Job Description

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Lived Experience Senior Project Worker

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About the Role

Project Overview

The Lived Experience Network connects people who have used mental health services in Cornwall with those who design and deliver them. For organisations like the NHS to provide effective and compassionate mental health support, it is essential they listen to, understand, and act on the experiences of the people they serve. The Lived Experience Network plays a crucial role in bridging that gap.

Through the network, we empower Experts by Experience--individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health--to collaborate with health and care organisations. By sharing their perspectives, they help shape and improve services, highlighting both what worked well and what could have been better. In doing so, they gain confidence and new skills, while playing a vital role in improving services for others.

As a Project Worker within the Lived Experience Network, you will support the day-to-day running and development of the project. You will work directly with Experts by Experience, as well as engage with voluntary sector partners, NHS teams, and other statutory services across Cornwall. This is a varied and collaborative role that requires strong facilitation, communication, and organisational skills, alongside a good understanding of multi-agency working and project administration.

The role is focused on championing the voice of individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, ensuring their insights shape the design, commissioning, and delivery of health and social care services in Cornwall. A key aim is to embed co-production at the heart of service development, making sure services reflect the real needs and experiences of those who use them.

This position will contribute to building strong connections with communities, particularly those who are seldom heard or marginalised, enabling their perspectives to be included in decision-making processes. The postholder will provide feedback on health and social care proposals informed by lived experience, working collaboratively across systems and organisations to drive meaningful change.

A core aspect of the role involves developing and supporting the Cornwall Mind Lived Experience Network. This includes recruiting, training, and inducting Experts by Experience, and coordinating their involvement in mental health transformation work. The role is part of a multidisciplinary team, working creatively to identify opportunities for improvement and ensuring lived experience remains central to the transformation of mental health services across Cornwall.

Administrative Duties:

? Support the day-to day running of the project, responding to email enquiries, organising venues and times for internal meetings, and keeping EBEs updated with the progress of the projects they are involved in.

? Finance and expenses: Collaborate with the finance team to ensure expenses and payments to the EBEs are accurate and timely. Keeping an up-to-date record of hours and payment.

? Organising Workshops: Using briefs from organisations to create opportunity adverts and send out to EBES. Confirm EBE selection for workshops and action any accessibility needs to enable them to attend workshops.

? Feedback and Follow up: Monitoring the progress of assigned projects, and seeking feedback on the EBEs role and future workshop opportunities.

Communication:

? Minutes and Reports: Recording minutes during meetings, steering groups and workshops and where necessary summarising these into reports and circulating them to stakeholders.

? Newsletters and Bulletins: Create clear and engaging summaries of the activity of the network which can be circulated within internal and external stakeholder.

? Raising Awareness: Occasionally produce flyers or social media posts with information or calls to action regarding assigned projects, to be sent to our internal publicity officer.

? Education: In meetings and through community events participate in inter-organisation communication and collaboration. Be able to communicate the aims, purpose and why behind the project to a varied audience.

Facilitation:

? Monthly meetings: Facilitate the monthly meeting of EBEs, supporting them to explore area of the network that could be developed and improved, and working with the Project Co-ordinator to action suggestions.

? External Workshops: Attend workshops alongside EBE providing support and advocating for breaks and adjustments to the meeting where necessary. Provide a space for the EBEs to De-brief following a workshop and record and feedback to organisers the EBE experience.

? Outreach and Awareness: Communicate the aims, purpose and why behind the project to a varied audience. .

Contract length: 12 months

Application deadline: 1st August 2025

Expected start date: TBC

Job Type: Part-time - job share

Salary: 26,028 pro rata (13.35 per hour)

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 13.35 per hour

Expected hours: 20 per week

Benefits:

Additional leave Company pension Sick pay
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bodmin

Application deadline: 01/08/2025