Roles for service users and carers
We are committed to working and engaging with service users, patients, family, friends, carers and communities in a wide range of ways.
Ensuring that all people’s views are heard at all levels and across all parts of the Trust is essential for creating and delivering improved access, experience and health outcomes for patients.
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, working group or event.
- By expressing your interest in one of our Lived Experience Partner roles e.g.
- Training Lived Experience Partner
- Recruitment & Selection Lived Experience Partner
- PLACE Inspection (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment) Lived Experience Partner
- Contributing to the development of our strategies and plans.
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 56p per mile).
When a vacancy is advertised, we are looking for people with lived experience of mental health to express their interest.
Current opportunities are listed on this page, below, and/or advertised by flyers and on noticeboards in the services where roles are available.
PLACE Partner
PLACE (Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment) Partner
We are always looking for individuals to help us as part of our 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 NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) 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 and 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 partner inspection training prior to you starting and ongoing 1:1 support.
Our PLACE Partners 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
Phone: 0161 938 4482
Alternatively, email: ruth.lyons@gmmh.nhs.uk
We look forward to hearing from you!
Poster: PLACE Assessor Poster 2026.pdf
Clinical Standards and Effectiveness Group
An opportunity to support the Trust's Clinical Standards and Effectiveness Group as a Lived Experience Partner.
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 this group supported by our Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Abhishek Goli.
The Trust Clinical Standards and Effectiveness Group is part of the Trust’s governance structure. Its role is to make sure those individuals who access support receive high‑quality clinical care across all services. The Group checks that care is safe and effective, reviews clinical practice and outcomes, and supports ongoing improvement by using evidence, new ideas, and working together across teams.
Take the time to fully review the advert before submitting an expression of interest statement, to demonstrate that you can fulfil the requirements of this role which involves a lot of reading, capacity to attend meetings and understanding of NHS governance processes.
Clinical Standards & Effectiveness Group LE Partner Advert.pdf [pdf] 416KB
Submit your expressions of interest to this inbox:
ServiceUsersandCarers@gmmh.nhs.uk
The closing date for submission is Tuesday 26 May.
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