CYP Participation & Co-Production Worker

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.