Children and Young People Participation worker | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Woolwich, SE18 3RZ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6192070/277-6192070-CYP |
Summary
We are looking for a passionate, committed and experienced advocate of children, young people and their families. who is seeking an exciting development opportunity, in our innovative participation team which works across the Children and Young People’s Directorate at Oxleas NHS Trust.
The role involves ensuring the voices of children and their carers’ are heard and acted upon in helping to deliver improved care, increased accessibility and better outcomes, across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
You will join a team of skilled and dedicated practitioners who work to increase opportunities for children and their families to actively participate in the decisions that affect their lives, in the delivery of the services they receive and in the development of the policies that impact on them.
You will have:-
· Lots of creativity and energy
· Experience of leading and developing participation work
· Experience of advocating on behalf of children, young people and parents/carers
· A good understanding of mental health and specialist services for children and young people
· Great skills of engagement and communication with service users across different backgrounds
· Ability to build strong working relationships with staff within and across agencies at all levels including senior management
The job will involve working across the Children and Young People (CYP) directorate across the three boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich which are served by the Oxleas NHS Trust. The services which fall under the CYP directorate are CAMHS and Specialist Children’s Services.
To develop a Participation Strategy for CYP services in Oxleas to enable current and past service users and their families to help shape services for their continuing improvement to meet the mental and physical health needs of children and young people in boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
To continue to follow the above strategies to help services to deliver strategic goals, promote and encourage the participation of all young people and their carers.
Drawing on experience and expertise in the participation field, to lead on sustainable forms of participation and a diverse range of opportunities for children and young people to become involved in the boroughs and at Trust forums, and ensuring these are accessible to a range of young people e.g. those who are looked-after (LAC), involved with the Young offending service (YOS), Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) young people and children with disabilities.
To provide meaningful participation opportunities for children and young people such as co-production, allowing them to develop key skills and collaborate as active partners.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
The main responsibilities of this role are:
1. Developing and delivering a CYP Participation Strategy
To lead on developing a participation strategy to meet the long term needs of the trust wide CYP service to involve young people and carers in shaping services
2. Overseeing participation activities both at a tri-borough level and within each the 3 boroughs
To lead on implementing the participation strategy at a tri-borough level, ie to lead on the delivery of activities which connect to service delivery across the Oxleas CYP Directorate as a whole
3. Linking with clinicians at all levels and Leadership within CYP
To provide regular feedback and outcomes of participation activities to the leadership groups within the CYP directorate
4. Leading recruitment of young people and carers into participation activities
To develop a strategy to support the recruitment of young people to local and tri- borough participation groups
5. Leading on training of young people for leadership roles within participation
To devise a training program to enable young people to take on a leadership role within Children & Young People participation
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024
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