Advanced Lived Experience Educator

Have you personally used inpatient mental health services and been subject to restrictive practices during your care? Are you an experienced peer or lived experience practitioner who can use your professional and personal experience reflectively, safely and purposefully to improve staff learning, safety and culture?

Please note: This vacancy does not meet the criteria for Skilled Worker sponsorship, unless you meet the criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. "Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024."

As such, if you don't meet the Transitional Provision (above) we are unable to consider your application unless you can provide documentary evidence of your right to work in the United Kingdom. If you believe you are eligible for sponsorship or already hold a valid right to work in the UK, please ensure you provide full details of your immigration status in the Pre-Screening Immigration section of your application form.

Please note role eligibility also depends on whether the role meets the salary threshold for the relevant occupational code (SOC CODE)., Please see attached JD and Person Specification.

The postholder will be an integral member of the Reducing Restrictive Practices Team and will also contribute to CNWL's wider peer and lived experience workforce. You will:

Co-design and co-deliver trustwide RRP training, bringing a clear lived experience perspective to the prevention and therapeutic management of violence and aggression.

Teach, assess and actively participate in the specialist physical elements of RRP training, while promoting de-escalation, prevention, dignity, agency and the least restrictive approach.

Help create psychologically safer learning environments and respond appropriately when staff become distressed or affected by the subject matter, including signposting to further support.

Use experiential knowledge to help staff understand how distress, power, risk, identity, trauma and restrictive interventions may be experienced by the person receiving care.

Provide professional peer supervision, mentoring and development support to Senior Peer Tutors and Peer Tutors, with delegated management responsibilities where agreed.

Consult with inpatient teams and services, including in complex or highly sensitive situations, and contribute to learning, reflective debriefs and improvement following incidents.

Support link inpatient sites to develop, recruit and induct new peer and lived experience roles and to prepare teams to work effectively with those roles.

The postholder will be required to demonstrate, assess and take part in highly specialised physical skills used in delivery of RRP training. The ability to undertake these essential duties safely is required, following OH assessment and completion of the relevant tutor training. CNWL will consider reasonable adjustments wherever these can enable the essential functions of the role to be carried out safely but please be aware that a level of physical fitness will be required.

This role sits at the intersection of patient safety, education and lived experience practice. You will join an established peer and lived experience workforce and will receive line management, professional peer supervision and access to learning and development. You will work with colleagues who are committed to co-production, equality, recovery, human rights and improving the experience of people receiving inpatient care. Please use your supporting statement to show clearly how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification.