Job summary
Employer heading
Participation Lead
NHS AfC: Band 6
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Kent and Sussex Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative.
The post holder will actively develop Mental Health user and carer involvement within the Adult eating Disorders Provider Collaborative in Kent and Sussex, ensuring that service user participation is an integrated aspect of all work and service development that the Provider Collaborative is involved in. The post holder will be responsible for managing and developing User Partnership Groups and will also support the Kent and Sussex Provider Collaborative in developing and promoting a partnership approach to working with services users and their families/ carers.
The post holder will establish positive relationships with existing participation organisations across the Kent and Sussex footprint and be expected to travel across the footprint.
Base is negotiable across the areas covered by the Kent and Sussex Collaborative.
Main duties of the job
To support the work of the Adult Eating Disorders Collaborative by:
- Undertaking engagement work with patients, carers and the public in the context of the strategic priorities of the team
- Undertaking work with operational colleagues at all levels in the organisation to promote the strategic priorities of the team and support frontline service improvement
- Undertaking work to gather feedback from patients, carers and the public
- Supporting and contributing to the strategic and policy development of the Provider Collaborative
- Supporting the teams work by undertaking key project tasks
- Developing opportunities for a closer links between Provider Collaborative and the Equality and Diversity and Carer functions of the functions of the organisation.
Working for our organisation
Provider Collaboratives are provider organisation partnerships operating in geographical footprints to improve care for adults with Eating Disorders. Provider Collaboratives hold specialised commissioning, contracting and quality assurance responsibilities for the Adult Eating Disorder caseload for Kent and Sussex. The lead provider is Sussex Partnership NHS FT. Our partners are North East London FT.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To undertake engagement work with patients, carers and the public in the context of the strategic priorities of the team
- To work closely with operational colleagues to realise the strategic priorities of the teams and promote frontline service improvement
- To work with external partners to deliver the strategic priorities of the team and to identify opportunities for future work to advance the same
- To advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations with the community across the Protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010
- To undertake work to gather feedback from patients, carers and the public
- To support and contribute to the strategic and policy development of the
- To support the team’s work by undertaking key project tasks
- To develop opportunities for a closer links between Adult Provider Collaborative and the Equality and Diversity and Carer functions of the organisation
- To take lead responsibility for the management and delivery of specific projects as agreed
To act as a public face of the Trust in relation to the work of the teams
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant degree or diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of relevant legislation as it relates to the patient and carer experience
- Working knowledge of Equality, Diversity and Human rights legislation and good practice
- Experience of successful project management in a complex organisation
- Experience of working with a diverse range of people in a dynamic environment
- Experience and evidence of analysing, interpreting and presenting information
- Experience of producing reports and contributing to funding applications
- Experience of supporting managers and clinical staff
- Experience of event management
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
- Nina Marshall
- Job title
- Programme Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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