Service User Network Manager and Facilitator for Eating Disorders Specialist

14 hours ago


Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Job Title: Service User Network Manager and Facilitator for Eating Disorders

We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Service User Network Manager and Facilitator for Eating Disorders. This role will play a crucial part in shaping our services across Essex, working closely with service users to develop and maintain co-production in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services and policy for people with eating disorders.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide positive role modelling and leadership for service user engagement and representation for people with eating disorders in Essex.
  • Work with service users to support existing user-led groups and develop new peer support user-led groups to embed and maintain co-production in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services and policy for people with eating disorders in Essex.
  • Provide training in knowledge and skills framework-informed eating disorder education for Essex-wide stakeholders, represent service-users in the business of the specialist Community Adult Eating Disorder Service Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), advise the Eating Disorder Transformation Steering Group, and consult to stakeholders, commissioners, operational managers, and clinicians throughout Essex.
Requirements:
  • Master's degree or equivalent experience/qualification or significant formal training or research in a relevant field.
  • Personal lived experience of managing or living with an eating disorder.
  • Supervision or management experience and skills.
  • Skills and experience in project management, proposal development, and proven organisational skills.
Person Specification:
  • Master's degree or equivalent.
  • Proven knowledge of service evaluation to be able to measure current practices within a service, project, and be accountable for providing evidence for operational practice, including high-level reporting to commissioners and stakeholders to executive level.
  • Professional registration.
  • Research qualification or evidence of skills, including previous audit, research, or evaluation, preferable published.
  • Formal counselling or coaching qualification and registration.
Knowledge:
  • Knowledge of complex mental health conditions, and their challenges.
  • Knowledge of national and regional mental health policy, specifically relating to eating disorders.
  • Experience of dealing directly with mental health commissioners or commissioning.
Personal Qualities:
  • Ability to present a professional image and actively promote the service at all times to service users, other stakeholders, partnership organisations, and the general public.
  • Positive attitude to collaborative team work and ability to form good working relationships with others.
  • Accountable for own professional actions and ability to work autonomously, including planning and organising own workload.
  • Ability to maintain accurate case records and an awareness of the importance of confidentiality.
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
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.



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