This post is for someone with significant experience of involvement and co-production, a good understanding of the needs of Older People, and with postgraduate qualification experience relevant to Older People’s Mental Health services (OPMH).
The job will involve working across the OPMH Teams in the community directorate across the three boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich which are served by the Oxleas NHS Trust, and work with voluntary and community sector organisations.
The job will involve working with older people, their friends, families and carers, clinicians, managers, and allied professionals. The post-holder will be involved in recruiting, engaging and training older people to develop participation activities as well as linking with clinicians, managers, and external partner organisations and report to senior level leadership groups.
They will be responsible for line managing a Band 4 role that focuses on Service User involvement in OPMH.
Key Responsibilities:
* To develop a Participation Strategy for OPMH services in Oxleas to enable current and past service users and their families to help shape services for their continuing improvement, to meet the mental health needs of older people in the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich.
* To continue to oversee or follow the above strategies to help services deliver strategic goals, promote and encourage the participation of all older people and their carers.
* To provide meaningful participation opportunities for older people such as involvement and co-production, allowing them to develop key skills and collaborate as active partners.
* With support from Involve, to build on the existing participation activities across the Trust and within the 3 boroughs.
* To develop a facilitative process that encourages and supports older people’s participation in OPMH strategy.
* To liaise with and support current borough participation groups.
* To lead on the recruitment of older people and carers for participation activities.
* To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, development, and implementation of participation activities.
* To feed back to engagement stakeholders on how older peoples’ input has contributed to the delivery of and improvement of OPMH service priorities.
* To work autonomously within the overall framework of the Involve, Community Mental Health Directorate and the Trust’s policies and procedures.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values:
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Japleen Kaur Job title: Assistant Director of Involvement Email address: japleen.kaur@nhs.net Telephone number: 07824433395
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