The Role -

As a key member of the Gambling Service team, the Lived Experience facilitator will play an instrumental role in promoting understanding, reducing stigma, and fostering a sense of empowerment for those affected by gambling harms either as a gambler or as an affected other.

Main responsibilities / duties -

• Engage with individuals accessing gambling support, providing empathy and understanding based on your own lived experiences and mentoring those seeking guidance and inspiration in their own recovery journey.


• Facilitate recovery groups, workshops, and educational sessions to share knowledge and strategies for making and maintaining positive changes.


• Collaborate with staff within the Gambling service to enhance understanding of the lived experience perspective and contribute to service development plans and strategies.


• Take the lead in the development and delivery of a gambling harms peer support programme.


• Facilitate opportunities to gather service user feedback to evaluate the quality of the service.

The Perfect Candidate -

• Experienced harm from gambling either directly as a gambler or indirectly as an affected other (Have been in stable recovery for at least 12 months).

• Good knowledge and understanding of gambling harms and available support services / resources.

Essential Criteria -

• Good basic standard of education e.g.
  
  4-5 GCSE's or Level 2 NVQ.
  
  Commitment to work towards a level 3/4 qualification.