Lived Experience Involvement and Engagement Worker

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom The BigLife Group Full time

**Lived Experience - Engagement and Involvement Worker. **Engaging with Black, Asian and racially marginalised communities about mental health.

**About us**:
Big Life is in the business of changing lives. We fight inequality by working with people and places to create opportunities and inspire change. Big Life group works to develop partnerships with communities, decision-makers, and services to widen opportunities, grow local assets and build resilience. Our services work with people on all areas of their life and help them with the things that matter most to them, working with them to remove all the obstacles to changing their life for the better. We help people see the skills and support they already have so they can build on it. This is known as working in the Big Life Way, for more information visit our website via the link Home - The Big Life group

We strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can all be ourselves and strongly encourage applicants from all parts of society. You can read on our careers site about the actions we are taking ourselves to fight inequality and inspire change.

We actively value the lived experiences and expertise of our staff, volunteers and the people who use our service and see the extra value that they bring to our organisation. 57% of Big Life staff have lived experience of mental health problems, addiction, or living with a disability or long-term condition.

**What you’ll be doing**:
As a Lived Experience - Engagement and Involvement Worker, you will be a champion for diversity, equity and inclusion of people with lived experience of accessing mental health services, particularly those from racially marginalised communities. You will ensure the voice of people with lived experience is captured into community services, while addressing barriers to engagement.

You will create safe and trusting environments so people feel empowered to build connections and relationships, and access the resources and strengths found in the range of communities with which they identify and belong.

Your work will support the Involvement Lead for Community Mental Health Transformation.

**What we need from you**:

- You know about coproduction and participatory activity
- You’re able to build strong relationships and influence change
- You have experience of planning, organising, coordination and facilitation of meetings and group activity
- You can build action plans based on data analysis
- You have strong written and spoken communication skills to people of all levels
- You are enthusiastic, confident and able to work flexibly and independently
- You have good time management and organisational skills relating to the overall number of client contacts offered and clinical sessions carried out each week
- You are interested in using clinical supervision positively and effectively
- To keep our colleagues and clients safe, we will be carrying out an enhanced level DBS check for this role. However, that doesn’t mean that all historic convictions will necessarily prevent you from working in this role.

**What we offer you in return**:

- A two years fixed term contract, with an annual salary of £26,845 (NJC salary point 17)
- 25 days holiday, and 30 once you've been here five years
- A relaxed culture where you are expected to plan your own day, take breaks when you need them and enjoy your work
- Ongoing personal and professional development through regular supervision
- A supportive, flexible approach to managing staff health and wellbeing, including a wide range of perks, schemes and support.

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