NHS

Co-Production Lead


Pay35,392.00 - 42,618.00 / year
LocationSouthampton/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: C9348-24-0752?language=en&page=8&sort=publicationDateDesc

      Job summary

      Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for providing 0-19 Public Health Nursing Services (Health Visiting, School Nursing and FNP), Child Health Information Service, School Aged Immunisation Service and Swanwick Lodge Secure Children's Home to Hampshire's children and families to ensure our children have the best start in life.

      Children and Family Services are looking for a Media, Marketing and Engagement Officer to work across Hampshire and IOW who has a passion for public health services and supporting children, young people and families.

      Main duties of the job

      As a leader working within the Children and Family 0-19 Service, the post holder will play an integral part to the delivery of our clinical strategy, ensuring that service users and their carers are heard and that we continue to work collaboratively and innovatively to improve service user experience.

      This post will lead on all aspects of planning, delivery and review of service user and carer participation and co-production in Children and Family Services.

      The post holder will work strategically across the directorate in order to develop and implement a service user and carer strategy that supports the broad participation agenda. They will project manage a variety of participation and co-production workstreams ensuring that service user and carer participation is co-ordinated and in line with local and trust wide strategies.

      Promoting and helping with the development of a culture that is truly socially inclusive, and that values participation, equality and diversity is another task for this role.

      About us

      Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

      As a Trust, our footprint spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities.

      - We function as a unified team, placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

      - Our 7,000+ workforce is skilled and diverse, with a deep commitment to ongoing staff development. We offer customised training, leadership pathways, and a plethora of career opportunities.

      - We respect and listen to your thoughts, ideas, and concerns via well-established network of staff groups to increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

      Building on all this, we are currently working closely with other local NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Our new organisation is set to launch in April 2024 and will incorporate Southern Health, Solent, Isle of Wight and Sussex Partnership Trusts.

      While the new Trust will be substantially bigger, it will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, streamlining services and making healthcare across the county more accessible.

      Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

      Date posted

      25 March 2024

      Pay scheme

      Agenda for change

      Band

      Band 6

      Salary

      £35,392 to £42,618 a year

      Contract

      Permanent

      Working pattern

      Full-time

      Reference number

      348-SS-4284

      Job locations

      Moorgreen Hospital

      Botley Road, West End

      Southampton

      Hampshire

      SO30 3JB


      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      To champion the importance of service user and carer experience in shaping Children and Family Services, ensuring this is at the hear of activities and informs service improvement.

      To implement participation related policies and support and share these and support colleagues in understanding these policies and how they impact on their roles and function.

      To ensure that the quality of the participation activity that occurs in Children and Family Service is of high standard and in line with the Trust standards.

      To identify and link up existing service user and carer participation activities across Children and Family Service

      To develop and maintain a network of service users and friends, family members or carers linked to the Division or specialist area.

      To work proactively and collaboratively with clinical teams to identify challenges around embedding the principles of good participation in their profession or team.

      Ensure that experts by experience are involved in all the key areas of business for the Trust.

      To champion the importance of service user and carer experience in shaping Children and Family Services, ensuring this is at the heart of activities and informs service improvement.

      To support a consistent approach to service user and carer experience in the Children and Family service and to review this annually with key stakeholders via an appropriate forum.

      To ensure that staff members across the Children and Family Service are fully engaged in service user and carer involvement policy and protocols, and that their views and ideas inform its ongoing development and implementation.

      To involve local service users and carers in developing engagement and feedback opportunities.

      To be responsible for monitoring service user and carer feedback and satisfaction in the Children and Family Service.

      To have oversight of service user experience data (including the Friends and Family Test) and activity in the Children and Family Service, sharing ideas and initiatives with the central participation team and reporting as appropriate in the local services.

      Able to write high quality reports, summary documents, slide decks and other communication devices for local leadership teams, experts by experience, service users and carers and the central participation team.

      Undertake surveys and audit of local participation activity, as necessary to facilitate the development of the people participation strategy.

      To monitor the ideas and opportunities for developing and improving Trust practice that are identified and developed by experts by experience, and to work with the central participation team in order make good use of Trust structures and processes and turn these ideas into realities.

      Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      To champion the importance of service user and carer experience in shaping Children and Family Services, ensuring this is at the hear of activities and informs service improvement.

      To implement participation related policies and support and share these and support colleagues in understanding these policies and how they impact on their roles and function.

      To ensure that the quality of the participation activity that occurs in Children and Family Service is of high standard and in line with the Trust standards.

      To identify and link up existing service user and carer participation activities across Children and Family Service

      To develop and maintain a network of service users and friends, family members or carers linked to the Division or specialist area.

      To work proactively and collaboratively with clinical teams to identify challenges around embedding the principles of good participation in their profession or team.

      Ensure that experts by experience are involved in all the key areas of business for the Trust.

      To champion the importance of service user and carer experience in shaping Children and Family Services, ensuring this is at the heart of activities and informs service improvement.

      To support a consistent approach to service user and carer experience in the Children and Family service and to review this annually with key stakeholders via an appropriate forum.

      To ensure that staff members across the Children and Family Service are fully engaged in service user and carer involvement policy and protocols, and that their views and ideas inform its ongoing development and implementation.

      To involve local service users and carers in developing engagement and feedback opportunities.

      To be responsible for monitoring service user and carer feedback and satisfaction in the Children and Family Service.

      To have oversight of service user experience data (including the Friends and Family Test) and activity in the Children and Family Service, sharing ideas and initiatives with the central participation team and reporting as appropriate in the local services.

      Able to write high quality reports, summary documents, slide decks and other communication devices for local leadership teams, experts by experience, service users and carers and the central participation team.

      Undertake surveys and audit of local participation activity, as necessary to facilitate the development of the people participation strategy.

      To monitor the ideas and opportunities for developing and improving Trust practice that are identified and developed by experts by experience, and to work with the central participation team in order make good use of Trust structures and processes and turn these ideas into realities.

      Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • Relevant degree or diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
      • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development

      Desirable

      • Training qualification

      Experience

      Essential

      • Experience of working with a diverse range of people in a dynamic environment
      • Experience of successful project management in a complex organisation
      • Experience and evidence of analysing, interpreting and presenting information
      • Experience of supporting managers and clinical staff

      Additional Criteria

      Essential

      • Demonstrable change management experience and the ability to communicate the future vision
      • Ability to work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders
      • Excellent leadership skills -- ability to inspire others
      • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
      • Presentation and group facilitation skills
      • Excellent organisational and planning skills
      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • Relevant degree or diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
      • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development

      Desirable

      • Training qualification

      Experience

      Essential

      • Experience of working with a diverse range of people in a dynamic environment
      • Experience of successful project management in a complex organisation
      • Experience and evidence of analysing, interpreting and presenting information
      • Experience of supporting managers and clinical staff

      Additional Criteria

      Essential

      • Demonstrable change management experience and the ability to communicate the future vision
      • Ability to work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders
      • Excellent leadership skills -- ability to inspire others
      • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
      • Presentation and group facilitation skills
      • Excellent organisational and planning skills

      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 details

      Employer name

      Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Moorgreen Hospital

      Botley Road, West End

      Southampton

      Hampshire

      SO30 3JB


      Employer's website

      https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Moorgreen Hospital

      Botley Road, West End

      Southampton

      Hampshire

      SO30 3JB


      Employer's website

      https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  • About the company

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