Davis, F.

Green, D.

Jones, F.

MacInnes, D.

Stirrup, V.

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Co-producing Mental Health Peer Support in  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust  Victoria Stirrup1 Fergal Jones2 Douglas MacInnes2  Fabian Davis3 Debbie Green3   2. Key definitions:  Co-Production:  “shifts the bal-ance of power, responsibility and resources from professionals more to individuals, by involving people in the delivery of their own services.”  (Boyle and Harris,  2009 p.12)  Peer Support: “A model of provi-sion that champions the use of personal knowledge and experi-ence of a particular issue to help [and support] others who are ex-periencing the same is-sue.” (Bradstreet, 2006 p.34) Acknowledgements: Thank you to the community of Peers and Sponsors within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust for their contribution to the design and development of this model of co-production.  1 KTP Associate. Peer Support Project Development Officer Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University 2 Canterbury Christ Church University 3 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust  1. KTP Project Aim: To redesign employment processes to ensure the sustainable im-plementation of individuals with lived experience of mental health issues as Peer Support Workers (PSWs) to improve service delivery within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.  3. Method- Innovation through co-production:  KTP project stages were used to form Task Groups (4) mapped to the main areas of the project.    KTP mini project was used to identify existing current work with a strong peer support focus within the Trust; high-lighting a body of peer practice comprised of informal peer support and peer co-facilitation.    Service user peers and their Oxleas sponsors were invited to form the Peers and Sponsors Network (3) and share their practice with the Peer Support Steering Group (1).    Task groups were populated with representatives from the Peers and Sponsors Network and Corporate Services Staff (5) including Human Resources, Communications, and Equality and Human Rights staff.  6. Tangible benefits to Oxleas NHS:   KTP project formalises long tradition within Oxleas of co-developing provision with service users.   High quality service user engagement. The model of   co-production is underpinned by the belief that everyone  has something to contribute (Hunter and Richie, 2007).   Creation of a method for engaging service users in   internal governance and policy development with capacity  to retain this structure post KTP.   Greater potential for Peer Support to become embedded within Oxleas and support the sustainable implementa-tion of Peer Support Workers post KTP. 4 Model of co-production developed by the KTP project: References: Bradstreet, S. (2006) Harnessing the ‘Lived Experience’: Formalising Peer Support Approaches to Promote Recovery. Men-tal Health Review. 11(2):33-37 Harris, M., and Boyle, D. (2009) The Challenge of Co-production. London: NESTA and New Economics Foundation Hunter, S., and Richie, P. (2007) Co-Production and Personalisation in Social Care. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Needham, C., and Carr, S.(2009) Co-production: an emerging base for adult social care transformation. Research Brief-ing 31. London: Social Care Institute for Excellence.  7. Conclusions   Co-production in Oxleas has provided a mechanism to engage key stakeholder groups and promote collabo-rative working.   Positive feedback from service users and staff involved in co-production in Oxleas.   Provides an innovate approach to implementing and embedding Peer Support within an NHS Trust. 5. Features of co-production model: 1. A transformative way of conceptualising power, partnership and resources (Needham and Carr, 2009). 2. Responsibility for design and delivery of services shared between service user and provider (Boyle and  Harris, 2009). Image 1: Peer co-lead of the Bromley Hearing Voices Net-work and non-peer staff co-lead sharing experiences of co-production at the Oxleas NHS Peer Support ‘Conversation’ (5th February 2014) organised as part of the KTP. 2 1 3 4 5 Davis, F. (2013) 

Co-producing mental health peer support in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Co-producing mental health peer support in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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