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Lived Experience Coordinator - Scottish Trans

  • Full time or Part time
  • £28,429
  • Our office is at 30 Bernard St, Edinburgh, EH6 6PR. However, most staff are currently working from home, and we would welcome applications from people living anywhere in Scotland.
  • Closing 5th September 2022


  • Advertised from 15th August 2022
  • 35 hours per week, flexible hours

Role

We are looking to recruit a Lived Experience Coordinator to engage and consult with diverse trans communities and people all over Scotland in ongoing work to improve NHS gender identity healthcare services.

The Lived Experience Coordinator will become a member of the Scottish Government’s Gender Identity Healthcare Reference Group (“the Group”), which is overseeing delivery of the “NHS gender identity services: strategic action framework 2022-2024

Although the Lived Experience Coordinator will be hosted in the Scottish Trans team within the Equality Network, they will be an independent voice representing the views, experiences and needs of trans and non-binary people in the ongoing work to improve gender identity healthcare services, via membership of the Group.

They will be expected to represent and champion the needs of people waiting to use, using, or who have used gender identity healthcare services, to the Group, to ensure that improvements to these services are understood and shaped by the people who need them.

Applicants should have lived experience of using or waiting to use gender identity healthcare services.

The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 5th September. Interviews will take place via Zoom in the week starting 12th September

We are an equality organisation and we welcome applications from all communities. In particular, we welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people, who are currently under-represented in our staff team. Disabled people who meet the essential requirements of the person specification will be guaranteed an interview.

We welcome applications from people who want to do the job on a part time, job share basis.

Application notes

Download the application pack from:

scottishtrans.org/our-work/vacancies or email Claudia Russo, claudia@equality-network.org for an application pack or further information.