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Main area: Research and Development
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Ends 31st March 2026)
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week (Starting 1st April 2025, fixed term until 31st March 2026)
Job ref: 173-05425-COR-A
Site: St Mary’s House
Town: Leeds
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
Are you passionate about mental health research and the importance of public involvement? If so, here’s an opportunity to put this interest into practice!
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to finding better ways to care for service users, carers and staff. We are looking to recruit a Patient Research Ambassador who will play an important role in ensuring that a service user and carer voice is reflected in all stages of research from the planning stage to the sharing of study findings.
You will work alongside existing service user and carer groups within the Trust, as well as with third sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
1. Manage and chair the Trust’s service user and carer research group (Help from Experts by Experience for Researchers).
2. Communicate and liaise with a wide range of people i.e. service users and staff, external agencies about the role of research in mental healthcare.
3. Help to provide the service user perspective in all aspects of research.
4. Attend Trust wide and external meetings to promote research and share the service user perspective.
Working for our organisation
We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.
We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.
We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.
As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The candidate will act as the main point of contact for service user and carer involvement in adult mental health research. They will chair and manage the Help from Experts by Experience for Researchers. Attendance at various internal and external meetings and events will be part of this role e.g. the Trust’s Service User Network. They will help to promote diversity in research by engaging with underrepresented groups within local communities. They will raise the profile of service user involvement in research e.g. by delivering training or sharing best practice. There may be a requirement for flexibility to work evenings and weekends on occasion.
Person specification
Knowledge
* A good understanding of how service user involvement and co-production works in practice.
Experience
* Experience of mental health services or research as a service user or carer, or as an advocate or representative of service users and carers.
Skills
* Ability to plan, manage & prioritise workload effectively.
* Excellent non-verbal and verbal communication skills.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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