Service User Network Manager and Facilitator for Eating Disorders
| Posting date: | 17 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2024 |
| Location: | Pitsea, SS13 3BB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9364-24-1545 |
Summary
Where the term service users is used, this includes individual service-users, people with lived experience, their family members and carers. The Service User Network Manager and Facilitator for Eating Disorders will provide positive role modelling and leadership for service user engagement and representation for people with an Eating Disorder in Essex. The post holder will 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 this population in Essex. The post holder will also work with relevant external agencies in Essex to develop and enhance services for people with an Eating Disorder across Essex including identification and/or provision of training programmes for people with an Eating Disorder as well as for partner providers. The post holder will facilitate the development of locality networks, through engagement with local social care and health commissioners, voluntary sector, and third sector providers. This will include volunteer service networks, service-user networks, and stakeholder engagement. The post holder will provide training in knowledge and skills framework-informed an 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. The post holder will utilise any current expertise in patient support, psychoeducation, counselling and intervention direct with service users with an Eating Disorder in Essex, holding a caseload. If these skills are not current, the post holder will undergo further training to develop such expertise and skills, as appropriate.