This CAMHS role sits on the directorate's senior leadership team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, spanning four boroughs and crisis, inpatient and outpatient services. The core task is building the systems that bring young people and carers into service development, from strategy and recruitment to training and evaluation. Some evening and weekend work is needed for events, and the post links closely with trust-wide PPI leads. Experience of working with children, young people and families is essential, as is a masters-level qualification.
What the job involves
- Implement the Trust PPI strategy and develop and oversee a local Involvement and Engagement strategy for the Directorate
- Develop an effective service user and carer advisory group that works with Directorate senior management teams
- Develop systems for service users and carers to take part in the ongoing development of the Directorate
- Build systems to proactively identify, recruit and record service users and carers for involvement
- Develop varied modes of involvement and deliver training to service users, carers and staff
- Work with local PPI leads to build links with service user and carer groups in inpatient and community settings
- Evaluate engagement levels to improve service quality, safety and experience
- Work with other directorates and corporate teams, including the trust-wide Involvement and Engagement Team, for a consistent approach
- Ensure CAMHS PPI involvement is represented in trust-wide events and developments
- Develop and support accessible events, including some evening and weekend working
Qualifications
- Masters degree or equivalent
- Ongoing professional development
Experience
- Developing involvement and engagement or equality and diversity strategies
- Senior clinical or managerial experience initiating and implementing significant programmes without close supervision
- Managing resources, including budgetary responsibility
- NHS service development or project management relating to service user involvement or equality and diversity
- Partnership working across statutory and voluntary organisations
- Working with children, young people and families or carers
Skills & knowledge
- Communicating effectively with service user and senior management groups
- Leading change through influence without direct management
- Building close working relationships with individuals, teams and organisations, especially service users
- Knowledge of national policy on equality and diversity and service user involvement
- Computer literacy and competence in Microsoft Office
- Facilitating groups
Nice to have
- Facilitation certification or equivalent
- Experience of working in an inner city, multicultural environment
- Self-directed, autonomous practitioner
What’s offered
- Pay, pension and leave package, dependent on role and length of service
- Flexible working, including part-time and job share
- Career development through mentoring, coaching and talent programmes
- Car lease deals
- Keyworker housing on selected sites
- NHS discounts of up to 10% with retailers
- Counselling services and wellbeing events
- Cycle to work, season ticket loan, childcare vouchers, staff restaurants and long service awards
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