Lived Experience and Communities Panel; England

Esther works for the NHS as a Lived Experience Peer Support Worker in an Outpatients Eating Disorders service. She has been in this role since 2023 and was previously a patient under the same team from 2013-2014. She was the first Peer Support worker in the team, so has worked on defining the role and embedding it into the service. She now also offers support and guidance to new Peer Support Workers who are joining the team. She has been an advocate for utilising lived experience long before she became a Peer Support Worker. A lot of her work involves co-production between service users and clinicians and this is something she is very passionate about. She was a member of the Lived Experience and Communities panel for the forum in London in 2024, and will be joining for a second time in 2025 as part of the panel and the Change stream.