Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Lived Experience Facilitator

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Job summary

We are seeking a well motivated, compassionate individual with lived experience of mental ill health within old age psychiatry, either through own personal experience or through a caring role. Your function would be to educate medical students from Nottingham University using your lived experience as a tool to aid understanding that can not be found in books. Lived experience is a vital element of our medical education programme which we actively promote and support.

Main duties of the job

Contribute to the development and delivery of the 'Lived Experience' learning across the undergraduate and graduate entry medical student training programme in Derby & Chesterfield with a friendly and caring approach.

Support in further development and delivery of the expert patient programme in Derby & Chesterfield.

Work with educational/training leads to further develop the experiential learning training programme involving expert patients.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

The team are made up of a Senior nurse, Lead nurses, registered nurses, specialist support workers, Occupational therapist, a Physiotherapist, a psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrist.

Benefits include:

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
Generous NHS pension scheme
Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
Health service discounts and online benefits
Incremental pay progression
Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
Health and wellbeing opportunities
Structured learning and development opportunities

Date posted

17 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year pa, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

383-COR-5151-24

Job locations

Medical Annexe

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3WQ

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Continue to recruit increased numbers of expert patients and carers so that they can share their lived experience to enhance medical students learning.

Provide training, guidance and support to the expert patients & carers who are participating in the medical students learning experience in old age psychiatry.

Escalate any concerns or issues relating to the expert patients wellbeing or the impact of their mental ill health upon others, to a more senior member of the team.

Co-ordinate with the expert patients and carers to deliver lived experience teaching.

Develop new links with community statutory and voluntary services and work alongside

Clinical educators and consultants to set up new student placements. Maintain positive working relationships through liaising and establishing feedback with those community services & resources.

Provide support and mentorship to the expert patients and carers who actively participate in teaching. Collect and evaluate feedback from medical students, staff, expert patients, and carers with the teaching team.

Provide written feedback reports on expert patient and carers teaching content and outcomes.

Review teaching materials and provide written feedback from a lived experience perspective to present to the wider team for review.

Contribute to data collection and analysis for audit and research to improve the quality of teaching as a part of academic governance.

Co-facilitate simulation training along with the medical tutors/ clinical educators.

Follow processes and protocols that seek to preserve the well-being and ensure the safety of the expert patients and carers who contribute to our work.