We are looking for people with lived experience of caring for people who have or are accessing Helix - specialist perinatal mental health inpatient services across Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales.

We want partners, carers, friends and families to share their experiences, views and recommendations of the specialist perinatal mental health inpatient services we commission. Your voice will help us to make positive service changes and influence decision making.

For more info visit the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust volunteer page or contact our Carers Ambassador: cwp.helix.carers@nhs.net.

  • To bring your own, unique lived experience as a partner, carer, friend or family volunteer to support the Helix Lead Provider Collaborative. As an equal partner you will ensure the voices of patients, carers & families are heard
  • Collaborate with the LPC Communications Manager and forum volunteers to create content for the LPC Helix website
  • Support the LPC Commissioning Team at local and national events e.g. delivery of joint presentations ensuring the voices of partners, carers, friends and family are heard
  • Attend community events to raise the profile of local and national mental health awareness events
  • Attend Clinical Delivery Group and Partnership Boards as a Helix Carers and Families forum representative.
  • Ensure communication is open and honest
  • Challenge assertively and respectfully where appropriate, being mindful and considerate of other people’s feelings.

  • Experience as a partner, carer, friend or family member who has or is caring for a person who has accessed or is accessing a Helix specialist perinatal mental health inpatient service.
  • A desire to effect positive change within inpatient services
  • A willingness to provide feedback and insights and share lived experience

  • An exciting opportunity to affect positive changes in specialist perinatal mental health inpatient services across Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales
  • Meeting other Helix lived experience forum volunteers
  • Training delivered by the Lead Provider Collaborative (LPC) on becoming a Lived Experience Volunteer
  • Monthly Forum meetings & ongoing support
  • Opportunities for training and development
  • Community engagement events