CAMH Service Development Lead- Community Participation & Health Equity

Job summary

We are excited to offer this new-to-CAMHS service development role which will be of interest to experienced and passionate practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds. This post is for 32 hours per week (0.8 WTE).

You will work with senior leaders/partners transforming existing CAMH services playing a key role in holding CAMHS to account whilst informing & facilitating learning and development across the service.

There will be opportunities to influence system-level change alongside community stakeholders & young people seldom seen within CAMHS.

Practitioners who value working collaboratively to advance health equity and who strive to support LPT CAMHS to become an exemplar of best practice will thrive within this role.

Focusing on communities facing marginalisation across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, you will seek to improve CAMHS services from the perspective of children & young people facing mental health distress who require but are not currently accessing CAMH level services.

As a subject matter expert, your personal and professional experience and knowledge will be crucial to driving this role forward though you will receive solidarity and support from existing leaders/groups working within CAMHS/LPT including CAMHS Race Equity Group, EDI leaders, Patient Involvement services & Data Analysts.

Candidates who demonstrate breadth/depth of skill set equivalent to Masters level or beyond are strongly encouraged to apply regardless of qualifications achieved.

Main duties of the job

You will provide advice, support, consultation and critique to our leadership team, feeding into multiple improvement workstreams. As a subject matter expert, you will bring existing knowledge and skills to support service development whilst also working collaboratively with local communities to ensure the needs and perspectives of seldom heard groups are embedded into improvement plans.

You will work alongside existing local and regional partners whilst also seeking to develop new partnerships with local stakeholders and reaching out directly to communities facing long-standing barriers in accessing mental health services. You will play a role in identifying priority communities/areas of need and advise on service development opportunities alongside the identified communities themselves.

You will create local information resources and community stakeholder maps to embed sustainable community participation processes into the day-to-day running/development of CAMHS. You will maintain a database of your work and, alongside data analyst colleagues, ensure CAMHS are utilising community demographic sets capable of supporting health equity improvement work.

You will provide day-to-day management and clinical supervision to a small number of colleagues as required. You will also contribute to the training of new and existing members of staff to improve workforce knowledge/understanding of factors impacting and arising from marginalisation in relation to mental health.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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