Are you committed to making a real difference in perinatal mental health care? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual with lived experience of perinatal mental illness to join Steps Together - the West Midlands Perinatal Provider Collaborative - as an Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner in Co-production.
This exciting new role offers the opportunity to work alongside the provider collaborative team, leading the lived experience strategy for the perinatal services, to influence and co-create services that truly reflect the needs of service users and their families.
As part of our collaborative team, you will work across the West Midlands, leading and facilitating co-production and working to dissolve power imbalances, ensuring the voices of those accessing services are heard and integrated into every level of service design. This is a hybrid working role with a combination of home working, office hours and independent travel to our sites across the West Midlands. This is a rewarding opportunity to combine your personal experience with a professional focus on constantly improving mental health care.
Candidates are welcome to contact us to discuss the job role prior to application.
Main duties of the job
It is anticipated that this will be a dynamic role with lots of variation and will include tasks such as:
Leading co-production activities, ensuring service users and carers have a direct say in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of services. Providing leadership and supervision to the Lived Experience workforce and our Perinatal Lived Experience network. Developing and implementing innovative engagement opportunities for people involved in services to contribute to service development and quality assurance. Develop and facilitate training sessions and engagement opportunities to enhance understanding of co-production practices and patient experience. Collaborate with staff, people who access our services and external partners to create an inclusive responsive care environment.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by Supporting your career development and progression. Excellent NHS Pension scheme. Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Options for flexible working. Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave. Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources. If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients. Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate. Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates. Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k. Free car parking at all trust sites. Free flu vaccinations every year. Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will: Actively promote, co-ordinate, and facilitate co-production and involvement opportunities at all levels across the collaborative. Use your lived experience to shape service development, ensuring care aligns with the diverse needs of people who access our services and their loved ones/families. Lead the development of engagement strategies to strengthen the lived experience network, offering leadership, support, and professional supervision to those contributing to the network on a sessional or ongoing basis. Monitor and evaluate service delivery, using feedback to drive improvements and ensure services meet the diverse needs of the perinatal population. Build and maintain strong relationships with partner organisations, local communities, and other stakeholders to ensure services are responsive and inclusive. Play an active role in steering groups, governance meetings, and decision-making forums, ensuring the lived experience perspective is included in planning and quality assurance.
This is an exciting and dynamic role where you will be an integral part of shaping the future of perinatal mental health services in the West Midlands. If you have lived experience of perinatal mental illness, a working understanding of systems and processes used to design and deliver high quality services, and are dedicated to driving change through co-production, we would love to hear from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Undergraduate degree or able to demonstrate equivalent skills in research, writing or analysis.
Desirable
Peer support worker training.
Experience
Essential
Lived experience of recovery from mental and emotional distress, and experience of using perinatal care mental health services.
Desirable
Experience of working in an NHS or similar statutory setting.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
Understanding of perinatal mental health problems, and the challenges co-existing with this, and the impact this can have on individuals, carers and their families.
Desirable
Literacy in quality improvement methodology.
Personal Attributes
Essential
An ability to independently travel throughout the West Midlands on a regular basis as required. Passion for partnership working, engagement, participation and co-production.
Employer details
Employer name
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Mellor House, St George's Hospital
Corporation Road
Stafford
ST16 3SR
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr
This exciting new role offers the opportunity to work alongside the provider collaborative team, leading the lived experience strategy for the perinatal services, to influence and co-create services that truly reflect the needs of service users and their families.
As part of our collaborative team, you will work across the West Midlands, leading and facilitating co-production and working to dissolve power imbalances, ensuring the voices of those accessing services are heard and integrated into every level of service design. This is a hybrid working role with a combination of home working, office hours and independent travel to our sites across the West Midlands. This is a rewarding opportunity to combine your personal experience with a professional focus on constantly improving mental health care.
Candidates are welcome to contact us to discuss the job role prior to application.
Main duties of the job
It is anticipated that this will be a dynamic role with lots of variation and will include tasks such as:
Leading co-production activities, ensuring service users and carers have a direct say in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of services. Providing leadership and supervision to the Lived Experience workforce and our Perinatal Lived Experience network. Developing and implementing innovative engagement opportunities for people involved in services to contribute to service development and quality assurance. Develop and facilitate training sessions and engagement opportunities to enhance understanding of co-production practices and patient experience. Collaborate with staff, people who access our services and external partners to create an inclusive responsive care environment.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by Supporting your career development and progression. Excellent NHS Pension scheme. Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Options for flexible working. Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave. Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources. If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients. Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate. Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates. Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k. Free car parking at all trust sites. Free flu vaccinations every year. Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will: Actively promote, co-ordinate, and facilitate co-production and involvement opportunities at all levels across the collaborative. Use your lived experience to shape service development, ensuring care aligns with the diverse needs of people who access our services and their loved ones/families. Lead the development of engagement strategies to strengthen the lived experience network, offering leadership, support, and professional supervision to those contributing to the network on a sessional or ongoing basis. Monitor and evaluate service delivery, using feedback to drive improvements and ensure services meet the diverse needs of the perinatal population. Build and maintain strong relationships with partner organisations, local communities, and other stakeholders to ensure services are responsive and inclusive. Play an active role in steering groups, governance meetings, and decision-making forums, ensuring the lived experience perspective is included in planning and quality assurance.
This is an exciting and dynamic role where you will be an integral part of shaping the future of perinatal mental health services in the West Midlands. If you have lived experience of perinatal mental illness, a working understanding of systems and processes used to design and deliver high quality services, and are dedicated to driving change through co-production, we would love to hear from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Undergraduate degree or able to demonstrate equivalent skills in research, writing or analysis.
Desirable
Peer support worker training.
Experience
Essential
Lived experience of recovery from mental and emotional distress, and experience of using perinatal care mental health services.
Desirable
Experience of working in an NHS or similar statutory setting.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
Understanding of perinatal mental health problems, and the challenges co-existing with this, and the impact this can have on individuals, carers and their families.
Desirable
Literacy in quality improvement methodology.
Personal Attributes
Essential
An ability to independently travel throughout the West Midlands on a regular basis as required. Passion for partnership working, engagement, participation and co-production.
Employer details
Employer name
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Mellor House, St George's Hospital
Corporation Road
Stafford
ST16 3SR
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr
