Employer Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Distington House
Town Sheffield
Salary £14.93 per hour
Salary period Session by session
Closing 01/04/2025 23:59
Culture of care expert by experience bank role
NHS AfC: Band 4
About us
At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care, and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city.
We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.
Job overview
The Culture of Care is a national programme that aims to improve the experience of being on wards for everyone: staff, carers, and most importantly, our patients. The Culture of Care Programme is Co-Produced – this means that professionals at all levels have worked with people who use mental health services to create this programme.
The programme is built on four key areas to support our wards:
1. Safety: Making sure our wards are safe and supportive for everyone.
2. Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and addressing the impact of trauma.
3. Therapeutic Care: Providing care that meets the therapeutic needs of patients.
4. Equity-Focused Care: Ensuring fair and just care for all service users.
Main duties of the job
We’re looking for people to join us in this important work. Specifically, we need:
* People who have experience of being inpatients on a mental health ward.
* Carers who have experience supporting people who are or have been inpatients on a mental health ward.
* This experience should be either recent (i.e. within the last 5 years) or current (i.e. you are currently based on one of our wards).
We know that you might have complicated feelings about your time as an inpatient, and that not all experiences of mental health care are positive. It’s really important to us that we hear from voices that don’t often get heard, especially from people who might feel the most marginalised.
Working for our organisation
At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Providing insight and guidance to inform the priorities of this work.
* Help to embed co-production into the heart of this work.
* Helping us to translate our values and visions into actions and measurable change.
* Attending regular meetings with other experts by experience to discuss the quality improvement work on the wards. This can be face to face or via online video link.
* Reading documents relating to this work.
This programme is still new, so it is possible that there will be other tasks or ways to get involved – we will adopt a strengths-based approach to working with you, so if you have skills or interests in a particular area, we can discuss ways to bring those strengths to this work.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Understanding and insight into the experience of being on an inpatient ward.
* Ability to take part in meetings and work with others.
* Awareness and respect of differences between people.
* Ability to use emails and read documents.
* Willingness to work alongside staff members to improve our services.
Experience
* Experience of staying on inpatient wards. OR Experience of caring for someone who has had experience of staying on inpatient wards.
Other
* Awareness of the challenges faced by different groups of service users: for instance, people from ethnically diverse backgrounds, autistic people, and people who have experienced trauma.
* Commitment to SHSC’s Trust Values.
We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our values when you are applying.
We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. When you apply, you will have the opportunity to let us know if you require adjustments to be made, please contact us if you are not sure or if you require adjustments to the application process itself.
Our six staff network groups welcome new members:
* The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group
* The Disability Staff Network Group
* The Lived Experience Staff Network Group
* The Rainbow Staff Network Group
* The Staff Carers Staff Network Group
* The Women’s Staff Network Group
We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check (currently up to £48.23) must be met by the successful applicant(s).
When applying for this post you will be redirected to complete your application in our preferred applicant management system, Trac. If you are successfully offered a role, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email; please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
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