Eating Disorders Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner London, England
Job description
Are youa passionateandexperiencedpeer support worker?
Do you want to continue working to support local communities using your lived experience skillset, whilst also leading, supervising and developing our local peer support workforce?
An exciting opportunity has arisen fora highly skilled individualto join CNWL as an Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner, overseeing the development, growth and support of our peer workforce across our Eating Disorders Services.
The Eating Disorders Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will work closely with colleagues in the Eating Disorders Services Senior Management Team, as well as with the Trustwide Lived Experience Practice & Peer Support Lead and Central Lived Experience Team to implement the strategic growth of our peer and lived experience workforce.
They will also have a small amount of time in their role dedicated to continuing to input to service delivery, and be expected to support and promote the local Recovery and Wellbeing College activity within Eating Disorders Services.
Please note onlycandidates who have worked as peer support workersandhave their own lived experience of recovery from an eating disorder will be eligible for shortlisting.
Therefore, please make explicit reference to both of these within your written application in order to be shortlisted for either of these roles.
Interview date: TBC
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Working across this service line, the Eating Disorders Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will support the development and ongoing delivery of CNWL’s Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice provision.
The post holders will work to ensure Peer Support Worker (PSW) roles in Eating Disorders Services are created and undertaken in line with our trustwide policies and practices, and that PSWs and Senior PSWs are suitably supported with their work and that the Recovery agenda is maintained throughout.
In addition, the postholder will contribute as a leading stakeholder within the Recovery and Wellbeing College spokes and will be responsible for occasional delivery of Recovery and Wellbeing College courses.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
- To promote understanding of the principles and practice of the peer and lived experience practitioner roles across CNWL Eating Disorder Services.
- To meet regularly with Senior Peer Support Worker(s) for individual supervision (professional supervision and line management as delegated by manager).
- To contribute to the Eating Disorder Services Senior Management Team meetings, site-based management meetings and locality widemeetings regarding peer working and lived experience practitioner roles and perspectives.
- To contribute as a leading stakeholder to the local Recovery and Wellbeing College spoke. This will include attending and organising meetings to report on the feedback and delivery of Recovery and Wellbeing College snapshots across sites and regular liaison with the central Recovery and Wellbeing College team.
- To contribute to service development meetings across Eating Disorder Services.
- To coordinate and deliver Team Preparation sessions for teams in the process of recruiting a new Peer Support Worker or Lived Experience Practitioner.
- To scope out and support teams to consider new peer worker roles within their skill mix, and co-run information sessions promoting the roles to external applicants, contribute to shortlisting, interviews or assessment centres and eventual induction of new staff.
- To ensure all Peer Support Workers and Lived Experience Practitioners have a clear, up to date and expert offering to those they work with in regards to community resources to support recovery and social inclusion.
- To propose policy or service changes for their own work area or beyond their own work area that contributes to cultures across eating disorder services that are therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive, flexible and responsive to service user’s needs.
- Promote positive understanding, awareness and attitudes towards eating disorders as part of day-to-day duties.
- Participate in and actively contribute to Lived Experience Practitioner supervision, mandatory training and team meetings, and organisational events as required.
- Ensure excellent communication and liaison with colleagues within the wider services of the Trust, being an agent for change and a champion of recovery in all interactions both within and outside the organisation.
- Be committed to professional development through independent learning, keeping up to date with latest research and building connections with local and national peer networks.
- Promote development of best practices in peer support and Lived Experience Practice across the service through active participation in internal and external training and development programmes.
