Advertised from 4 June 2025

Role

About the Lochaber Experience Matters Project

The Lochaber Experience Matters Project aims to engage and empower individuals in Lochaber with lived experiences of mental health challenges. By establishing an Experience Matters Advisory Panel (Ex-MAP), we seek to create a sustainable platform for these voices to influence and improve third-sector services.

The project's objectives are to:

• Community Collaboration: Foster opportunities for people with lived experience to come together and give voice to their support needs.
• Capacity Building: Enhance the ability and confidence of third-sector service providers to engage meaningfully with people with lived experience.
• Co-Design Advocacy: Promote active involvement in the co-design of 3rd sector services, ensuring that community voices shape their delivery and evaluation.

This new Lochaber Experience Matters Project is funded through the Scottish Government’s Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund and builds on the successful Caithness Experience Matters Advisory Panel approach.

Key role responsibilities:

• Project leadership, planning, and delivery
• Outreach and community engagement
• Reporting, relationship building, and collective advocacy

For an informal discussion about the role, contact John Beaton, Development Manager, at john@spiritadvocacy.org.uk or call 07553 206666.

Application notes

Application pack is available to download below.

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