanding of mental health, wellbeing, and personal recovery.

Our courses are open to adults 18+ who live, work, or study in Leeds. We also offer a dedicated programme of courses for staff working across the Leeds health and care system, supporting their wellbeing and personal development.

The Recovery College Coordinator plays a central role in coordinating and delivering our course programmes.
This role has a particular focus on developing and coordinating our staff wellbeing programme.

A key part of the role is leading on course delivery, working alongside co-facilitators to create engaging and inclusive learning environments.

Alongside this, the role supports the smooth running of day-to-day operations, builds strong relationships with students, facilitators, and wider stakeholders and helps ensure a welcoming, recovery focused experience for all learners and staff.

Working closely with the Recovery College Development Lead the post holder will support the day-to-day operational delivery of Recovery College courses. This includes:

• Leading on the development and delivery of mental health and wellbeing courses (with a particular focus on staff wellbeing).
• Ensuring that educational standards and co-production values are maintained.
• Supporting and developing the facilitator base by nurturing both lived experience and learnt experience facilitators. This includes offering training, development opportunities and building confidence and facilitation skills for everyone involved in co-delivery.
• Contributing to the promotion of the college, both digitally and face to face. This will include leading on specific partner relationships, attending network meetings, developing campaigns and events.
• Supporting the overall co-ordination and management of the college including working with the administration team, handling enquiries, liaising with internal and external services and maintaining college records and databases as required.

You will work collaboratively, be open-minded, and bring positivity and a can-do attitude to the role.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and…