Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 173-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Counties Covered – Please list the counties or geographical areas your Trust provides services to.
Our response:
Gloucestershire.
You asked:
2. Senior Lived Experience Leadership Roles – Please list any senior roles within your Trust that have overall responsibility for lived experience functions.
This may include leadership of:
• Peer Support services
• Co production / Involvement
• Recovery College
• Lived Experience workforce or Expert by Experience programmes
For each role, please provide:
• Job title
• Agenda for Change band (or equivalent)
• Directorate or service area
Our response:
Lived Experience Professional
- Job title: Peer Support/Lived Experience Workforce Lead
- Agenda for Change band (or equivalent): Band 7
- Directorate or service area: Psychology. Quality, Nursing and Therapies Directorate
Health and Wellbeing College
- Job title: Lead Peer Support Worker
- Agenda for Change band (or equivalent): Band 5
- Directorate or service area: Countywide Directorate & Long Term Conditions Services
Co-production/Inclusion/Involvement, community engagement, and Expert by Experience programme functions:
- Job title: Service Development Manager
- Agenda for Change band (or equivalent) 8a
- Directorate or service area: Improvement and Partnerships Directorate
You asked:
3. Specific Leadership Roles – For the following roles, please confirm whether they exist in your Trust. If they do, please provide the job title and AfC band:
• Manager for Co production
• Manager for Involvement
• Recovery College Manager
• Peer Support Manager
• Senior Lived Experience Lead / Expert by Experience Lead
If your Trust uses different job titles but the roles are equivalent, please list the closest match.
Our response:
Service Development Manager Band 8a – manager for functions that includes coproduction, involvement, engagement and inclusion events, community relationships, and Expert by Experience programmes.
Recovery College Manager Band 7
Peer Support/Lived Experience Workforce Lead Band 7
You asked:
4. Role Structure – If any of these functions are combined into a single role, please specify how they are structured.
Our response:
Functions are combined across a few roles.
As identified above, a Service Development Manager, as part of the work of the Partnerships Team, has responsibility for coordinating co-production and participation work. Therefore, relevant functions are combined and supported by a small team, this includes: our Expert by Experience programmes for adults and children and young people (Youth Voice), coordinating our involvement, inclusion, and coproduction functions as an organisation, i.e. events, engagement, support and groups that enable us as an organisation to involve people and communities in a range of Trust activities and decision making opportunities.
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.