Engagement Lead - RHS
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Ashton-under-Lyne, England, United Kingdom · Full Time
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- 1 week ago
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- In office
- Eligibility
- Applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The organisation particularly welcomes people with lived experience of mental illness, either personally or as a carer.
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Where you'll work
Job description
Overview
This is a three-month secondment position based across the RHS Care Hub, working in partnership with the RHS Quality Team. The focus of the role is service development and continuous improvement, with a strong emphasis on making sure service users, their families, loved ones, and staff help shape how the service is designed and delivered.
You will play an important part in strengthening the quality agenda, supporting coproduction, and improving experiences and outcomes for service users and carers. The post calls for someone who is genuinely committed to enhancing care by working collaboratively and valuing the input of those who use and support the service.
Key responsibilities
The role involves reviewing improvement opportunities, tracking progress, and providing project management support across agreed workstreams. You will help lead specific projects that contribute to quality goals and service development.
- Deliver agreed actions arising from peer reviews, quality plans, audits, feedback, and similar sources.
- Improve the overall experience of service users.
- Support the creation of a sustainable health and wellbeing college that helps service users manage their own wellbeing.
- Help implement the Triangle of Care and the Family and Carer Strategy so that carers and loved ones receive a consistently positive experience of care.
- Build coproduction activity within the Care Hub.
- Work with the Head of Quality to develop patient forums and patient experience dashboards.
- Contribute to the design of a specialist training programme for RHS staff.
- Provide clinical leadership and supervision when needed.
About the service
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust delivers high-quality mental health and learning disability services, both in inpatient settings and within the community, across five Greater Manchester boroughs: Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop.
The Trust aims to support a happier and more hopeful future for the people in its communities, and staff are expected to help deliver the best possible care. The organisation highlights pride in its people and its commitment to being a positive place to work.
Additional information
This post is offered as a 3 month secondment.
Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or marital and civil partnership status.
The organisation also encourages candidates with lived experience of mental illness to apply, whether that experience is personal or as a carer.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working options to help support work-life balance.
- Access to continuing professional development opportunities.
- Opportunities to take part in improvement and research activity.
- Health and wellbeing support, including access to a dedicated staff wellbeing service.
- Staff discounts covering retail, leisure, and travel.
Contact
For informal enquiries, contact Kirsty Vernon, Interim Head of Quality - RHS, at kirsty.vernon@nhs.net.