Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners (ALXPs) are individuals who have significant professional experience of utilising their recovery journey to work with service users. They are experts in co-production and are involved in service design, training, and consultation for traditionally trained staff.
We have Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners in the following boroughs:
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Brent
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Harrow
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Hillingdon
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Kensington and Chelsea
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Milton Keynes
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Westminster
Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners bring a sophisticated skill set and extensive experience, enabling them to operate at a senior management level. They ensure the consistent inclusion of lived experience perspectives, leading the coordination of local peer roles. Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners map, scope, and strategically coordinate co-production and involvement activities, fostering inclusive and recovery-oriented practices across the areas they oversee.
In addition to borough-based Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners we have the following specialist roles:
The Advanced Lived Experience Educator works within the London Learning Hub, actively contributing to initiatives aimed at improving conditions for both prisoners and the institution itself. They strive to amplify the voices of prisoners, ensuring they are heard and valued, utilising their lived experience and creating a bridge to improve care, empowering individuals to play a vital role in helping others heal.
The Advanced Lived Experience Educator is expertly positioned to highlight areas where services can improve, and advocate for changes that truly make a difference. Their first-hand experiential knowledge supports healthcare providers to develop more personalised and empathetic approaches. This collaboration creates a culture of openness and inclusivity in the healthcare system.
The Advanced Lived Experience Educator (Reducing Restrictive Practices) is responsible for promoting recovery-oriented practices and lived experience perspectives within the Reducing Restrictive Practices Team and CNWL inpatient services, ensuring integration and training of people in peer roles.
The role includes supervising Peer Tutors, co-delivering Trustwide training on the prevention and therapeutic management of violence and aggression (TMVA), and embedding trauma-informed, person-centered care across services.
The Advanced Lived Experience Educator (Reducing Restrictive Practices) collaborates with internal and external stakeholders, contributes to policy and training development, and supports staff wellbeing and professional growth.
The Advanced Lived Experience Employment Specialist supports and supervises Peer Employment Specialists across Central and North West London Boroughs and Milton Keynes, helping them use their lived experience to assist individuals in returning to work.
They co-develop and deliver employment-related training with the Recovery & Wellbeing College, mentor new Employment Specialists, and provide tailored training for Employment Services.
The role includes contributing to strategic initiatives such as the Lived Experience Workforce 5-Year Strategy Plan and ensuring the Exploring Peer Working Course remains relevant.
They work closely with national organisations, employment team leaders, and recovery services to develop best practices to ensure integration of lived experience into employment support.
By combining lived experience with the Individual Placement Support (IPS) model, they help bridge the gap between the Peer Support Framework and Employment Services, ensuring service users have meaningful opportunities to thrive in work and recovery.
The Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner for Addictions is a key part of the Addictions senior management team, overseeing Peer Workers, volunteers with lived experience and service user involvement.
They ensure Peer Support Workers are supported, amplifying the voices of those with lived experience, and integrating their insights into strategy, Quality Improvement projects, and clinical interventions—shaping services to truly meet people’s needs on their recovery journey.
Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners for Complex Emotional Needs work within community hubs using their lived experience of distress which has been understood as personality disorder or complex emotional needs to undertake assessments and evidence-based clinical interventions for people using our services.
They co-facilitate psch-educational courses in a group setting and provide training and consultation spaces for staff. They have had significant experience in working with service users and staff, using their lived experience professionally, as well as additional training in the clinical models they deliver.
The Eating Disorders Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner uses their lived experience of an eating disorder alongside other professional experiences to oversee the provision of peer support, co-production and service user involvement in the service. They have siginificant prior experience as a peer or lived experience worker in either the NHS and/or third sector organisations which they use to supervise Eating Disorders Peer Support Workers and guide their involvement in management discussions on care quality and service provision.
The Eating Disorders Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner may also provide 1:1 peer support and group facilitation within the service.
The Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner for Health and Justice works across the service line, with a key focus on CNWL’s 5 Surrey Prison sites. They draw on their lived experience of recovery following time spent in the criminal justice system, and of recovery from challenges with their mental health, to ensure the voices of those with lived experience are meaningfully heard and influential in contributing to a recovery-focused culture.
They have a leading role in CNWL’s organisational commitment to the Lived Experience Charter, building key relationships with colleagues both in CNWL and in prisons to support people with lived experience of the criminal justice system into employment with the Trust.
They also have responsibility for scoping, mapping and building relationships with people and partners undertaking involvement or participation work in Health and Justice services.
Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner (Single Point of Access & Urgent Care) is a clinical role which uses lived experience to provide telephone support for people using our services during times of crisis.
They bridge community and inpatient services, providing an empathic space which is holistic and person-centred to all callers. They work strategically to increase peer roles and working across SPA and the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS).