CYP Participation & Co-Production Worker

The Participation Worker will work with children/young people, and their families/carers, who have used NHFT services. The participation worker will support the recruitment and training of young people and carers to prepare them for co-production activity. They will design, coordinate and report meaningful participation and coproduction activities with young people and families, ensuring their voices influence NHFT service development.

The Children’s Participation and Co-Production Team coordinate all co-production activity for NHFT’s Children’s Services including Universal Services, Physical Health Services, Therapy Services and Mental Health Services and iDiscover. Every child in the Northamptonshire has access to our services and we are committed to ensure that the Participation and Co-Production Team represent the inclusive population. The team works closely with healthcare services and practitioners to recruit service users and embed their lived experience into service design. The Participation Worker supports Young People and adult supporters with lived experience to co-produce resources and courses for iDiscover. The Children’s Directorate is part of the wider NHFT family. Our mission in NHFT is to Make a Difference for You, With You, and our vision is to be a leading provider of outstanding compassionate care., + Face to face and remote working with children, young people, parents/carers, education colleagues and NHFT Healthcare practitioners; the participation worker will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary and team based working environment.

• Use of database and production of reports to reflect co-production activity; the Participation Worker will be IT literate with ability to use electronic systems, spreadsheets/databases and produce reports and statistics.

• Supporting young people to participate in recruitment activity; delivery of training, coordinating invitations and attendance for interview panels.

• Coordinate a varied workload; the Participation Worker will facilitate co-production and expert by experience groups, support recruitment activity, promote sign up to the Participation Network; work 1:1 with Young People/families to collect patient stories.

• Sensitive and empathetically work with young people that have experienced difficult experiences.

• Advocate for the voice of young people and children.

• Develop expertise in co-production.

• Creatively plan and co-facilitate the Youth Advisory Board.

Applicants must hold a valid UK driving license, have access to a vehicle for work purposes., This crucial role includes the facilitation of various Participation Groups, and consolidation of feedback received from our service users and their families/carers; providing this in a way that will assist services in the development of a service-user and carer informed service.

The successful candidate will be supported and managed by the Participation Lead, whom they will work closely with to embed and develop the Participation agenda across Services, with co-production at the heart of all Service re-design.

This varied role will involve working with Clinical and non-Clinical staff across all Services, therefore excellent communication skills at different levels are integral.

Including Service Users in our Recruitment and Interview process is important to us. An essential part of this role will also be to work with Recruiting Managers across all CYP Services to embed and facilitate Service User involvement in this process.

This successful candidate will be expected to cover appropriate elements of the Quality Assurance Team tasks to ensure business continuity.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Important Information

Applications will be transferred to the TRAC system, by completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.