IPS – One LLEW Model of Practice

We know what people working in a LLEW Role don’t do. We don’t do the clinical stuff – assessments, encouraging ‘compliance’ with a particular treatment, we also don’t function as case aides, going shopping for consumers, or transporting consumers. So, what does LLEW do then? Consumer and Carer workers have…

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Explaining IPS to Clinicans

This is a piece I wrote after my IPS training. I’d talked to clinicial colleagues at my hospiital work and it had been noticed that the a number of the specific skills covered in IPS were the same as some of those covered in basic clinical training – body language,…

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Home – LLEW.Life

Leavings of a Life Lived in LLEW Welcome I have been hanging around the ‘Lived and Living Experience Workforce’ in Victoria, Australia for a while. I’ve worked in numerous health services for some decades and throiugh a bunch of name changes – Consumer Participation/Consumer Worker/Peer Worker/Lived Experience/Lived and Living Experience….

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