# Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Lead CAMHS **Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: London **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £66,274 to £73,496 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1013?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_83e4034d-ecb ## Description An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a CAMHS Patient and Public Involvement Lead. We are looking for someone who is dedicated to embedding our young people and carer's voices in all that we do. You will be working as part of the CAMHS Senior Leadership Team, across the directorate which covers four boroughs (Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon), National & Specialist Crisis, Inpatients and Outpatients departments. This role includes some evening and weekend working on occasions to develop and support accessible events. The CAMHS directorate is a supportive team and one of which you will be a valued and essential member of. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for a motivated and dynamic individual, but most importantly someone with a passion to ensure our young people and carers are at the centre of what we do, that their voices are not only heard but are an integral part of our day to day working, developing services and supporting our teams to provide outstanding care. The role requires strong compassionate leadership, working closely with staff, young people and families/ carers. There will be strong connections with our service PPI leads and trust PPI leads, ensuring CAMHS PPI involvement is represented in trustwide events and developments. ### Benefits We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including: - Generous pay, pensions and leave - Flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing - Career development opportunities through mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes - Car lease schemes - Keyworker housing on selected sites - NHS discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands - Counselling services - Wellbeing events - Long service awards - Cycle to work scheme - Season ticket loan - Childcare vouchers - Staff restaurants ### Job responsibilities - Implement the Trust PPI strategy, develop a local Involvement and Engagement strategy for the Directorate and oversee its implementation. - Develop systems whereby service users and carers can be involved in the ongoing development of the Directorate. - Develop systems and approaches to proactively and continuously identify and recruit service users and carers, and maintain appropriate records, to support their participation in involvement and engagement opportunities. - Develop a variety of modes of involvement suitable for a range of service users and carers, and develop, coordinate and deliver training to service users and carers and staff as required. - Work closely with local PPI Leads within the Directorate to develop links with service user and carer groups within inpatient and community settings, and work with teams to develop local engagement and involvement structures. - Evaluate levels of engagement on an ongoing basis to ensure the optimal impact on service quality, safety and experience. - Work closely with other Directorates and with relevant corporate departments including the trust wide Involvement and Engagement Team to ensure efficiency and consistency of approach. - Develop an effective service user and carer advisory group for the Directorate to ensure the views and experiences of people who use local services are at the heart of the development of the Directorate and its services. ### Person Specification #### Education & Qualification - Educated to masters standard or equivalent - Ongoing professional development - Facilitation Certification or equivalent (desirable) #### Experience - Experience of developing Involvement and Engagement or Equality and diversity strategies - Senior clinical and/or managerial experience which demonstrates the ability to initiate, develop and implement significant programmes of work without close supervision - Experience of managing resource, in particular budgetary responsibilities - Experience of service development/project management in the NHS in relation to service user involvement or equality and diversity - Experience of partnership working across statutory and voluntary organisations - Experience of working with children, young people & families/carers - Experience of working in an inner city, multicultural environment (desirable) - Self-directed, autonomous practitioner (desirable) #### Skill & Knowledge - Effective communications skills to a variety of service user and senior management groups - Leadership skills i.e. ability to lead and manage change through influence without direct management - Ability to develop close working relationship between individuals, teams and organisations, in particular with service users - Knowledge of national policy as it relates to equality and diversity and service user involvement - Computer literate and competent in the use of Microsoft suite - Facilitation of groups ## Skills ### Required - Microsoft suite - leadership - communication - facilitation - project management - budget management ### Nice to have - facilitation certification - experience of working in an inner city multicultural environment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1013?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)