Associate Director for Lived Experience and Corporate Coproduction
Job overview
Do you hold lived experience of a life altering health condition? Are you an experienced peer/ lived experience leader with a track record of bringing insights from lived experience into strategic contexts? Do you hold expertise in supporting others to understand and apply different engagement methodologies- from coproduction, to involvement and participation?
The Associate Director for Lived Experience and Corporate Coproduction will be responsible for the oversight and strategic and operational leadership of the Corporate located Lived Experience and Co-production Teams within MPFT, compromising of the Wellbeing and Recovery College, Coproduction and Involvement team and Coproduction in Continuous Improvement focused colleagues.You will guide and support these colleagues in MPFT’s interface with communities, ensuring we hear and respond to patients, service users and carers as effectively as possible, wherever possible partnering directly with the people we serve to identify the innovative solutions to complex health and social care challenges.
Proposed interview dates for this position will be the 15th and/or 16th May 2025
Main duties of the job
You will advise the Deputy Director on the strategic development of the co-production and lived experience agendas with the corporate teams at MPFT, ensuring that all lived experience workers meet professional standards and all workstreams are guided by recognised best practice.The postholder will also act as a member of the Director for Lived Experience’s senior management team and hold delegated responsibility on behalf of the Deputy Director for Lived Experience when required.
To assume the role of most senior practitioner in the lived experience workforce within corporate services; providing effective strategic professional and clinical leadership to all lived experience workers across the services;Collaboratively work to support the development and articulation of best practice in the lived experience workforce, providing assurance of effective governance across the profession;
To ensure personal recovery principles and a social inclusion framework are retained at the heart of all lived experience workforce roles, ensuring that people who use services and their supporters participate and contribute to the process;
To provide support to external partners such as Higher Education Institutions, subcontractors and others in order to facilitate and promote recovery focussed practice and social inclusion, in line with the Trust’s vision
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure that the corporate based lived experience workforce, Wellbeing & Recovery College staff and Coproduction and Involvement focused colleagues are kept updated regarding national, system, region-wide and Trust developments;To represent the lived experience workforce and coproduction focused workforce across MPFT in relevant local, regional and national forums which benefit the Trust;
To lead in the development and implementation of planning and strategies for the corporate lived experience workforce and co-production agendas;
To liaise regularly with Trust Professional Leads for Lived Experience Practice and other corporate directors regarding development of lived experience services, co-production and involvement within their area;
To support the Trust in its contribution to the wider public understanding of what it means to have lived experience of a life affecting health journey, and the reduction of stigma and discrimination;
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Completion of Peer Support training or equivalent
- Leadership training
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to master's level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Experience
Essential criteria- Extensive working experience as a peer worker in both training and clinical contexts
Experience
Essential criteria- Extensive experience of providing leadership to a large number of peer workers
- Significant experience operating at, or immediately below, board level