Children & Young People's Lead Advanced Lived - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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Are you a passionate and experienced peer worker with lived experience of recovery from mental and emotional distress and accessing secondary care mental health services as a child or adolescent? Have you experienced the transfer of your care from CAMHS to Adult Mental Health Services?


An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled individualto join Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) as our Children and Young People's (CYP) Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner.


Working across CNWL's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and the Young Adult Model of Care (Mental Health), the role will support the development and ongoing delivery of CNWL's Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice provision within CAMHS and the Young Adult Model of Care.

This will include close working, liaison and supervision of staff within our community and inpatient CAMHS and young adult mental health services.


Working across CNWL's CAMHS and the Young Adult Model of Care, the role of the CYP Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner will support the development and ongoing delivery of CNWL's Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice provision within child, adolescent and young adult mental health services.

This will include close working, liaison and supervision of staff within our community/inpatient CAMHS and young adult mental health services.


Across these services, 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 with a number of children, adolescents and young adults currently being supported within CAMHS & the Young Adult Model of Care (Mental Health) for 16-25 year olds and their parents/guardians and families, to facilitate and promote forums for service user and carer involvement, and attend, contribute to, and support delivery of existing participation groups to complement the work of those services.

The postholder will contribute as a leading stakeholder to the establishment of a new Discovery College, a Recovery and Wellbeing College spoke dedicated to children, adolescents, young people, their parents/carers and the staff that work with them.

The postholder will also be responsible for occasional delivery of courses.

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.


Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing those who use the services; and those who support them, with a positive experience.


Our Trust Values are:


COMPASSION:

contribution to a caring and kind environment and recognition that what you do and say can help to improve the lives of others.


RESPECT:
acknowledge, respect and value diversity of each individual, recognition of uniqueness.


EMPOWERMENT:

commitment to providing information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

The Trust endeavours to support all staff to enable them to develop and grow.


PARTNERSHIP:

work closely with others and behave in a way that demonstrates understanding that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and fund our work.


  • Organisational work


1.1 To promote understanding of the principles and practice of the peer and lived experience practitioner roles across CAMHS and the Young Adult Model of Care (Mental Health).


1.2 Collaborate and work in partnerships with voluntary, 3rd sector and statutory partners to support the development of the peer support and lived experience practice workforce and ensure this work is carried out in a collaborative, co-produced and integrated manner.


1.3 To scope out and support teams to consider and implement new Peer Support / Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner roles within their skill mix, and co-run information sessions promoting the roles to external applicants, contribute to shortlisting, interviews or assessment centres and hold oversight for eventual induction of new staff.


1.4 To contribute to site-based management meetings and locality wide meetings regarding the development of Peer Support Workers and Lived Experience Practitioner roles.


1.5 To meet regularly with Senior/Peer Support Worker(s) for individual supervision (line management and professional supervision as delegated by manager).


1.6 To contribute as a leading stakeholder to the establishment of the 'Discovery College', a Recovery and Wellbeing College spoke dedicated to this age group.

This will include attending and organising meetings to report on the feedb
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