Job responsibilities Please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification. Lived experience is an essential requirement for this role. This could be lived experience of supporting a child who has been in a CAMHS inpatient unit, or of supporting a child who has additional needs that require more specialist support from social care, school or other CAMHS services. Alternatively, you might have other related lived experience - perhaps of a family member who has required support and treatment across the Health, Social Care and/or Education system, or of a child who has been an inpatient for a physical health reason. To undertake the Family Ambassador role, you must be comfortable sharing your lived experience and acting as a champion for the value of lived experience not only within the inpatient unit where they you assigned, but also amongst the wider provider collaborative team. Family Ambassadors need to encourage clinical teams to embrace the value of involving lived experience in meaningful conversations at all levels. There will be a full induction programme, training and infrastructure in place to support you around this. Whatever your lived experience, most important is your ability to empathise and understand the widespread needs of the individual families who you will be supporting. You will need to communicate effectively with families to help them navigate through the often complex Tier 4 service in order to best support their young person. You will need to show empathy, understanding, kindness and the ability to develop trust and rapport with families, professionals and the wider Collaborative team. The Family Ambassador project has been developed in response to a range of recommendations from various reports identifying that the voice of parents and carers in their young person's pathway is often not heard and can be excluded from essential decisions. Parents and carers have a unique perspective on the care needs of their young people and should be embraced as part of the decision-making team with the young person at the heart of the pathway. As a Family Ambassador you will enable parents and carers to be seen, heard and involved; subject to the appropriate consents of the young person.