Developing Expertise in Peer Working (Accredited)

This 6 session training is for people new to peer and lived experience working who are looking to develop new skills and knowledge to apply to their work, as well as those who may not yet be in a peer and lived experience role but are interested in learning practical skills in how to effectively use their lived experience(s) of health challenges to support others on their recovery journeys.

Falls are one of the most common- and most preventable risks faced by people with mobility or health challenges.

This Falls Prevention and Management Workshop is designed to support you in keeping your staff and residents safe, confident, and independent. 

This half-day, face-to-face theory and practical workshop equips participants with up-to-date knowledge, hands-on strategies, and practical resources to reduce fall risks and respond effectively if a fall occurs.

Calling Senior Peer Support Workers and Peer Leads!

Do you provide individual or group supervision to peer workers as part of your role?

Would you like to build, enhance or tailor your approach to being a professional peer supervisor as part of your career development?

CNWL’s Peer & Lived Experience Workforce has an embedded and robust structure of professional supervision, spanning a professional group of over 100 staff at a range of levels of experience and across a wide variety of health services.

Our supervisor training offers an opportunity to learn with an employer of choice for lived experience working, so you can effectively and safely adapt your established experience and approach as a peer or lived experience worker to the benefit of others earlier in their professional journey.

Falls are one of the most common- and most preventable risks faced by people with mobility or health challenges.

This Falls Prevention and Management Workshop is designed to support you in keeping your staff and residents safe, confident, and independent. 

This half-day, face-to-face theory and practical workshop equips participants with up-to-date knowledge, hands-on strategies, and practical resources to reduce fall risks and respond effectively if a fall occurs.

Approved Clinicians (ACs) are mental health professionals who have the appropriate approvals in place to enable them to make some decisions under the Mental Health Act 1983. A Responsible Clinician (RC), who has overall responsibility for a person’s care and treatment under the Mental Health Act, must be an AC for example. ACs are approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, or persons or bodies exercising the approval function on behalf of the Secretary of State. This approval function is currently discharged by four regional approval panels across England, under authority delegated by the Secretary of State for Health.  

Historically, the AC role has primarily been taken up by doctors on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register for Psychiatry. In recent years however, and particularly following the National Institute for Mental Health in England’s New Roles publication in 2008 and subsequent Statutory Instructions from the Secretary of State, there has been increase in the number of ACs from other eligible professional groups. 

This accredited training is for peer and lived experience workers working in healthcare who are looking to build on their existing experience, develop their theoretical understanding of the role of a peer worker (both in and outside the NHS) and advance or refresh their therapeutic skills.

The course is accessible for people new to academia as well as those new to peer working - – if you are in a role where you draw on your lived experience of health challenges to support others, this is a course that can support you to boost your knowledge.

Developing Expertise in Peer Working provides a rare opportunity to gain a Level 4 qualification to emphasise the skilled contributions peer and lived experience workers bring to their teams and services.