Working across all of our community and inpatient mental health service sites in the local area of Harrow, the role of the Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will be to support the development and ongoing delivery of CNWL’s Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice provision within the borough.
Across these sites, the postholder will work to ensure Peer Support Worker (PSW) roles are created and undertaken in line with our Trustwide policies and practices, that PSWs and Senior PSWs are suitably supported with their work, and that the Recovery agenda is maintained across sites.
The postholder will work to facilitate and maintain service user and carer involvement initiatives across the borough of Harrow.

In addition, the postholder will contribute as a leading stakeholder within the Recovery and Wellbeing College and will be responsible for occasional delivery of Recovery and Wellbeing College courses.

• Support to establish and cofacilitate a regular Service User and Carer Involvement Group in Harrow, ensuring that it remains a safe space and a platform for involvement and co-production opportunities in the borough.
• Deliver specialist group and 1:1 lived experience based work where appropriate. This may include working alongside service users in developing crisis, recovery and wellbeing plans, Advanced Decisions/Statements and personal network maps, peer groups and other therapeutic groups within the community and inpatient services and facilitation of Recovery and Wellbeing College courses.
• Regularly contribute to trauma informed case formulations alongside the wider MDT.
• Engaging with local community and third sector providers within the borough of Harrow to foster positive working relationships.
• Provide person-centred, strengths-based support, informed by experiential knowledge of lived experience (direct personal experience of mental and emotional distress), supporting service users to maintain or regain a sense of agency and autonomy throughout contact with services.
• Work in highly sensitive and complex situations, at times with people who are experiencing very high levels of distress.
• To keep and maintain accurate, quality and up-to-date records (using the appropriate computer systems including SystmOne.).
• Engage in self-reflective practices and commit to continued personal development.

CNWL employs over 100 peer workers in a variety of settings.

In addition, the postholder will contribute as a leading stakeholder within the Recovery and Wellbeing College and will be responsible for occasional delivery of Recovery and Wellbeing College courses.

• Support to establish and cofacilitate a regular Service User and Carer Involvement Group in Harrow, ensuring that it remains a safe space and a platform for involvement and co-production opportunities in the borough.
• Deliver specialist group and 1:1 lived experience based work where appropriate. This may include working alongside service users in developing crisis, recovery and wellbeing plans, Advanced Decisions/Statements and personal network maps, peer groups and other therapeutic groups within the community and inpatient services and facilitation of Recovery and Wellbeing College courses.
• Regularly contribute to trauma informed case formulations alongside the wider MDT.
• Engaging with local community and third sector providers within the borough of Harrow to foster positive working relationships.
• Provide person-centred, strengths-based support, informed by experiential knowledge of lived experience (direct personal experience of mental and emotional distress), supporting service users to maintain or regain a sense of agency and autonomy throughout contact with services.
• Work in highly sensitive and complex situations, at times with people who are experiencing very high levels of distress.
• To keep and maintain accurate, quality and up-to-date records (using the appropriate computer systems including SystmOne.).
• Engage in self-reflective practices and commit to continued personal development

To participate in Trust mandatory training & development opportunities considered appropriate to the Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner role and as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).

• To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual development review/ Appraisal