CAMHS PPI Lead — Elevate Young Voices

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS Patient and Public Involvement Lead to embed young people and carers’ voices across the CAMHS directorate. The role spans four boroughs and involves collaboration with PPI leads to ensure involvement informs service development and patient experience.

The post requires compassionate leadership, flexibility for evening/weekend events, and a commitment to making service user voices central to the trust’s decisions and improvements.

Responsibilities

• To implement the Trust PPI strategy, develop a local Involvement and Engagement strategy for the Directorate and oversee its implementation.
• To develop systems whereby service users and carers can be involved in the ongoing development of the Directorate.
• To develop systems and approaches to proactively and continuously identify and recruit service users and carers, and maintain appropriate records, to support their participation in involvement and engagement opportunities.
• To develop a variety of modes of involvement suitable for a range of service users and carers, and develop, coordinate and deliver training to service users and carers and staff as required.
• To work closely with local PPI Leads within the Directorate to develop links with service user and carer groups within inpatient and community settings, and work with teams to develop local engagement and involvement structures.
• To evaluate levels of engagement on an ongoing basis to ensure the optimal impact on service quality, safety and experience.
• To work closely with other Directorates and with relevant corporate departments including the trust wide Involvement and Engagement Team to ensure efficiency and consistency of approach.
• To develop an effective service user and carer advisory group for the Directorate to ensure the views and experiences of people who use local services are at the heart of the development of the Directorate and its services. This will involve working with the Directorates’ Senior Management teams.

Job description

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS Patient and Public Involvement Lead to embed young people and carers’ voices across the CAMHS directorate. The role spans four boroughs and involves collaboration with PPI leads to ensure involvement informs service development and patient experience.

The post requires compassionate leadership, flexibility for evening/weekend events, and a commitment to making service user voices central to the trust’s decisions and improvements.