Participation and Engagement Worker

1 week ago

Chester, United Kingdom CWP Full time

**Main area**
- Participation and Engagement Worker**Grade**

NHS AfC: Band 4

**Contract**

Fixed term: 12 months

**Hours**
- Full time
- Flexible working

37.5 hours per week**Job ref**

373-CSS1034

**Site**
- Redesmere, Countess of Chester Health Park**Town**

Chester

**Salary**

£25,147 - £27,596 per annum

**Salary period**

Yearly

**Closing**

08/05/2024 23:59

**Job overview**:
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Lead Provider Collaborative Commissioning Team have an exciting opportunity for a person with great communication skills and a passion for patient care.

We are seeking a proactive and enthusiastic Participation and Engagement Worker to join our dynamic team. As the Participation and Engagement Worker, you will champion the ethos of participation and engagement, ensuring that the voices of all stakeholders are heard and valued.

This vacancy is 12 months fixed term

**Main duties of the job**:
The Participation and Engagement worker plays a pivotal role in organizing the participation of service users and stakeholders to inform service development. You will ensure that participation is a positive and mutually beneficial experience for everyone involved, addressing any barriers to access or support that may arise.

You will support the transformation of services by cultivating a wide network of stakeholders and championing participation within the organization and partner agencies. Recognizing the importance of vulnerable and protected groups, they ensure their active engagement in service design processes.

You will identify involvement opportunities for service users, provide necessary support, and remain flexible in engagement approaches to maximize opportunities. You must work across districts to ensure equal engagement opportunities and coordinate service user involvement during recruitment. Upholding professional standards, attending collaborative meetings, fostering innovation, maintaining relationships, providing updates through newsletters, leading digital platform development, and collating feedback are among your key duties.

**Working for our organisation**:
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a **_Values Based Interview/Assessment_**,** which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Educated to NVQ 3 level of qualification and previous proven experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Relevent qualification in Participation and Engagem

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