Senior Carer Co-production and Engagement facilitator

As a Senior Carer Co-Production and Engagement Facilitator, you will be a valued member of supported West Mids. - the West Midlands Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative. Employed by Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust but working across the West Midlands you will work part time hours (18.5 hours per week) with a mix of working from home, community facing and hospital site-based work. You will collaborate closely with our Professional Lead for Lived Experience Practice, who will offer professional supervision, support, and guidance. As part of an organization that values a diverse workforce, you'll find well-established learning and development opportunities., In this role, you'll share relevant personal experiences and utilize insights and skills from your own journey of being a carer to a loved one navigating their way through an eating disorder to support other carers to feel heard and to share their experiences on both a one-to-one and group basis. With the support and guidance of our Professional Lead for lived experience practice you will lead on building up a network of carers who would like to share their experiences to elicit change. You will alsotake responsibility for designated projects and for co-ordinating co-production opportunities, including supporting with training and the production of relevant resources. It is anticipated this will be a dynamic role with lots of variation and will include tasks such as;

• Developing opportunities to engage and co-produce with carers
• Facilitating and co-facilitating workshops to support co-production.
• Co-facilitating training sessions.
• Attending in-person events to promote our lived experience network and available opportunities.
• Creating communication and marketing materials.
• Providing support and supervision to other members of the lived experience workforce
  
  We have an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with lived experience of providing care and support to loved one accessing secondary care services for an eating disorder in a personal / unpaid capacity to join our team as a Senior Carer Co-Production and Engagement Facilitator.
  
  By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.