What’s the project?
The Looking Forward Project is a research study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. In this project, the Looking Forward project team are testing a new way to help young women who are not in education, employment, or training called HOPEFUL. The Looking Forward Project is happening in Sussex, Kent, and Norfolk, UK.
This project is a trial to test whether a new intervention helps young women who are NEET (not in education, employment or training) aged 16 to 25 years. The new intervention HOPEFUL involves working through a package of materials that help to teach the skills needed to improve hope, with the support of a mentor. This project will first involve one year to see whether the team can make this trial intervention work in practice. If this phase goes well, the team will carry on to complete a large trial to test whether HOPEFUL works and offers value for money.
Find out more
The Looking Forward Project team are looking for up to about 8 young women aged 16 to 25 years. The PIP will meet about 9 times over the whole project. The PIP’s role is to provide guidance, from a lived experience perspective, about running the project. You should have recent experience of being NEET. You could live in Sussex, Kent, or Norfolk.
The role of the PIP is to use lived experience to help us run the study in a better way. This means trying to make everything we do accessible and sensitive to the needs and preferences of young women who are NEET (not in education, employment, or training) .
- You must be a young woman. By “young woman” we mean anyone who identifies as a young woman.
- You must live in Sussex Kent or Norfolk.
- You must be aged 16-27
You will receive payment of £25 an hour.
A PIP coordinator would give you an induction, meet with you as a group and be available for a debrief after the session.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please email [email protected] with brief answers to the following questions:
- What is your name?
- What is your date of birth?
- Why are you interested in this specific opportunity?
- Please give details of any relevant experience
- Sometimes after talking about topics like mental health, people feel they need a little extra support or someone to chat to. What support do you currently have in place (e.g. supportive friends, family, health professionals or mental health charities)? Is there anything that [insert name of organisation here] could do to support you or make your involvement experience better?
- Please confirm which county you live in?
You are welcome to send your responses in audio or video format if preferred! If you need any help completing your expression of interest, you can get in touch with [email protected]
There is no deadline, but we are planning to organise a PIP meeting soon, so please contact us if you are interested.
Please note that the McPin Foundation regularly promotes opportunities on behalf of other institutions; we are not responsible for the continuation or contents of further correspondence with any project partners where we are not listed as the project main point of contact.
