Do you have lived experience of recovery from an eating disorder? Are you passionate about ensuring that patients' voices are heard? The FREedOM Provider Collaborative is seeking a Lived Experience Practitioner to join our small, friendly, and supportive team.
The Provider Collaborative recognizes that the Lived Experience Practitioner role is essential in ensuring that service users, their families, and carers are central to decision-making about their care. Your voice and views will be valued, and we actively encourage new ideas and innovations.
Under the guidance of the Quality and Safeguarding Lead and with support from the commissioning team, you will work collaboratively with experts by experience (EBE) and colleagues through models and techniques of participation. You will play a key role in supporting, developing, and embedding co-production principles across the Provider Collaborative, contributing to the development and implementation of participation and experience plans.
This is a permanent part-time role, consisting of 30 hours, with flexible scheduling. The role requires a presence across our PC sites, so being a driver is essential. The role is primarily based on working from home.
With support, you will lead the delivery of engagement workshops, training, and activities with service users, carers, families, and staff to support service development and quality oversight.
You will organize your workload using independent judgment to prioritize tasks and duties. Collaboration with FREedOM PC Providers to establish best practices for service user engagement, including face-to-face or virtual workshops and research activities such as surveys, will be part of your responsibilities.
Maintaining good communication with team members, disciplines, and other services professionally is essential. You will also guide and inform the implementation of FREedOM PC’s clinical model through personal experience and collaboration with service users and carers, ensuring their voices are central to the model.
Across the PC’s footprint, you will promote innovative and creative approaches to improve the experience of adults using eating disorder services across Dorset, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, along with their carers and families.
The successful candidate must be willing and able to undertake relevant training to support the role and service needs.
At Dorset HealthCare, we aim to empower people to make the most of their lives through outstanding, integrated healthcare services. We are a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC in 2019, serving a population of almost 800,000 with a wide range of community and mental health services.
We prioritize a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and encouraged to be authentic. Our workforce of 7,000 is at the core of our success, and we are committed to building a workplace for the future.
Join us to challenge yourself, build your career, and contribute to our vision of continuous improvement through excellence, compassion, and expertise.
For further details or informal visits, please contact:
Name: Kelly Sebastian
Job title: Quality & Safeguarding Lead
Email: kelly.sebastian@nhs.net
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