Lived Experience Facilitator
Job Description
Job summary
We are seeking a well motivated, compassionate individual with lived experience of mental ill health within old age psychiatry, either through own personal experience or through a caring role. Your function would be to educate medical students from Nottingham University using your lived experience as a tool to aid understanding that can not be found in books. Lived experience is a vital element of our medical education programme which we actively promote and support.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to the development and delivery of the 'Lived Experience' learning across the undergraduate and graduate entry medical student training programme in Derby & Chesterfield with a friendly and caring approach.
Support in further development and delivery of the expert patient programme in Derby & Chesterfield.
Work with educational/training leads to further develop the experiential learning training programme involving expert patients.
About us
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
The team are made up of a Senior nurse, Lead nurses, registered nurses, specialist support workers, Occupational therapist, a Physiotherapist, a psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrist.
Benefits include:
- Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
- 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
- Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Incremental pay progression
- Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
- Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
- Structured learning and development opportunities
Job responsibilities
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Continue to recruit increased numbers of expert patients and carers so that they can share their lived experience to enhance medical students learning.
Provide training, guidance and support to the expert patients & carers who are participating in the medical students learning experience in old age psychiatry.
Escalate any concerns or issues relating to the expert patients wellbeing or the impact of their mental ill health upon others, to a more senior member of the team.
Co-ordinate with the expert patients and carers to deliver lived experience teaching.
Develop new links with community statutory and voluntary services and work alongside
Clinical educators and consultants to set up new student placements. Maintain positive working relationships through liaising and establishing feedback with those community services & resources.
Provide support and mentorship to the expert patients and carers who actively participate in teaching. Collect and evaluate feedback from medical students, staff, expert patients, and carers with the teaching team.
Provide written feedback reports on expert patient and carers teaching content and outcomes.
Review teaching materials and provide written feedback from a lived experience perspective to present to the wider team for review.
Contribute to data collection and analysis for audit and research to improve the quality of teaching as a part of academic governance.
Co-facilitate simulation training along with the medical tutors/ clinical educators.
Follow processes and protocols that seek to preserve the well-being and ensure the safety of the expert patients and carers who contribute to our work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 2/GCSE Grade C or 4 preferable for English and Maths
- NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent in a relevant field
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills
Essential
- The post-holder will require lived experience and knowledge of mental health services as either a service user or carer in old age psychiatry
- Experience in participating in teaching and/or training of dementia, delirium, mental health conditions and physical frailty.
- Attend relevant training as identified to fulfil the role of Lived Experience Facilitator. Be able to maintain an up-to-date knowledge and comply with all the relevant trust policies and work in adherence to the trust values.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching large or small groups
Teaching skills
Essential
- Ability to recruit, motivate and support expert patients/carers
Desirable
- Knowledge or experience of teaching/education
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Medical Annexe
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3WQ
Employer's website
http://www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
