Roles for service users and carers
We are committed to working and engaging with service users, patients, family, friends, carers and the public in a wide range of ways.
Ensuring that people’s views are heard at all levels and across all parts of the Trust is essential for creating and delivering better health and care services.
Service users and people who look after someone can get involved in the following ways:
- Providing your views as a representative at a service improvement meeting or working group.
- Getting involved in the recruitment and selection process of staff.
- Helping inspect our buildings for the purposes of audit or PLACE Inspection (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment).
- Co-deliver our training (as part of the Trust induction or as a Course Tutor for our Recovery Academy)
- Speaking at an event
- Contributing to the development of policies or reviewing information
- And many more.
You will be paid for your time. The rate of pay is £15.00 per hour. Payment for mileage will be reimbursed at the same rate as our staff who use their own vehicle for business mileage (currently 59p per mile).
When a vacancy is advertised, we are looking for applications from lots of people who have used GMMH’s services, particularly in the last six months, as well as their carers and families.
There may also be occasions when someone with experience of our services over six months ago, either directly themselves, or indirectly as a family member/carer, can apply for a role.
Current opportunities are listed on this page, below, and/or advertised by flyers and on noticeboards in the services where roles are available.
Quality and Safety Committee Lived Experience Partner
The Trust Quality and Safety Committee (QSC) exists as part of the Trust governance structure to seek assurance, on behalf of the Board of Directors, that effective systems, processes and controls are in place to promote safety and excellence in care; enable the identification, prioritisation and management of risks arising from the delivery of care; ensure the efficient and effective use of resources, including through evidence-based clinical practice; and protect people’s health and safety.
In line with our commitments to improving service user and carer experience and engagement, we would like to recruit a Lived Experience Partner to be an active member of QSC supported by our Chief Nurse, Salli Midgley.
We are looking for expressions of interest from service users and carers who can:
- Attend 1 x 3-hour meeting on the 3rd Thursday morning of each month (9.30am to 12.30pm) in person at the Curve, Prestwich site (postcode: M25 3BL).
- Attend 1 x 1 hour prep meeting per month with the Chief Nurse to prepare for the meeting.
- Spend up to 3 hours per month reading the papers ahead of the pre-meet with the Chief Nurse and the meeting itself in order to prepare for the meeting and note things you wish to raise on behalf of service users and carers.
You must:
- Be a current or former mental health service user or carer.
- Have a broad understanding of, and interest in the quality, safety and service improvement agendas.
- Advocate for service user and carer perspectives and experience at a strategic level.
- Be able to communicate effectively at a committee level forum with senior leaders.
- Be able to review detailed reports and develop constructive feedback.
- Be constructively curious and solution focused with a passion for improving mental health services.
You will be paid for your time in line with the Trust policy which is £15 per hour from 1 January 2026.
To find out more and register your interest, please contact: serviceusersandcarers@gmmh.nhs.uk
The closing date for expressions of interest is Monday 23 February 2026.
Please take the time to fully review the criteria needed before submitting an expression of interest statement. The role will involve reading a lot of documents the capacity to attend the meetings and an understanding of NHS governance processes.
We look forward to hearing from you!
PLACE Inspector
PLACE (Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment) Inspector
We are looking for individuals to help us form a trust wide PLACE inspection team. Throughout the year the PLACE inspection team will visit all of our inpatient wards at Prestwich, Manchester, Bolton, Salford, Trafford, and Wigan, making sure that Greater Manchester Mental Health is providing the best environments for its service users. The team looks at a variety of standards such as: cleanliness, quality of the food, privacy and dignity, the buildings general condition and maintenance & how the environment supports the care of those with dementia.
We are looking for applications from service users and carers with recent experience of mental health wards.
We will be providing PLACE inspection training prior to you starting and ongoing 1:1 support.
Our Inspectors are paid for their time; the rate of pay is £15.00 per hour. We will reimburse all public travel expenses or mileage costs if using your own car.
For more information
Tel: 0161 938 4482
Alternatively, email: ruth.lyons@gmmh.nhs.uk
We look forward to hearing from you!
Poster: PLACE Assessor Poster 2026.pdf
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