Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services - Perinatal Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0499-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poppy House, Maidstone
- Town
- Aylesford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Expert by Experience Perinatal Provider Collaborative Lead
Band 7
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
The Expert by Experience Perinatal Provider Collaborative Lead post is crucial in embedding and creating new ways of involving our service users and carers across the South East Region Perinatal Provider Collaborative.
The Provider Collaborative aims to ensure that women requiring an inpatient stay for their acute perinatal mental health issues will receive specialist care, as close to home as appropriately possible, which is connected with local teams and support networks.
This post focuses on the need to bring strong leadership around the participation of people who use Perinatal services and their carers/family. This includes all aspects of planning and delivery of perinatal mental health services within the directorate to promote improved service user and carer experiences through new insights and perspectives.
You will work strategically across the South East Region PC in order to develop and implement a strategy that supports the broad participation agenda. You will project manage a variety of work streams that underpin the collaborative participation agenda, ensuring that practice is coordinated and supports and responds to the Trust’s corporate social inclusion strategies.
You will work alongside partner organisations such as ICBs, local authorities, and voluntary and community partners to look towards the innovation of health care along with the NHS Long-Term Plan.
You will work with the Management Team to ensure a consistent approach across the collaborative.
Main duties of the job
- Hold the SE Region PC to account for activity related to the participation of service users and carers in their work.
- Lead on a variety of work streams that underpin the participation agenda, ensuring that practice is coordinated.
- Support/upskill/train/encourage service users and carers to participate across a range of participation activities.
- Develop a pool of service users/carers across the SE Region – working in partnership with others - to enable effective involvement within the statutory sector in meetings, interviews, and other required activities.
- Produce regular reports on specific issues and/or progress against the agreed annual plan
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Benefits
- Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank holidays
- Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
- Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Offer support and advice to multidisciplinary teams to encourage partnership working with service users and their carers.
- Work with service users, carers, and staff to ensure a high-quality, consistent service is offered across services.
- Offer training to frontline staff in best practices
- Challenge poor practices and offer viable innovative alternatives.
- Promote membership opportunities to service users and carers and support their involvement in membership activity.
- Provide expert advice to relevant Trust Panels and Committees.
- Present at a variety of public forums such as national and local webinars, Trust and ICB board meetings, service user engagement events, etc
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Further education/training in the areas of user and/or carer involvement.
- Educated to degree or equivalent level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Lived experience of admission to Mother and Baby Unit, Acute Mental health ward for perinatal mental illness or secondary care perinatal mental health community service
- A good working knowledge of current user and carer related legislation and codes of practice.
- Experience/understanding of advocacy.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of partnership working with third sector agencies or organisations and communities.
- Involvement in service redesign and development.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to devise and undertake audits, surveys and consultations.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines, under pressure and to prioritise own work streams.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with a wide range of people.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rose Waters
- Job title
- Deputy Service Director- Specialist Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919 045 300
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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