Lived Experience Lead for Service User Network

Are you someone with personal experience of personality disorder or significant mental health challenges who wants to make a real difference by supporting others who have been through similar struggles? If so, we have an exciting part time opportunity based out of Erlegh House, Reading, for you to join our team as a Lived Experience Lead within the Service User Network (SUN). SUN is a community-based initiative designed to provide support for people living with complex emotional difficulties or personality disorders. The SUN service offers peer support groups where members can both give and receive support, creating a space where lived experience is valued, whether or not they are currently in touch with mental health services or have a formal diagnosis. In this role, your own lived experience will be one of your greatest assets. You'll help shape and lead the SUN team working with clinicians and lived experience facilitators as part of an MDT team. Your role will also involve deputising for the service manager when required. Together, you'll create a supportive, compassionate environment where members feel heard, understood, and empowered., Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Group Co-Facilitation: Working alongside others to lead peer support groups, sharing insights from your own journey.
• Supporting Facilitators: Providing guidance, supervision, and encouragement to our team of lived experience facilitators.
• Collaboration: Working closely with the SUN Team Manager to ensure the service runs smoothly and meets the needs of our members.
• Line Management: Helping manage and support the SUN Lived Experience workforce.
• Flexibility: You'll need to travel to other locations across Berkshire whilst also having an option to work from home when appropriate.
  
  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust isa specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish. Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites