Bank Mental Health Young Advisors

4 weeks ago


Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time


Job overview

Join the Trust Bank to support Young People and Mental Health.

This role is only open to applicants aged between 18-25 years old.

This is a flexible position for varying hours – up to 10 hours a month.

Are you passionate about working with young people and speaking up about mental health experiences?

This is an exciting role within our Children and Families Mental Health Function to support and advocate the views of Children and Young people across South Staffordshire to influence and champion the priorities and decisions made in relation to Children and Young People's Mental Health Service delivery.

Ensuring the voices of experts by experience are reshaping, co-producing and influencing services to improve the experience of young people accessing services.

If you are interested and have the experience of the below, please get in touch.

  • Are you passionate about advocating the views and experiences of young people and mental health services?
  • Do you have an interest in engaging and connecting with children and young people and other stakeholders?
  • You are driven to challenge, influence and inspire change?
  • Do you want to improve and support the changes in mental health services for children and young people?
  • Have personal experience of children's mental health services?
  • Knows someone who has used mental health services and are inspired to drive change?
  • Passionate about improving experiences for young people?


Main duties of the job

The young advisor role is instrumental in ensuring that the voices and experience of young people, who have used or are interested in improving and shaping Mental Health services, are heard and listened to. This role will ensure that participation and feedback influence the future delivery and design of service development.

This role will lead on engaging children and young people across service to share their experiences, ideas and thoughts are considered at all levels, and that they are fully represented in local service improvement projects.



Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

  • Supporting your career development and progression
  • Excellent NHS Pension scheme
  • Options for flexible working
  • Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
  • If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
  • Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
  • Free car parking at all trust sites
  • Free flu vaccinations every year
  • Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.



Detailed job description and main responsibilities
  • Co-producing and co-delivering training, or materials for mental health workers based on young people's views and experiences of using services.
  • Working with local partnerships and other colleagues working within Mental Health Services to inform what is needed to improve services.
  • Visiting groups, forums, and services across South Staffordshire to offer your support and advice.
  • Planning locality wide partnership workshops and events.
  • Speaking at events as experts on participation and on sharing the experiences of young people
  • To attend formal events.
  • Working together with peers to develop and review resources.
  • To participate in trust training.
  • Attending strategic meetings to make sure young people's views are heard.
  • Chairing or co-chairing meetings, with support if this is needed.

For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents



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