Lived Experience and Co-production Lead

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; West Carr; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a full-time Lived Experience and Co-production Lead to strengthen patient and carer involvement across the Mental Health Division. The role focuses on embedding lived experience in planning, service development and co-production meetings with senior leadership.

The post requires engaging with adults, carers and staff across inpatient and community services, promoting innovative ways to capture experience-based evidence and feedback to improve care.

Responsibilities

• Establish lived experience partnerships across the Mental Health Division.
• Lead on implementing the Adult Mental Health Co-production Group across the Hull and East Riding area.
• Engage with service users, carers and staff to capture feedback and outcome data.
• Promote inclusive practice and involvement in service planning and decision making.

Job description

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

We are looking for a full time Lived Experience and Co-production Lead to join our team.

Establishing and building effective relationships with adults and older people accessing mental health services, service and system colleagues, and the wider community to improve mental health services through incorporating lived experience in our working practice to enable effective co-production and to oversee the operational management of peer support.

The post holder will draw on their own experience of using services to engage with adults and carers across the Mental Health Division in order to gain an understanding of their experiences, preferences and aspirations. This will enable them to represent a lived experience perspective in planning, management and co-production meetings as well as identifying individuals and approaches to facilitate the broader lived experience voice in all aspects of the Mental Health Division as agreed with the Senior Leadership Team.

The post holder will work across all areas of the Mental Health Division including Inpatient and Community Services engaging with staff, service users and carers and family members. The main hours of working will be flexible between 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday

Main duties of the job

A key principle of the Mental Health Division is that our service users, their families and carers are at the heart of and have a voice in the decisions that are made about their care, pathways and the future development of our services.

As such, this post will support the delivery of co-production and involvement approach to effectively engaging with service users, staff and wider communities.

The post will involve working with people who use services, carers and staff to promote innovative and creative ways of working to improve the experience of those who use our services and their carers and family members.

The post holder will support the engagement service users and family members in the generation of relevant feedback and outcome date capturing experience-based evidence to evaluate and further develop services.

The role will lead on the implementation of the Adult Mental Health Co-production Group across the Hull and East Riding geographical area. Leading on the integration and participation of adults and older people that have lived experience to shape and influence care across mental health services and with senior management.

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.