Participation lead

Job overview

The Participation Lead is a key role within the Greater Manchester Child & Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHs) Lead Provider Collaborative (LPC) Commissioning Team (CT). The post holder will play a key role in supporting the collaborative to meet national requirements and deliver the objectives set out in the Business Plan.

The post holder will actively develop Children and Young Peoples Specialist Inpatient (and other associated services such as FCAMHS and GMAIC) Mental Health service user and parent/ carer involvement within the Greater Manchester and the CAMHS Lead Provider Collaborative, ensuring that service user participation is an integrated aspect of all work and service development. The post holder will be responsible for managing and developing User Partnership Groups, for both children, young people, families and carers and will also support the GM CAMHS LPC in developing and promoting a partnership approach to working with  children, young people and parents and carers.  The post holder will actively contribute to the strategic and service development of the GM  CAMHS LPC through working with the lead provider, providers and collaborating agencies, establishing positive relationships with existing participation organisations across the Greater Manchester and North West footprint.  The postholder will play an integral role in supporting the LPC to deliver effective commissioning and transformation programmes.

Main duties of the job

• To lead on and promote the meaningful participation of children and young people and parent / carers across the GM CAMHS Provider Collaborative service development, delivery and evaluation.
• Work with children and young people/families/carers/local community groups to build relationships and develop/maintain a strong, vibrant and lasting resources that can help shape our services.
• Provide support to children, young people, families and carers to enable them to meaningfully contribute to service improvement.
• Work together with existing service user and carer forums and to develop specific feedback around the goals of the GM CAMHS LPC.
• To participate in the development and implement of The Participation/Co-Production Manifesto and associated action plans.
• Attendance at Leadership Forums and other senior meetings to share the views of service users and carers at these events.
• Provide a positive challenge to senior leaders in relation to service user and carer involvement in all aspects of service design and delivery.
• Developing new ways of taking feedback from service users and carers and managing these locally where needed.
• To ensure that user participation includes a focus and appropriate representation from hard-to-reach groups and minority communities by developing creative and effective ways to encourage participate.
• To provide support and training to relevant stakeholders and staff in relation to user participation and public engagement activities.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester – Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel