About this role
Job summary
At Priory, we believe the voices and experiences of the people we support should be at the heart of everything we do, helping us shape and continuously improve care across our divisions, regions and our local services. As Lived Experience Partner Lead, youll help shape and deliver our Lived Experience Partnership strategy across Priory Healthcare, working with colleagues and senior leaders to ensure patient voice and coproduction meaningfully influence our services and the way we work.
Main duties of the job
Youll play a key role in shaping how lived experience influences our services, working collaboratively across Priory to turn insight into meaningful action.
Lead our Lived Experience approach, helping to develop and lead the Priory Healthcare strategy and framework and embedding lived experience across our services. Champion patient voice and a culture of coproduction, working with senior leaders, managers and teams to turn lived experience feedback into meaningful service improvements. Lead and support our team of Divisional Lived Experience Partners, from recruitment and coordination through supervision, development and training, ensuring they can make a meaningful contribution. Share insight and influence change, preparing reports, presentations and updates and representing Lived Experience Partnership work at divisional committees and forums. Shape the future of lived experience at Priory, supporting policy development and helping build a culture where lived experience is valued, celebrated and genuinely influences how we work.
About us
Priory is the UKs leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care. With 12,000 colleagues and a network of 270 services, we support over 24,000 people each year to live their lives as fully and independently as possible. We treat more than 70 conditions including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and childrens mental health and provide residential and supported living care for autistic adults, people with a learning disability, PraderWilli Syndrome, brain injuries and older people.
We are an equal opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process. Learn more about the accessibility support we offer here.
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All roles are subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.
Job description Job responsibilities
At Priory, we believe the voices and experiences of the people we support should be at the heart of everything we do, helping us shape and continuously improve care across our divisions, regions and our local services. As Lived Experience Partner Lead, youll help shape and deliver our Lived Experience Partnership strategy across Priory Healthcare, working with colleagues and senior leaders to ensure patient voice and coproduction meaningfully influence our services and the way we work.
This is an evolving senior role, offering the opportunity to shape the strategic vision for lived experience across Priory. Youll provide leadership, governance and strategic influence across a range of projects, workstreams and engagement activity, ensuring the voices and experiences of the people we support are meaningfully embedded in how we deliver and improve care.
The role is offered on a full-time remote basis, with occasional travel required.
Person Specification
You will demonstrate Essential
Personal lived experience of mental health services, alongside previous experience in a Lived Experience role at a senior regional or divisional level, with responsibility for multiple projects or workstreams. Strong knowledge of mental health services and the challenges facing the sector, with the ability to use lived experience, insight and information from different sources to develop a collective perspective. Confident and credible leadership skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with clinicians, senior colleagues, service users, carers, families and wider teams, influencing positive change and supporting strategic decision-making. Strong communication and presentation skills, including the confidence to co-deliver training, present to colleagues and clinicians, and chair or co-chair meetings and committees. Highly organised and self-motivated, with the ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, meet deadlines and maintain a high standard of work. A commitment to inclusive and culturally aware partnership working, with the confidence and ability to help embed lived experience meaningfully across Healthcare.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Priory Healthcare
Address 7th Floor
3 Shortlands
London
W6 8DA
United Kingdom
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