Lived Consultant

Lived Experience Consultant

Closing date: 15 March 2026

Supporting children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Lived Experience Consultant to join the Lighthouse, a highly specialist service for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse. We are seeking a practitioner with lived experience and a strong background in psychological or therapeutic services, who can meaningfully contribute to our multidisciplinary team.

• Direct experience of supporting children and families affected by child sexual abuse (CSA)
• A proven track record of co‑delivering interventions
• The confidence to use their lived experience to shape and enhance trauma‑informed care

In this role, you will bring unique insight into the needs of children, young people and parents, working alongside clinicians to ensure our service remains responsive, compassionate and expert‑led.

Working from a basis of personal lived experience, the post holder will contribute to community‑based and trauma‑informed care for children and adolescents through their contributions to multi‑disciplinary assessments of need, supporting engagement and interventions including group‑based interventions, as well as consultation and support to young people’s caring networks.

In addition to supporting direct work, which may include joint individual, small group and parent work, the post holder will be available to consult to wider professional networks about children and young people and be available to staff for consultation. This post will also contribute to the wider service with co‑production and service user participation projects, including parent and young people’s forums, and serve an advisory function to the Lighthouse to support the development of pathways that are child‑centred and informed by lived experience.

The post holder will also participate in audit and contribute to policy and service development and research within the area served by Lighthouse and related services, nationally and internationally. They will be responsible for joint working, group working and supporting casework via contributing a lived experience perspective to engagement and interventions. The post holder will ensure that the Lighthouse assessment and intervention pathways and user engagement are informed by lived experience perspectives;

embed service user participation initiatives; continue to offer and develop the parent course programme; increase reach and impact of the service through awareness and capacity building with wider professionals locally and internationally e.g. through key contributions to visits, conferences and trainings.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net‑zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job…