Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner

Working across all of our community and inpatient mental health service sites in the local areas of Hillingdon, the role of the Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will support the development and ongoing delivery of CNWL's Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice provision within Hillingdon.

Across these sites, the post holder will work to ensure Peer Support Worker (PSW) roles are created and undertaken in line with our trust wide policies and practices, and that PSWs and Senior PSWs are suitably supported with their work and that the Recovery agenda is maintained across sites.

The post holder will work to facilitate and maintain service user and carer involvement in the borough of Hillingdon.

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

Main duties of the job

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.

Working across this service line, the Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will support the development and ongoing delivery of CNWL's Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice provision.

The post holders will work to ensure Peer Support Worker (PSW) roles in Hillingdon are created and undertaken in line with our trust wide policies and practices, and that PSWs and Senior PSWs are suitably supported with their work and that the Recovery agenda is maintained throughout.

The post holders will work with a number of people with mental health difficulties currently being treated within local services, to undertake 1-1 lived experience specialist support or run a peer group to complement the work of the service.

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

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.