SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery

Number of Consultants for the service: 1 WTE for rehabilitation.
Multidisciplinary Team including junior staff: Full-time Secretary, SHO, Occupational Therapists, RMNs,
Nursing Assistant; Service Core Leadership Team also includes Nurse Team Manager, Clinical Psychologist and
local Operations Manager.
Teaching opportunities: These are substantial; we see ourselves as a teaching and training resource for
rehabilitation and for recovery orientated practice. We are part of an ambitious training strategy to increase
recovery awareness and skills across the Trust and have rich connections with regional and national
rehabilitation and recovery initiatives. All of these generate teaching needs and opportunities which can
incorporate the post holder.
Research interests: Dr Rani Bora is an enthusiastic trainer and accredited life coach. She is passionate about
bringing her coaching skills into the work place and has trained several teams on application of coaching skills
in routine practice. Her research interest is centred around mental well-being promotion, personal
development and self-management. Another key research interest is around promoting physical health and
looking at ways to increase motivation, especially for people with mental health difficulties. Her recent
research project about implementing 5 ways to well-being has been cited as an example of good practice in the
NHS Confederation’s national review of the implementation to Five Ways to Well-being. She and her
colleagues produced a number of resources including a comprehensive report, self-help booklet, promotional
film and power-point presentation all of which are freely available to download from the Devon Partnership
Trust website http://www.devonpartnership.nhs.uk/Looking-After-Yourself.342.0.html or from the Recovery
Devon website http://www.recoverydevon.co.uk/.
Dr Bora is a member of the steering group for the Trust IMROC (Implementing Recovery Oriented Practise)
project, which is a national initiative led by the NHS Confederation and the Centre for Mental Health Services
Development aimed at developing recovery orientated mental health services. She is an active member of at
least 3 of the work-streams focussing on transforming workforce, redefining engagement with people using
services and promoting well-being within the wider community.
Educational programme: The Specialty Trainee would be in an apprenticeship role, learning rehabilitation
psychiatry through joining both an inpatient and community team and taking a responsible clinical role. The
service itself is being actively redesigned and redeveloped and the trainee would participating in learning how
to engage with shaping and remodelling practice and services, incorporating new developments and the
complex process of recommissioning existing ones. The Specialty Trainee would shadow the Consultant
clinically and in service development and planning processes and would be supported to take up specific
projects when ready. There will be ample opportunities to develop the whole range of specialist competences.
There are substantial opportunities for teaching and in developing organisational and leadership skills
depending on trainee's interests and availability. We are the specialist service for Devon and aspire to being
the core resource for teaching and training in rehabilitation and recovery locally and to provide a national
model. We are also engaged with projects focusing on the well-being of the workforce to support practitioners
developing their personal experience as expertise in recovery-focused practice. We are also working on the
routine use of recovery outcome measures, supporting the development of peer support, recovery coaching,
person-centred medicines management and supporting self management – and other Trust-wide
developments. Each trainee’s personal programme will be built on gaining core specialty competencies and
pursuing their particular interests and needs.
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