Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have personal lived experience of accessing adult mental health services?
Are you a skilled lived experience worker, perhaps as a Senior Peer Support Worker or in another advanced lived experience role?
An opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled individual to join Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) as the Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner across our Milton Keynes mental health service sites.
As a member of the Central Lived Experience Team and Milton Keynes Senior Management Team, the Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will support the development and ongoing delivery of peer support and lived experience practice in Milton Keynes. As a member of the Milton Keynes Senior Management Team (SMT), they will contribute to the strategic planning and evaluation of services across mental health services in Milton Keynes.
The role will be based in Queensway in Milton Keynes, but will work across all Milton Keynes mental health service sites, as well as spending Thursdays with the Central Lived Experience Team (online/in person as agreed on appointment).
Please note that only candidates who have worked as peer workers or trainers (or very similar lived experience-specific roles) and therefore have their own lived experience of mental health services can be considered for this role. Please make clear reference to your lived and professional peer experience in your online application in order to be considered for shortlisting.
Working as a member of the Central Lived Experience Team and Milton Keynes Senior Management Team, the Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will support the development and ongoing delivery of peer support and lived experience practice in Milton Keynes. As a member of the Milton Keynes Senior Management Team (SMT), they will contribute to the strategic planning and evaluation of services across mental health services in Milton Keynes.
This role will include close working, liaison with, and line management/supervision of staff within our community and inpatient adult mental health services.
Across these services, the post holder will work to ensure Peer Support Worker (PSW), Senior PSW and Lived Experience Practitioner roles are created and undertaken in line with our trust wide policies and practices, ensuring that PSWs and Senior PSWs are suitably supported with their work and that the Recovery agenda is maintained across sites.
For a detailed list of duties of the role, including organisational strategic, leadership, specialist and general responsibilities, please see the job description and person specification.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing those who use the services; and those who support them, with a positive experience.

Please refer the Job description for details