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West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
Job overview
This is an exciting, new role with responsibility for leading the operational, day to day delivery of the Trust's co-production and partnership strategy. Working closely with the Head of Co-production, Involvement and Partnerships, the Co-production and Partnerships Development Manager will lead the continued development of an organisation-wide approach to ensuring robust and meaningful involvement of service users, patients and carers in all of the Trust's work.
The successful candidate will be passionate about working with patients, carers and the diverse West London Communities that the Trust serves to ensure equitable, compassionate care for all. They will champion the value and importance of co-production and patient and carer involvement, ensuring that patient and carer voice is heard and amplified at every level of the organisation. This is a wide-ranging role, further developing the Trust's partnership work with patients and carers, building capacity around co-production through training, advice, support, and learning, and developing the way we work with partners across the North West London Integrated Care System.
Main duties of the job
1. Work with people with lived experience of using mental and physical health services.
2. Lead co-production, involvement and engagement initiatives, Trust-wide.
3. Lead and facilitate patient, service-user, carer and community listening spaces and develop the range of opportunities for patients, services users and carers to get involved in the Trust's work.
4. Build co-production and involvement capacity of the organisation through development of training, advice and support, and learning.
5. Deep commitment to reducing health inequalities and ensuring those who face barriers to accessing services and support are able to have their voices heard.
6. Excellent partnership working skills and experience at leading the development and delivery of strategies that support systematic ways of working well with patients, carers, community and other partners.
7. Develop and lead the Trust's work with carers, ensuring the Trust is implementing the Triangle of Care, working with carers and staff Trust-wide.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level
* Master's degree or equivalent experience
Experience
* Leading community engagement/consultation initiatives and dealing appropriately with sensitive feedback.
* Leading patient and resident co-production and involvement work.
* Working at senior level with Boards and senior staff.
* Working with a wide range of public stakeholders, including groups whose interests are protected under the Equality Act.
* A track record of creating success through working in partnerships with multiple stakeholders to improve patient/carer experience and outcomes.
* Contributing to plans to tackle equality and health inequality challenges.
Knowledge
* Good knowledge of the requirements set out in the NHS Constitution and the Health and Social Care Act regarding public involvement in the NHS.
* Understanding of equality (and the Equality Act 2010) and diversity.
* Understanding of the challenge of health inequalities.
* Good knowledge and understanding of engagement, involvement, and co-production approaches and methodologies (including Quality Improvement).
Desirable criteria
* Good knowledge of the NHS Long Term Plan and a good understanding of personalised care.
As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.
West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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