Lived Experience Engagement Facilitators

Job summary

We are looking to recruit into 2 positions covering our Adult mental health wards or Older Adult and dementia wards in Warwick. Positions can be full-time or part-time. We can be flexible as we are looking for the right people.

• Do you have lived experience of mental ill health, dementia, trauma or distress - either as a patient or a carer?
• Have you been an inpatient on a mental health ward or are a carer of someone who has been an inpatient?
• Are you passionate about patient experience?
• Can you represent the patient perspective in discussions?

For the first time, we're embedding lived experience roles across our inpatient mental health services, and we're looking for lived experience engagement facilitators to join us.

As a lived experience engagement facilitator, you'll ensure that those who access our services have a voice that is heard throughout all levels at CWPT from individual ward rounds all the way through to partnership board meetings. You'll work closely with several wards, developing good working relationships with patients, carers and staff. You'll facilitate sessions and hold spaces for individuals to share ideas on our services and how they are delivered via group sessions and/or one to ones, and will champion co-production in the development of all services. You will then work with our transformation workstreams to feed back any information gathered to co-design our inpatient services.

If you're passionate about co-production, we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role, please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements.

You'll be supported by and work closely with the Expert by Experience Development Lead and other programme leads to support the designing of co-production opportunities and help facilitate engagement sessions for patients to participate in.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• flexible working opportunities
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups.

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.