Participation Lead - Offender Health

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

To lead participation across the Offender Health portfolio ensuring that the people who use services, their carers & families, our staff (clinical and operational) and system partners are engaged to co-produce innovative approaches to build and shape healthcare services and care pathways that are safe, quality driven and outcome focused.

Working with staff and managers within Offender Health, the post holder will create opportunities for people who use services and their carers & families, to co-produce and co-design plans for improvements and change through sharing their experiences, reviewing data & Insight and monitoring outputs and the impact of changes.

The post holder will lead the development of opportunities that build the knowledge, skills and confidence amongst people with a lived experience to enable equitable participation. Alongside building approaches that challenge Offender Health services to increase participation and co-production in practice development in line with national care standards, best practice in Offender Health and demonstrating our Trust values.

Main duties of the job

1. Ensure that people who use services and their families are central in a wide range of Involvement and participation opportunities within the Offender Health services and activities.
2. Support people with a lived experience of services to participate in Offender Health & wider Trust based activity.
3. Hold Offender Health services to account to develop opportunities for people with a lived experience to contribute to Offender Health involvement and coproduction activity.
4. Enable people with a lived experience and staff to design and implement change ideas, monitoring and reporting on impact and effectiveness.
5. Share learning and impact across the Trust and wider system, helping to spread the changes and improvements.
6. The post holder will be working across all Offender Health Prisons driving awareness, involvement, participation and coproduction through creating inclusive partnerships with people with a lived experience, families, volunteers and communities.
7. Collaborate and build inclusive approaches that respond to the diversity of patients, their families, and communities to ensure equitable approaches that foster inclusion and allyship.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Job responsibilities

As part of an ambitious program of development we are building and improving the culture of participation and co-production within Offender Health care pathways for patients, their families and staff, focusing on safety, quality and ensuring they are equitable places to be cared for, and fulfilling places to work. The programme of development will innovate and test a range of locally designed change ideas using Quality Improvement approaches which will be organised across the following areas:

1. Lived experience: We value lived experience, at all levels of activity including design, delivery, governance and oversight.
2. Safety: People on our wards feel safe and cared for.
3. Relationships: High-quality, rights-based care starts with trusting relationships and the understanding that connecting with people is how we help everyone feel safe.
4. Staff support: We support all staff so that they can be present alongside people in their distress.
5. Equality: We are inclusive and value difference; we take action to promote equity in access, treatment and outcomes.
6. Avoiding harm: We actively seek to avoid harm and traumatisation, and acknowledge harm when it occurs.
7. Needs led: We respect peoples own understanding of their distress.
8. Choice: Nothing about me without me we support the fundamental right for patients and (as appropriate) their support network to be engaged in their care.
9. Environment: Our inpatient spaces reflect the value we place on our people.
10. Therapeutic support: We offer people a range of therapy and support that gives them hope things can get better.
11. Transparency: We have open and honest conversations with patients and each other, and name the difficult things.

Please note that this post does not meet the pay level required for a Skilled worker visa. Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Person Specification

Contractural Requirements

• Be able to travel to different Trust Sites

Experience

• Experience of mental health services as a service user or carer
• Experience of working with people in partnership on projects and activities that have achieved results
• Experience of working with service users, carers and the public and of resolving issues that arise from this with a sensitive, friendly and helpful approach
• Experience of working with culturally diverse communities and of equal opportunity requirements
• Ability to manage complex work systems and demands

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

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year (pro rata for part time)