We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with personal lived experience of mental ill health or caring experience. The successful candidate will join a well-established, award-winning, undergraduate medical education team. The person will join a supportive and varied team made up of lived experience facilitators as well as nursing and medical clinicians. The team is supported by an efficient and well-organised admin team and research manager. The team prides itself on pastoral support for both students and staff. We encourage a relaxed but comprehensive learning experience for students.
Main duties of the job
* Provide pastoral support and advice to expert patients / carers who currently work alongside the Psychiatry Teaching Unit staff team - drawing on their own lived experience of caring for someone with mental illness or recovering from mental illness where appropriate.
* Build rapport with expert patients / carers, displaying inclusive, non-judgemental attitudes always.
* Spend time talking and listening to expert patients / carers.
* Work with expert patients / carers to develop their capacity to contribute to the teaching programme, through coaching and mentoring people who participate in the lived experience parts of the teaching programme.
* Contribute to any review of curriculum content or method of delivery - by drawing on own lived/living experience of mental illness as a service receiver or carer and by supporting and empowering expert patients / carers involved in the programme to be heard.
* Help to enhance medical education overall, by inclusion of lived experience as a central element of the teaching programme alongside clinical teachers.
* Take responsibility for identifying training needs and assist in delivering training sessions for service receivers, carers, and the management team in how to provide appropriate support.
About us
The team is passionate about involving lived experience throughout the curriculum and continues to grow and develop this part of the team. We have one of the largest lived experience programmes in the country and strive to embed this throughout medical education for our students whilst on placement. We are a friendly, approachable, and inclusive team.
Job responsibilities
* Provide support to expert patients / carers who are involved in the lived experience aspects of the teaching programme, drawing on own lived experience of mental illness and recovery where appropriate.
* Build rapport with expert patients / carers and be approachable and non-judgemental - spending time talking and listening to people involved in the programme.
* Provide information on the programme to prospective new expert patients / carers and professional staff.
* Assist with recruitment of expert patients / carers to the programme, particularly seeking to reflect the diversity of Derbyshire's population.
* Attend relevant meetings to keep up to date on any changes or developments within the organisation.
* Work collaboratively with and be prepared to take guidance from colleagues within the teaching team and the wider organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GCSE in English and Maths Grade 4 or above.
* Commitment to the idea that lived experience is a resource that can be drawn on to support student learning.
* Personal experience of mental illness or emotional distress including that of a carer.
* Experience of reviewing teaching/training materials.
* Experience of being in a supportive/enabling role - either professionally or in personal life.
* Completion of peer support training scheme.
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.
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