We have an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant and ambitious psychiatry education department. We are looking for a compassionate and enthusiastic person with lived experienced of mental health conditions to help embed the voices and perspectives of people with experience of mental health conditions and/or services within psychiatry education and medical education research. Drawing thoughtfully on their own lived experience, the successful candidate will recruit, support and facilitate lived experience volunteers to contribute to educational activities, ensuring involvement is inclusive, meaningful and appropriately supported. They will also draw on their own lived experience to contribute to the research and evaluation work taking place in the department. Working alongside volunteers, educators, researchers and clinicians, they will help co-design and coordinate teaching activities and research and evaluation projects. This is an exciting opportunity to champion co-production and help shape more compassionate, person-centred mental health care through the education of future and current professionals.

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS FT (the Trust) provides psychiatry placement opportunities for medical students attending the University of Nottingham. The Trust seeks to deliver a teaching programme that places the lived experience of mental ill health at the heart of its offer. This is achieved via the delivery of a long established, award winning ‘expert patient’ and ‘carer’ programme.

This role is an integrated Band 5 role combining leadership of the Lived Experience Programme with a Peer researcher role within Medical Education.

The post holder will:

Lead and coordinate the Lived Experience (Expert Patient) programme in Chesterfield
Work with the Research Project Manager to coordinate and deliver research and service evaluation projects within Medical Education across both Derbyshire and Chesterfield

The post-holder will work across two sites, managing defined workstreams, supporting lived experience volunteers, and contributing significantly to the research profile of the Medical Education Department.

The post holder will be managed by the Research Project Manager but will also have wider support from nurse educators and lived experience facilitators.

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’.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

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

Lived Experience Educator: Chesterfield (x2 days per week) - The post holder will:

Lead, coordinate and develop the Expert Patient programme in Chesterfield

Recruit, induct and support Expert patients involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Plan and organise lived experience sessions in collaboration with Clinical Teaching Fellows
Ensure safeguarding, wellbeing and risk management of Expert Patients and escalate concerns to senior clinical lead of lived experience programme
Act as first point of contact for lived experience contributors
Monitor quality and consistency of lived experience teaching delivery
Lead service development initiatives to expand and improve lived experience involvement

Derby (Kingsway) – The post holder might be needed to support occasionally with the following:

Help support and co-facilitate teaching sessions involving Expert patients
Deliver and support simulated patient sessions when the team need additional support
Support induction and reflective learning sessions for medical students

Lived Experience researcher - Derby (Kingsway) (x 3 days per week)

The post holder will:
Co-ordination of projects

Co-ordinate and carry out work as part of ongoing service evaluation, quality improvement and research determined by the Research Project Manager and wider PTU team
Bring the wisdom of your own lived experience of mental health conditions into the research process
Provide assistance with ethical applications, renewals and reports
Contribute to the conception, construction and administration of questionnaire or interview studies
Facilitate the development of evidence-based standards of teaching that incorporate lived experience and research and development
Assist in the development of outcome measures relating to lived experience and teaching impact
Contribute to grant applications where appropriate

Data Analysis & Reporting

Identify, clean and collate quantitative and/or qualitative data
Prepare data for statistical analyses and undertake descriptive and inferential data analysis when asked
Prepare written reports for Trust and University partners
Present service evaluation, quality improvement and research findings to Trust, regional and national meetings
Represent the Psychiatry Teaching Unit or Research and Development Department at information, training events and conferences
Ensure compliance with GDPR, ethical standards and Trust governance requirements
Ensure that data is collected to meet project requirements and in line with legal, ethical and data sharing agreements
Collate and record feedback
Support monitoring of equality, diversity and inclusion within teaching programmes

FOR BOTH ROLES:
Leadership

Exercise autonomy in managing the dual responsibilities across sites, and leading in your defined service area

Supervise and support volunteers/Expert patients

Contribute to recruitment of expert patients and induction processes of expert patients and students

Promote recovery-focused and anti-oppressive practice

Support the strategic development of lived experience teaching

Strive to develop and maintain personal competencies with respect to culture and gender and to promote the same

Promote a culture of mutual respect and collaboration between different professional disciplines to encourage interprofessional learning

Ensure trust policies, procedures, and legislative directives are adhered to

Promote the role of academic and experiential expert patient and carer teaching within the multi professional strategy

Be self-motivated in liaising within community and in-patient teams in developing new student placement opportunities both from a lived experience facilitator and a peer researcher perspective

Clinical and professional issues

Monitor the wellbeing of Expert Patients during teaching activities and to escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately to the Lived Experience Manager

Have a basic overview of general psychiatry clinical services and relevant trust policy to communicate issues of concern relating to an expert patient to the appropriate clinical team

Demonstrate autonomy, actively managing own workload effectively and efficiently, prioritising competing demands

Be aware of professional codes of practice governing students and will report any concerns about these to the medical tutors and associate clinical sub-dean

Exercise accountability and responsibility

Education & development

Monitor and maintain personal practice and development ensuring that all CPD requirements are maintained, with emphasis on research and development in psychiatry

Attend statutory and mandatory training as identified by the Trust

Engage in supervision and reflective practice

Ensure personal development promotes good evidence based standardised practice, prevents poor practice, and intervenes in unacceptable practice

Contribute to the development of a positive learning environment/culture

Strategy and Service Development

Develop the Lived Experience Programme in Chesterfield and contribute to the strategy of developing the work at that site

Contribute to the development and ongoing evaluation of the service

Information resources/information systems

Manage and maintain a range of learning materials and retain records of learning activity and feedback

Use databases and libraries to access up-to-date literature

Use software such as Excel, NVivo, SPSS and Rayyan to manage and analyse data

Autonomy/scope within role

Work within a supportive team, but have more autonomy during the time spent at Chesterfield where they will take a lead in the development of the lived experience programme there

Although supervised by the Research Project Manager there will be scope to work autonomously on areas of agreed responsibility to enable career progression