Lived Experience Practitioner - Erith, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Erith, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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The role is part of an initiative to employ people with lived experience of psychosis with a specific focus on supporting the integration of physical health care into specialist mental health services.

This is done through harnessing your own knowledge whilst valuing the experiences and views of your clients in a safe and therapeutic way.


To effectively contribute to the delivery of integrated mental and physical healthcare in an EIP team using the skills and knowledge gained through having lived experience of Psychosis and the mental health services, not exclusively EIP.


To have a rich understanding of local community resources that can be accessed to improve their physical and mental well-being and staying up to date with accessible support services outside of EIP.


You will play a key role in engaging with local services and advocating on behalf of clients and EIP services.


To increase awareness and keep a live electronic resource of activities and services that can be accessed outside of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Services to promote balanced well being.

To help build positive relationships between your team and outside services and organisation.


To support clients to engage in activities in the community including joint participation and introduction in line with clients preferences.


To be aware and highlight the diverse needs of clients to ensure that interventions and activities offered reflect the needs of the clients and local communities.

To promote a culture of balanced wellbeing with self, staff, clients and carers.

To support the evaluation and impact of the role.

To keep up to date on the latest Integrated Care developments and research.

To draw on your own lived experience of managing your health in a holistic and integrated way.

To ensure accurate and timely records are maintained in line with Trust policy.

To assist the service user to understand their rights and choices within the service.

Oxleas - About Us


Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We're Kind
  • We're Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care


To increase awareness and keep a live electronic resource of activities and services that can be accessed outside of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Services to promote balanced well being.

To help build positive relationships between your team and outside services and organisation.


To support clients to engage in activities in the community including joint participation and introduction in line with clients preferences.


To be aware and highlight the diverse needs of clients to ensure that interventions and activities offered reflect the needs of the clients and local communities.

To promote a culture of balanced wellbeing with self, staff, clients and carers.

To support the evaluation and impact of the role.

To keep up to date on the latest Integrated Care developments and research.

To draw on your own lived experience of managing your health in a holistic and integrated way.

To ensure accurate and timely records are maintained in line with Trust policy.

To assist the service user to understand their rights and choices within the service.
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