Lived experience leadership roles are placed across CNWL in a variety of specialist areas. All individuals in these roles hold lived experience of extensive use of health services within their area of specialty and of utilising the resulting insights throughout their professional career. They hold management and supervisory responsibilities, influence and develop trust policy and governance and hold accountability for the quality and safety of the work undertaken by the Peer & Lived Experience Workforce within their specialist remit.
The Advanced Lived Experience Lead for Complex Emotional Needs Training & Development designs and delivers training related to complex emotional needs associated with personality disorder diagnoses.
Their work focuses on creating a compassionate, trauma-informed, and recovery-focused approach while ensuring the training meets the needs of staff serving these communities. They oversee training schedules, update training in line with organisational needs, develop reflective spaces for trainers, manage the Train the Trainers programme and evaluate the training’s impact.
Additionally, they promote good practice in working with service users with complex emotional needs across CNWL and co-facilitate the Trustwide Complex Emotional Needs Service User Forum.
This role links with the Lived Experience Workforce 5-year strategy via its Literacy & Values pillar.
The Deputy Manager for the Recovery & Wellbeing College (Lived Experience Lead) manages the operational running and service developments of the London CNWL Recovery & Wellbeing College along with the Recovery & Wellbeing College Deputy Manager (Clinical Lead) and the team Manager.
This role leads on co-production of Recovery & Wellbeing College delivery, developing the operational structures and processes to ensure delivery of high-quality recovery education in partnership with our communities, ensuring fidelity to the Recovery College approach and role modelling recovery principles (hope, control, opportunity) to our staff, students and partners.
Additionally, this role links with the Lived Experience Workforce 5-year strategy via its Service Cultures pillar. They line manage all Peer Trainers, including Senior Peer Trainers and Associates who work via the bank.
The Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner for Children and Young People works within the 16-25 Young Adult Pathway, transforming services to meet young adults’ needs.
They work strategically to support a team of Peer Support Workers across Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Adult Mental Health Services to engage young adults. This role creates new initiatives to support young adult across CNWL boroughs and develops training packages to enhance staff skills with 16- 25-year olds.
Additionally, this role links with the Lived Experience Workforce 5-year strategy via its Literacy & Values pillar.
The Lead Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner for Perinatal Service works across CNWL's Perinatal Mental Health service line and with the North London Provider Collaborative.
They work strategically to supervise and develop Perinatal Peer Support Workers across the London boroughs and Milton Keynes, including in the Maternity Trauma and Loss Centre and Coombe Wood's Mother and Baby Unit (MBU).
The role also leads on service user and carer involvement within Perinatal services, and holds responsibility for co-producing and co-delivering a Perinatal-specific branch of the Recovery & Wellbeing College, as well as being an integral cog in the mobilisation of the Peer & Lived Experience Workforce Strategy.