Are you passionate about using your lived experience to improve physical health services?
CNWL is seeking an experienced Lead Physical Health Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner to lead the development and delivery of Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice across our physical health services.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence service development at a strategic level, embedding recovery-focused, person-centred and co-produced approaches that improve outcomes for patients, carers and communities.
Working across physical health pathways and service lines, you will support the growth of lived experience leadership and peer support practice. You will ensure that Peer Support Workers, Senior Peer Support Workers and Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners are recruited, developed and supported in line with Trust standards and best practice.
Working closely with senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams, you will identify opportunities for lived experience roles to add value, develop the infrastructure needed to support these roles and promote inclusive, recovery-oriented models of care.
You will also play a key role in co-production, creating meaningful opportunities for patients, carers and communities to influence service design, quality improvement and workforce development.
The postholder will contribute to Trust-wide planning for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, ensuring lived experience remains central to service transformation across CNWL.
What You'll Do
Lead the development and delivery of Peer Support and Lived Experience Practice across physical health services.
Support, supervise and champion Peer Support Workers, Senior Peer Support Workers and Advanced Lived Experience Practitioners.
Ensure staff receive high-quality induction, supervision, appraisal, reflective practice and continuing professional development opportunities.
Promote lived experience approaches that support adjustment, hope, autonomy, self-management, recovery and wellbeing for people living with long-term conditions, disability, pain, fatigue, rehabilitation needs and complex treatment pathways.
Lead and support co-production activities across physical health services.
Create and sustain meaningful opportunities for patients, carers and communities to influence service design, pathway development, quality improvement, workforce development and communications.
Work collaboratively with teams and senior leaders across the Trust to embed lived experience expertise within service delivery and transformation programmes.
Support the development of inclusive, person-centred and recovery-focused cultures across physical health services.
CNWL provides NHS services throughout a person’s life, in physical and mental health and everything in between, from GPs and hospitals to the community and in their own home.
Where community care is not possible, we offer several facilities to treat people in hospital or residential environments. We also provide healthcare in prisons in London and the surrounding areas.
Partnerships are central to what we do here— with patients and their families, with staff, and with other organisations, especially commissioners and providers, but also with local authorities, GPs, universities, and the voluntary sector. We envisage more in the years to come.
We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.
Please see the attached job description and person specification
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).
For further info please visit: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
