NHS
Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner
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Job Description
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- To receive regular line management supervision in addition to discipline specific supervision.
- To receive regular line management supervision in addition to discipline specific supervision.
- Completion of Peer Support Training
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Undergraduate degree or able to demonstrate equivalent skills in research, writing or analysis
- Mentorship or clinical supervision training
- Lived experience of recovery from mental and emotional distress, and experience of using secondary care mental health services
- Experience as a peer worker
- Experience of delivering mentoring and/or supervision/appraisal
- Experience of delivering mentoring andExperience of working with a range of organisations to support service users to reach their personal goals
- Experience of delivering mentoring and/or supervision/appraisal
- Experience of teaching and training or facilitating groupwork
- Experience of relationship building and partnership working
- Experience of public speaking
- Liaising and working with colleagues from other disciplines
- Involvement in service redesign and development
- Teaching Experience
- Experience of policy development
- Completion of Peer Support Training
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Undergraduate degree or able to demonstrate equivalent skills in research, writing or analysis
- Mentorship or clinical supervision training
- Lived experience of recovery from mental and emotional distress, and experience of using secondary care mental health services
- Experience as a peer worker
- Experience of delivering mentoring and/or supervision/appraisal
- Experience of delivering mentoring andExperience of working with a range of organisations to support service users to reach their personal goals
- Experience of delivering mentoring and/or supervision/appraisal
- Experience of teaching and training or facilitating groupwork
- Experience of relationship building and partnership working
- Experience of public speaking
- Liaising and working with colleagues from other disciplines
- Involvement in service redesign and development
- Teaching Experience
- Experience of policy development
Job summary
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.
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.
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.
Main duties of the job
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 MDT.
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.
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.).
Engage in self-reflective practices and commit to continued personal development.
About us
CNWL employs over 100 peer workers in a variety of settings.
These include:
Mental Health Services including: Inpatient services (including Older Adult and Rehabilitation), Community Mental Health Hubs, Eating Disorders Services, Perinatal Mental Health Services, The Dual Diagnosis Team, Carer and Parent Peer Support Workers, The Young Adult Pathway.
Services beyond Mental Health including: Complex Care, Addictions Services, Health and Justice, Sexual Health Services, The Recovery & Wellbeing College
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Details
Date posted
27 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£42,939 to £50,697 a year Per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
333-J-HA-0642
Job locations
Argo House
180 Kilburn Park Road
london
NW6 5FA
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Work in accordance with CNWLs Trust Values, Aims and Objectives.
To act as an ambassador for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.
Work at all times to promote equality, diversity and individual human rights.
Be efficient, responsible and maintain a high level of personal organisation; keeping accurate and appropriate records and providing information for monitoring and evaluation as required.
To prioritise your own personal wellbeing, and to seek support if issues arise with work-life balance.
Work flexibly, being prepared to perform other duties commensurate with the role which may include new areas of operation following consultation.
Work alongside and ensure active service user and carer participation in all aspects of work including design, implementation and monitoring of activities.
Learning and development
To participate in Trust mandatory training & development opportunities considered appropriate to the Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner role and as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual development review/ Appraisal.
Job responsibilities
Work in accordance with CNWLs Trust Values, Aims and Objectives.
To act as an ambassador for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.
Work at all times to promote equality, diversity and individual human rights.
Be efficient, responsible and maintain a high level of personal organisation; keeping accurate and appropriate records and providing information for monitoring and evaluation as required.
To prioritise your own personal wellbeing, and to seek support if issues arise with work-life balance.
Work flexibly, being prepared to perform other duties commensurate with the role which may include new areas of operation following consultation.
Work alongside and ensure active service user and carer participation in all aspects of work including design, implementation and monitoring of activities.
Learning and development
To participate in Trust mandatory training & development opportunities considered appropriate to the Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner role and as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual development review/ Appraisal.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Education and qualifiaction
Essential
Desirable
Experience (Paid/Non paid)
Essential
Desirable
Education and qualifiaction
Essential
Desirable
Experience (Paid/Non paid)
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Argo House
180 Kilburn Park Road
london
NW6 5FA
Employer's website
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Argo House
180 Kilburn Park Road
london
NW6 5FA
Employer's website
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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