CYP Participation & Co-Production Worker
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
The Participation Worker will work with children/young people, and their families/carers, who have used NHFT services. The participation worker will support the recruitment and training of young people and carers to prepare them for co-production activity. They will design, coordinate and report meaningful participation and co-production activities with young people and families, ensuring their voices influence NHFT service development.
The Children's Participation and Co-Production Team coordinate all co-production activity for NHFT's Children's Services including Universal Services, Physical Health Services, Therapy Services and Mental Health Services and iDiscover. Every child in Northamptonshire has access to our services and we are committed to ensuring that the Participation and Co-Production Team represents the inclusive population. The team works closely with healthcare services and practitioners to recruit service users and embed their lived experience into service design. The Participation Worker supports Young People and adult supporters with lived experience to co-produce resources and courses for iDiscover. The Children's Directorate is part of the wider NHFT family. Our mission in NHFT is to Make a Difference for You, With You, and our vision is to be a leading provider of outstanding compassionate care.
Main duties of the job
* Face to face and remote working with children, young people, parents/carers, education colleagues and NHFT Healthcare practitioners; the participation worker will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary and team-based working environment.
* Use of database and production of reports to reflect co-production activity; the Participation Worker will be IT literate with the ability to use electronic systems, spreadsheets/databases and produce reports and statistics.
* Supporting young people to participate in recruitment activity; delivery of training, coordinating invitations and attendance for interview panels.
* Coordinate a varied workload; the Participation Worker will facilitate co-production and expert by experience groups, support recruitment activity, promote sign up to the Participation Network; work 1:1 with Young People/families to collect patient stories.
* Sensitive and empathetically work with young people that have experienced difficult experiences.
* Advocate for the voice of young people and children.
* Develop expertise in co-production.
* Creatively plan and co-facilitate the Youth Advisory Board.
Applicants must hold a valid UK driving license and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Job responsibilities
This crucial role includes the facilitation of various Participation Groups, and consolidation of feedback received from our service users and their families/carers; providing this in a way that will assist services in the development of a service-user and carer informed service.
The successful candidate will be supported and managed by the Participation Lead, whom they will work closely with to embed and develop the Participation agenda across Services, with co-production at the heart of all Service re-design.
This varied role will involve working with Clinical and non-Clinical staff across all Services, therefore excellent communication skills at different levels are integral.
Including Service Users in our Recruitment and Interview process is important to us. An essential part of this role will also be to work with Recruiting Managers across all CYP Services to embed and facilitate Service User involvement in this process.
This successful candidate will be expected to cover appropriate elements of the Quality Assurance Team tasks to ensure business continuity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to A Level or equivalent.
Experience
* Working with CYP for at least 1 year
* Experience of administrative processes
* Basic knowledge of IT processes
* Organisational skills
* Has facilitated groups/forums
* Experience of working in healthcare
* Experience of co-production
* Experience managing difficult situations/problem solving
* Experience working with system partners
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Participation and Co-Production Service Lead
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