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Clinical Lead: Lived Experience

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

Whitehaven

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Job summary

An innovative community service is launching in Whitehaven, aiming to transform mental health care with a focus on lived experience. This role is pivotal in leading a team that integrates peer support into clinical practice, ensuring that mental health services are trauma-informed and recovery-focused. The position emphasizes collaboration, co-production, and community involvement, offering a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on mental well-being. If you are passionate about mental health and have the skills to lead change, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • Degree or additional training in working with peers to a master level is essential.
  • 3 years of experience in leadership roles and working with services.

Responsibilities

  • Provide clinical leadership and management for Peer supporters.
  • Implement and monitor systems for peer supervision and education.

Skills

Leadership Skills
Good Communication
Community Change Leadership

Education

Degree in Related Field
Coaching/CBT Training

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about peoples experience of mental health services ?

Are you are great leader?

Are you motivated to work in a radically different model of care ?

Do you have Lived Experience that drives your core values when working with others?

If yes to all of these then we have the perfect job for you.

David Storm ( Associate Director for Community/Access North Cumbria CBU) says:

"The Clinical lead Lived experience post will be a central component of Hope Haven's approach, embedding lived experience as a key element of support and ensuring the voice of lived experience is prominent within clinical decision making, development and ensuring services are delivered with a trauma informed, recovery focus. This ethos supports a radical reimagining of mental health support founded in true person centred care, supporting co-production, family involvement and enabling the community to be the vehicle to support mental wellbeing for all, rather than the sometimes' confining nature of biomedical approaches. Understanding the person's holistic needs from their perspective and co-producing support plans led by the person, informed by their family and supported by partnership working around the person's needs, will offer a new and hopeful approach based on choice, ownership, people and self."

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and professional management for Peer supporters within the Copeland 24/7 hub.This will include bringing lived experience expertise to the wider Multidisciplinary Team, supporting the voice of lived experience in clinical decision making, development and ensuring services are delivered with a trauma informed, recovery focus- supporting co-production, family involvement and service user choice, empowerment, ownership and support.

The post holder will have responsibility for implementing, monitoring and auditing systems to ensure effective and timely appraisal, peer supervision and Peer Education Programme, CPD for all Peer supporters within the 24/7 Hub.The post holder will provide line management for Peer and Carer staff within the Copeland Project, including working within the leadership structure and ensuring lived experience culture is upheld at all levels and challenging/ resolving where this may fall short. Also may provide lived experience lead supervision to colleaguesThe post holder will lead clinical audit, development of professional practice, quality improvement and service development in own area.To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health experiences and learning disabilities, supporting education and training to community groups around mental wellbeing, recovery, mental health experiences

About us

A new community service will offer round-the-clock mental health support in the heart of Whitehaven when it opens later this year called the Hope Haven. The Haven is being funded by NHS England as part of a drive to provide more mental health support in local communities. It will be provided by a group of local organisations working in partnership: Cumbria Health; Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW); Everyturn Mental Health; Home Group; iCan Wellbeing Group CIO; The Well Communities CIC; and the Whitehaven Community Trust.

Our aim is to transform the way mental health care is provided in Copeland. This will bring together specialist health, social care and community services for the first time, so people can get the right help, at the right time as one team, under one roof. We will be open 24/7 and people will be able to simply walk in.. People who are struggling with their mental health will be able to get specialist, intensive support from NHS services and other local organisations all based in the Haven. It will also work closely with existing community support, such as the Whitehaven Family Hub. The Haven will also offer advice on issues which often affect people's mental health, like housing, money and employment. And there will be support for the families and carers of people who are unwell as well as support for people who are at a point of crisis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job advertised - 1st May 2025

Closing date: 15th May 2025

We welcome your application.

Job description
Job responsibilities

See attached Job description for more details

If further information required please get in contact

Job advertised - 1st May 2025

Closing date: 15th May 2025

We welcome your application.

Person Specification

Education/qualifications

Essential

  • Degree/additional training/ Working with Peers to master level
Desirable

  • Coaching/CBT training
Knowledge/experience

Essential

  • specialist knowledge lived experience/3 years of working with services/ leadership roles experience
  • training/evaluation project work/direct supervision of staff
Desirable

  • Risk management training/WRAP planning/ leading change experience
Skills

Essential

  • Considerable experience of leading change in community/leadership skills/good communicator
Person Specification
Education/qualifications

Essential

  • Degree/additional training/ Working with Peers to master level
Desirable

  • Coaching/CBT training
Knowledge/experience

Essential

  • specialist knowledge lived experience/3 years of working with services/ leadership roles experience
  • training/evaluation project work/direct supervision of staff
Desirable

  • Risk management training/WRAP planning/ leading change experience
Skills

Essential

  • Considerable experience of leading change in community/leadership skills/good communicator
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 .

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. .

Additional information
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 .

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. .

Employer details

Employer name

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Hope Haven

Kings Street

Whitehaven

CA28 7JH

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