SLP Strategic Involvement and Co-Production Lead | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

This is a great time to work with the SLP. This role is about ensuring the voice, experiences, opinions, skills and attributes of people with lived experience influence the work of the partnership as we continue commissioning specialised mental health in south London. During 2023 and 2024, we improved the way we work with people with lived experiences of services by providing various meaningful involvement opportunities. We want to go further and work with these people and others to ensure lived experience is at the heart of what we do.

The post holder will lead a newly formed patient experience, involvement and coproduction team whose focus will include supporting the work around reducing health inequalities and inclusion of harder to reach groups of people. The post holder will have lived experience as carer, family member and direct experience. Lived experience does not mean as a worker.

The post holder will work closely with external stakeholders to develop the SLP Involvement Strategy. It is a varied, challenging, and exciting role and one that needs someone with the motivation to build strong relationships with colleagues within the SLP, our partner trusts and external stakeholders to ensure lived experience is central to our commissioning decisions. Our services include Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Perinatal, Complex Care, Forensic & Adult Eating Disorder (AED).

The postholder will identify opportunities to enable service users, carers and members to be listened to and responded to as well as developing partnerships to plan, review and design service changes and improvements. This will include supporting the work around reducing health inequalities and inclusion of harder to reach groups of people.

The role will also lead and build on the innovative approach to engaging, supporting and developing patients/service users and carer active involvement with the development of secure services. This includes further development of Lived Experience roles and Experts by Experience. The post holder will work closely with external stakeholders to develop the SLP Involvement Strategy.

The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP):

The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, between them delivering mental health services to a population of more than 3.7 million people. The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and transform outcomes for some of our most complex and vulnerable patients requiring specialist mental health care services.

Our programmes aim to improve the lives of patients across Forensic (Adult Secure), Children and Young People (CAMHS Tier 4 - inpatients), Adult Eating Disorders, Perinatal, Complex Care, and Urgent and Emergency Care services. We have brought specialist mental healthcare closer to home, and outside of hospitals to community settings for many people, improving their recovery and quality of life.