Band 5 - Carer Involvement Coordinator - Bristol

An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated person who is passionate about improving experience for all AWP secure carers, to join the specialist community forensic team and Inpatient secure service.
In the SCFT we have a strong focus on carer involvement to improve our service users and carers experience and to continually improve services. This post will be integral to further developing services ensuring the carer view is included.
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Involvement Coordinator to work within Community and Inpatient Services. In this post you will liaise and work with carers from a diverse range of backgrounds and communities whose family members are currently or have recently been involved with Secure mental health services., The post holder will champion carer and service user involvement in secure community and inpatient services. The post holder will have first-hand experience of mental health problems and will be able to draw upon this experience in all areas of their role.
The post holder will support the development of carer involvement opportunities and groups for AWP and as part of Secure mental health services.
The post holder's role includes:
· Support & work with individual carers, carers & groups with involvement activities and projects within the locality, within a co-production model.
· Liaise & work with a range of carer and carer led networks and groups across the locality
· Support groups and projects & ensure co-production is central.
· Work with inpatient and community teams to ensure carer and carer involvement is embedded in practice.
· Work in line with Trust and NHS England strategies for carer/carer involvement, engagement, participation and social inclusion., + Identify carer representatives who are willing to be involved in secure services projects/groups/meetings and keep details of the carer/carer representatives on a Trust database.
+ Support the development of delivering training programmes with a range of carers
+ Identify strategies and ways of working that bring forward the views of carers and service users that are traditionally marginalised, and that represent a diverse range of communities.
+ Advice and work with the locality to develop a plan for carer and service user involvement, this may involve collating information and/or informing the locality.
+ Work with the locality and their staff to develop best practice in carer and carer involvement and embed this as part of the mainstream practice. This will include delivering carer and carer involvement training to staff, advising and working with staff to measure the outcomes of these initiatives e.g. carer/carer evaluation tools.
+ Participate in Trust wide groups, initiatives and activities to bring forward carers and carers perspectives; this will include giving presentations.
+ Link in with other locality Involvement Coordinators and the Trust's Patient Experience team to ensure consistency around carer/carer involvement across the Trust.
+ Contribute to or deliver the facilitation, chairing and organizing of meetings, events and conferences to support carer/carer involvement or related initiatives.
+ Contribute to developing and implementing a locality mechanism for involving carers and carers.
+ Link with external and independent carer/carer networks and carer/carer colleagues so that the Trust develops and benefits from good relationships and partnerships with those who offer independent scrutiny, challenge and support for MH services and the Trust
+ Link with local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations, Mental Health workers in the voluntary sector and LINks (Local Involvement Networks) so that the Trust develops and benefits from good relationships and partnerships with other providers, advocacy services and organisations able to offer independent scrutiny, challenge and support for MH services and the Trust
+ Identify and work with community and faith organisations that can support carer/carer involvement in the Trust from communities or carers traditionally excluded including black and minority ethnic communities, children and young people and homeless people.
+ Link and support carer/carer relationships with commissioners and bring a carer/carer perspective to joint work
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system 'TRAC'. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.