Lived Experience Researcher / Educator

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: o Lead and coordinate the Lived Experience (Expert Patient) programme in Chesterfield o 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."

• 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