The Recovery College Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The Recovery College Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Karen Atkin Service Development Manager

Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change - Im. ROC In February 2011, the Department of Health commissioned the Centre for Mental Health and the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network to pilot the national ‘Supporting Recovery’ programme. The Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (Im. ROC) programme is a (new) approach to helping people with mental health problems that aims to change how the NHS and its partners operate so that they can focus more on helping those people with their recovery. Im. ROC supports local NHS and independent mental health service providers and their partners to become more ‘recovery orientated’.

Recovery Colleges UK • • • 85 Recovery Colleges across the UK Focus on education rather than therapy Offer courses on mental health and how to manage it better Lincolnshire • • • 2014: Opened in Lincoln 2016: Extended to Gainsborough & pilot in Sleaford 2017: Opened in Lincoln FE College and later in the year in New Stamford College People who have experience of mental ill-health working with health professionals and trainers to create and deliver courses 100 s of students have completed the courses 99. 9% would recommend doing the courses to family and friends

Recovery College • Im. ROC explicitly recognise the expertise of mental health professionals and the • expertise of lived experience in a process of ‘co-production’. • A Recovery College is run by both peer trainers and mental health practitioner trainers. All courses are co-produced, co-delivered and co-received by staff, people with mental health problems and the people who are close to them.

Co production • • • The concept of co-production originates from the principles of time banking and reciprocity where people give time to others based on an exchange of expertise. The concept of co-production is mentioned as a key element to mental health delivery in the Government implementation framework ‘No Health without Mental Health’. This states that providers of mental health services, including independent, third sector and statutory providers, have a central role in improving mental health outcomes for individuals and families

Co production cont. . • Co-production is built on the understanding that public services are best delivered ‘with’, and not ‘to’ people. Co-production creates deeper, more durable change than other methods of public service delivery which fail to recognise the value of involving service users. • Co-production demands that public service staff shift from ‘fixers’ whose role is to focus on problems to ‘enablers’ who focus on strengths and abilities.

What’s the difference… A therapeutic approach • Focuses on problems, deficits and dysfunctions • Strays beyond formal therapy sessions and becomes the over arching paradigm • Transforms all activities into therapies-work therapy, gardening therapy • Problems are defined, and the type of therapy is chosen by the professional “expert” • Maintains the power imbalances and reinforces the belief that all expertise lies within the professionals An educational approach • Helps people recognise and make use of their talents and resources • Assists people in exploring their possibilities and developing their skills • Supports people to achieve their goals and ambitions • Staff become coaches who help people find their own solutions • Students choose their own courses, work out ways of making sense of and what has happened and become experts in managing their own lives

Recovery Principles • HOPE • CONTROL • OPPORTUNITY

Courses on offer What is Recovery Living with Psychosis Understanding a diagnosis of BPD Dreaming of a better sleep Communication Skills Understanding your medication Volunteering in Recovery Spirituality Singing in Recovery Lifestyles Matters WRAP Living with Bipolar Living beyond the label Dementia First Aid Creating Hope The really useful toolbox for work Mindfulness/compassion Work Matters Living with Stress Living with Anxiety Telling your story Mental Health Resilience Living in a crisis

What makes us “us” • I am just a patient I am a student like everyone else Professional referral Self-referral Therapist Tutor Discharge Graduation Treatment & support Education courses with objectives and outcomes

Partnership Working • Lincoln College & Stamford College • Integration into the college for all students • Signposting to adult education when appropriate

Summary Recovery is about rebuilding your life: finding meaning in what has happened finding a new sense of self and purpose discovering and using your own resources and resourcefulness growing within and beyond what has happened to you “. Recovery is often defined conservatively as returning to a stable baseline or former level of functioning. However many people, including myself, have experienced recovery as a transformative process in which the old self is gradually let go of and a new sense of self emerges. ” (Deegan, 1993)