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Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living. The Engagement and Participation Lead provides leadership and operational oversight to embed lived experience across adult mental health services. The role ensures that people with lived experience, including peer workers, residents, and families can meaningfully shape service design, delivery, and improvement through co production and collaborative practice. Feedback and learning from people with lived experience is embedded across services.
Job Responsibility:
Develop, deliver, and evaluate the Adult Services lived experience strategy
Provide expert advice on co production, recovery approaches, and trauma informed practice
Attend key partnership meetings and represent Response (e.g., Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership Involvement Group)
Develop strong partnerships with external organisations to improve meaningful activity and self-worth for residents
Ensure lived experience perspectives influence improvement across Response and partner organisations
Gather client views, collate feedback, implement changes, and embed “you said, we did” mechanisms
Develop opportunities for people with lived experience to participate, volunteer, or work within Response (e.g., projects, interview panels, peer support roles)
Develop strategy and approaches that build positive, trusting relationships with families and carers
Recruit, supervise, coach, and support the Lived Experience Support Worker
Provide reflective practice, skills development, and wellbeing support for lived experience staff
Build strong relationships with community partners and lived experience networks to increase meaningful engagement
Support services in developing and delivering client and family/friend engagement
Monitor and evaluate the impact of lived experience involvement and report findings to management
Collect & analyse data that demonstrates our impact across the services
Support communications for engagement and participation, including newsletters and client stories
provide content for social media and organisational engagement
Build strong working relationships with managers across adult services to ensure standards are met
Comply and remain up to date with all safeguarding policies and procedures for both Adults and Children and Young People
Requirements:
Educated to A Level or equivalent
Knowledge of national requirements and drivers for client, carer, family experience and involvement
Strong understanding of co production, recovery principles, and trauma informed practice Mechanisms for gathering feedback
Detailed understanding of mental health and wellbeing challenges
Knowledge of Safeguarding procedures
Engaging with clients, their family and friends individually and in groups
Able to run focus groups, engagement and larger events confidently and effectively
Ability to understand and analyse data and utilise this to inform onward actions or decision making
Strong relationship building and coaching skills including relations with individuals using services, staff, internal and external stakeholders
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail and ability to adapt this for the intended audience
Able to work across large geographical area and travel when desired to projects across different counties
A genuine interest in mental health and well-being with a commitment to delivering Response's mission
What we offer:
33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
Blue Light card and other discounted shopping
Employee Assistance Plan - with access to free counselling
Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation)
Enhanced family friendly leave
Flexible and agile working opportunities (role dependent)
Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave
£500 refer a friend bonus scheme
Optional health cash care plan with money off prescriptions and treatments
Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app – approved by NHS