Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (9am 5pm 4 days per week)
- Job ref
- 383-COR-5151-24
- Employer
- Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medical Annexe
- Town
- Derby
- Salary
- 拢26,530 - 拢29,114 pa, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lived Experience Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 4
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career?听 Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 鈥榤aking a positive difference in people's lives鈥.
We鈥檝e been rated 鈥榞ood鈥 overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services.听 The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues 鈥渢reated patients with compassion and kindness鈥 and 鈥渇elt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our 鈥淧eople First Culture鈥 which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
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Job overview
We are seeking a well motivated, compassionate individual with lived experience of mental ill health within old age psychiatry, either through own personal experience or through a caring role. Your function would be to educate medical students from Nottingham University using your lived experience as a tool to aid understanding that can not be found in books. Lived experience is a vital element of our medical education programme which we actively promote and support.听
Main duties of the job
Contribute to the development and delivery of the 鈥楲ived Experience鈥 learning across听 the undergraduate and graduate entry medical student training programme in Derby & Chesterfield with a friendly and caring approach.
听Support in further development and delivery of the expert patient programme in Derby & Chesterfield.听
Work with educational/training leads to further develop the experiential learning training听 programme involving expert patients.听
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Working for our organisation
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 鈥榤aking a positive difference in people's lives鈥.
The team are made up of a Senior nurse, Lead nurses, registered nurses, specialist support workers, Occupational therapist, a Physiotherapist, a psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrist.
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鈥 service听
- 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.听 听To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site.听 You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Continue to recruit increased numbers of expert patients and carers so that they can share their lived experience to enhance medical students learning.听
Provide training, guidance and support to the expert patients & carers who are participating in the medical students鈥 learning experience in old age psychiatry.听
Escalate any concerns or issues relating to the expert patient鈥檚 wellbeing or the impact of their mental ill health upon others, to a more senior member of the team.
Co-ordinate with the expert patients and carers to deliver lived experience teaching.
听Develop new links with community statutory and voluntary services and work alongside
Clinical educators and consultants to set up new student placements. Maintain positive听 working relationships through liaising and establishing feedback with those community services & resources.
听Provide support and mentorship to the expert patients and carers who actively participate in teaching. 听Collect and evaluate feedback from medical students, staff, expert patients, and carers听 with the teaching team.听
Provide written feedback reports on expert patient and carers teaching content and outcomes.
听Review teaching materials and provide written feedback from a lived experience听 perspective to present to the wider team for review.
听Contribute to data collection and analysis for audit and research to improve the quality of teaching as a part of academic governance.
听Co-facilitate simulation training along with the medical tutors/ clinical educators.
听Follow processes and protocols that seek to preserve the well-being and ensure the safety of the expert patients and carers who contribute to our work.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 2/GCSE Grade C or 4 preferable for English and Maths
- NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent in a relevant field
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
- The post-holder will require lived experience and knowledge of mental health services as either a service user or carer in old age psychiatry
- Experience in participating in teaching and/or training of dementia, delirium, mental health conditions and physical frailty.
- Attend relevant training as identified to fulfil the role of Lived Experience Facilitator. Be able to maintain an up-to-date knowledge and comply with all the relevant trust policies and work in adherence to the trust values.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching large or small groups
Teaching skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to recruit, motivate and support expert patients/carers
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge or experience of teaching/education
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Dean
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Nurse Educator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825 757858
- Additional information
David Hackett -Team Manager
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Recruitment Team
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
1st Floor Kingsway House (Entrance D)
Kingsway
Derby
DE22 3LZ
- Telephone
- 07900 138117 / 01332 564856, option 1, option 1 (please note, my normal working days are Mon, Tue, Wed)
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