Community Partnerships Officer

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a candidate to coordinate and drive community partnership projects within Croydon. The role involves building relationships with community organizations, service users, and healthcare providers to enhance mental health service delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills and experience in engaging with diverse communities.

Qualifications

• Experience in community engagement projects.
• Ability to multi-task and produce robust project documentation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and drive community partnership projects.
• Develop and maintain relationships with healthcare organizations.
• Manage partnerships to enhance service delivery.

Skills

Project management

Relationship building

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Job overview

This role will be based across Croydon sites, supporting the Care Transformation Programme which covers both community, and acute and urgent care.

The Community Care Development Programme supports SLaM’s ambitious journey to ensure its services deliver outstanding mental health care, responding to the needs of the communities it serves – across all settings.

As part of the Croydon Directorate, the postholder will support and help deliver a range of projects and programmes. This means being able to multi-task, produce and maintain robust project documentation, drive delivery and work across clinical and service teams to enable successful change management.

The postholder will support the development of community partnership and community connection projects and communications across the Trust. This will involve the post holder developing an excellent understanding of the needs of the specific populations in the boroughs.

The postholder will create and maintain connections to community groups and organisations across South London to build strong working relationships with other healthcare providers, voluntary and community groups, small businesses and community pillars.

They will seek opportunities to participate in stakeholder forums, support in various workstreams, encouraging and supporting a partnership approach.

Main duties of the job

• To coordinate and drive delivery of community partnership projects within a defined portfolio.
• To support in liaising, developing and maintaining strong relationships with both healthcare and non-healthcare organisations including third sector voluntary and community organisations, faith groups, social care, housing, education and community leaders across the boroughs with a view of enhancing service delivery through partnership working.
• To support in reaching, developing and managing partnerships from all sectors of the community.
• To work with service users, carers, staff and community members, coordinating projects and promoting co-production service improvements and developments.
• To support with mapping out community assets, working with the Trust, local authorities, and third sector umbrella organisations to scope the existing community assets in the local landscape; creating a Community Asset Database.
• To research and identify groups, organisations and populations within the local community with whom the division should develop relationships.
• To help realise identified community partnerships opportunities with a clear focus on delivery of Long Term Plan commitments for mental health.
• To utilise project management principles, supporting the Delivery Manager and other project leads including wider clinical/operational staff, and partners including local authorities, service users and carers, and third sector organisations.