Jess Worner

Jess Worner is the Lived Experience Network Manager for the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA). She has personal lived experience of suicidality, self-harm, and of using mental health services. Jess works closely with people with lived and living experience to influence change and helps organisations think about meaningful ways of working collaboratively with people who have lived experience.

She is particularly interested in leaning into nuance and plurality of perspectives, taking a social justice approach to suicide prevention, and ensuring the least heard voices are amplified.

Before joining the NSPA, Jess has long a background in leading lived experience involvement, co-production and peer support programmes, including within mental charity Together for Wellbeing. She has also worked and volunteered for several homelessness charities, is involved in community-led LGBTQ groups in her local area of Weymouth, and enjoys cold-water swimming and weight lifting.