Lived Experience Advisor

Neurodiverse Connection are recruiting three Neurodivergent Lived Experience advisors to work on the Culture of Care programme across England.

The Culture of Care Programme is part of NHS England's Quality Transformation Programme and launched in January 2024, with the scope of:

• Coaching 200 inpatient wards and around 60 corporate teams across England to improve the culture of the care that they provide, in both NHS and private settings, supporting them to work to the forthcoming NHS England Culture of Care standards.
• Providing executive coaching and reverse mentoring to Boards in all of those organisations.
• Supporting them to move away from risk-assessment tools to a holistic approach to safety on wards.
• Doing all of the above through a trauma-informed, autism-informed and racial equity perspective.

Within this role as a Lived Experience Advisor you will:

• Work with mental healthcare providers so that they can reflect on their current practices to create positive change through coaching and reverse mentoring (training will be available).
• Ensure that all of the work is rooted in the Lived Experience of patients and carers.
• Share learning gained through working with the NHS sites throughout the programme and support further development and innovation to the Culture of Care Model.
• Help wards understand the principles, potential and benefits of co-production.
• Provide practical support and advice to wards/organisations enabling them to support, meaningfully include people with Lived Experience bring personal and professional experience of working with people whose ‘voice’ is often unheard, and those with poorer experience and outcomes from inpatient services.

About us

Neurodiverse Connection is a neurodivergent-affirming and supportive Community Interest Company. 

We want to support you as an important team member to work on projects that you love, that meet your interests and skills, and enable you to have a balanced and rewarding work and personal life. We welcome you working with us and providing gentle challenge if we don’t get this right, so we can learn together. We want to see neurodivergent people treated better, and that starts with us. We hope you’ll work with us to champion this approach for other people, too.

Find out more about us at www.ndconnection.co.uk

Our commitment to you

It’s part of our mission to be a great place to work and to demonstrate how to work in neurodivergent affirming ways. We believe this is beneficial to everyone, regardless of neurology.

We commit to:

• Enable you to shape your role to your strengths and interests.
• Offer flexibility in delivery hours, within agreed parameters.
• Work to make Neurodiverse Connection an organisation that you enjoy being part of, that supports you in your role, that recognises your contribution and that delivers great outcomes for the neurodivergent people we work to support.
• Involve you in shaping and directing the organisation.
• Listen when we don’t get it right, and welcome constructive feedback.
• Involve team members in development opportunities and spending the social value we’ve accumulated together.
• 35 hour working week.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata.
• Access to a wellbeing fund.

Please note, we do not accept CV's.

Please email any questions and the completed application form to recruitment@ndconnection.co.uk

Closing date: Monday 11th March 12pm

Virtual interview dates: Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th March