Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

London NW6 5FA, England, United Kingdom -

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Immediate28 Apr, 2025GBP 50697 Annual28 Jan, 2025N/AGood communication skillsNoNo
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Description:

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.
The postholder will be required to spend 3 days per week across the sites and services in Harrow, with one day per week spent with the Central Lived Experience team.
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.
They will work as part of the wider Multi-Disciplinary-Team to provide support to those accessing services in the borough of Harrow, as well as supporting with the facilitation of groups.
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.

Please see attached JD and Person Specification.

  • To promote understanding of the principles and practice of the peer and lived experience practitioner roles across the borough of Harrow.
  • To meet regularly with Senior Peer Support Worker(s) for individual supervision (professional supervision and line management as delegated by manager).
  • To contribute quarterly update reports for the Borough Senior Management Team meetings, site-based management meetings and locality-wide meetings regarding peer working and lived experience practitioner roles and perspectives .
  • To contribute as a leading stakeholder to the local Recovery and Wellbeing College spoke. This will include attending and organising meetings to report on the feedback and delivery of Recovery and Wellbeing College courses across sites and regular liaison with the central Recovery and Wellbeing College team.
  • Contribute to service development meetings and across Harrow.
  • To coordinate and deliver Team Preparation sessions for teams in the process of recruiting a new Peer Support Worker or Lived Experience Practitioner.
  • To scope out and support teams to consider new peer worker roles within their skill mix, and co-run information sessions promoting the roles to external applicants, contribute to shortlisting, interviews or assessment centres and eventual induction of new staff.

CNWL provides NHS services throughout a person’s life, in physical and mental health and everything in between, at GPs and hospitals to the community and in their own home.
Where community care is not possible, we offer a number of facilities to treat people in hospital or residential environments. We also provide healthcare in prisons in London and the surrounding areas.
Partnerships are central to what we do here – with patients and their families, with staff and with other organisations, especially commissioners and providers but also with local authorities, GPs, universities and the voluntary sector. We envisage more in the years to come.
We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.

Please see attached job description and person specification.

  • 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 Multi-Disciplinary team.
  • 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.
  • To advocate for service users within Multi-Disciplinary meetings, supporting the team to consider different perspectives, ideologies and worldviews.
  • 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.).
  • Respect integrity, confidentiality, clinical governance and data protection requirements in line with Trust policy.
  • Have responsibility for relevant safeguarding issues in relation to service users and their network, including making difficult decisions as a team adhering to the Trust’s Safeguarding policy.
  • Engage in self-reflective practices and commit to continued personal development.

Responsibilities:

Please refer the Job description for details


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