Family Ambassador

Do you have lived experience of being a parent or carer of a young person who has needed a Tier 4 inpatient admission? Could you use your skills to help and support other families?, To work with colleagues across the regions to ensure the delivery of improvements through Ambassador roles of parental and carer experience, engagement and involvement across all CYP inpatient units and demonstrate the value of Ambassador roles.

Actively contribute to the evaluation of the Ambassador Programme

Sharing concerns and/or escalating unresolved concerns to the Regional Ambassador as required.

To act as a champion for parents, carers, patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England and NHS Improvement.

To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.

To embed patient and public involvement within NHS England and NHS Improvement at all levels of decision making.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the Lead Provider of the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (WMCPC) - an integrated provision of specialist mental health, learning disability and autism services, for young people aged 12-18.

Provider collaboratives like ours have been established across England to encourage closer regional partnership working. This means that for the first time, pathway and budget management is WMCPC's responsibility, giving us the autonomy and opportunity to reinvest savings into community and step-down services that our region's young people need the most.

We hope that by working collaboratively, using local data and listening and working closely with our service users, we will be able to reduce the number of young people admitted to inpatient services, drive down length of stay, bring care closer to home and ultimately improve the outcome and experience of every young person we see.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation., Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the Lead Provider of the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (WMCPC) - an integrated provision of specialist mental health, learning disability and autism services, for young people aged 12-18.

Provider collaboratives like ours have been established across England to encourage closer regional partnership working. This means that for the first time, pathway and budget management is WMCPC's responsibility, giving us the autonomy and opportunity to reinvest savings into community and step-down services that our region's young people need the most.

Here in the West Midlands - and across the country - those who need an inpatient admission experience either a long wait for a bed or are admitted to hospitals far from home.

We hope that by working collaboratively, using local data and listening and engaging with our service users, we will be able to reduce the number of young people admitted to inpatient services, drive down length of stay, bring care closer to home and ultimately improve the outcome and experience of every young person we see.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.