Carers and Young People's Involvement Lead

The purpose of this role is to work with the Involvement and Partnership Team focusing on two key areas: supporting the development of a robust carer culture within the Trust and developing coproduction and involvement with a focus on increasing involvement with young people.

The post holder will work closely with other members in the team to support the development of a robust culture of involvement and coproduction across the Trust. The post holder will coordinate the carers (including young carers) work programme and support programs of work in the Trust aimed at improving the experience of carers.

To lead on the development of creating robust involvement opportunities for young people and young adults (likely to be aged between 14 to 25) including young people who have used health services to ensure that the views of young people are heard and contribute to Trust and service development.

To provide leadership in the development of a robust approach to ensuring that carers including young carers are identified within the Trust and that their needs are recognised and addressed.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- To lead on the development of creating robust involvement opportunities for young people and young adults (likely to be aged between 14 to 25) including young people who have used health services to ensure that the views of young people are heard and contribute to Trust and service development.
- To lead and support the involvement of young people in Trust projects which have been identified as requiring young person’s perspective and involvement.
- To ensure that all involvement opportunities for young people are beneficial to their own personal development and support their future career aspirations and wellbeing.
- Where appropriate collaborate with statutory and non-statutory organisations to create a robust network of young people’s involvement and co production.
- To lead on collaborating with other partners within the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to expand and support the development of a system approach for involving young people in co-production.
- To lead on attending events relevant to young people and creating relationships across the system to support and publicise involvement opportunities within the Trust and across the community for young people.
- To ensure that all young people’s involvement (including social media accounts) has an appropriate governance framework to ensure the that safeguarding young people remains central to good involvement practise.
- To take responsibility for maintaining the carer and involvement social media accounts, the carer intranet pages, and public webpages related to carers and ensuring a robust and engaging information is available.
- To be responsible for the development and management of age-appropriate social media accounts including (but not limited to) Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok for young people’s involvement.
- To lead on attending events relevant to young people and creating relationships across the system to support and publicise involvement opportunities within the Trust and across the community for young people.
- Take responsibility for the development with young people of a young people’s involvement strategy linking this to the Trust Involvement strategy.
- To be up to date with relevant literature regarding young people’s involvement and co production.
- To be responsible for managing the payment process of young people when they are involved in co production activities adhering to the Trust policy regarding reimbursement for co production.
- To contribute to the development of events to celebrate co production week.
- To provide leadership in the development of a robust approach to ensuring that carers are identified within the Trust and that their needs are recognised and addressed and collaborate with the clinical directorates and corporate directorate on ensuring that this is embedded.
- In conjunction with the Associate Director of Involvement and Partnerships to collaborate with our system partners (statutory and non-statutory) and carers on identified projects focused on carers and other relevant groups.
- To ensure that key projects related to carers are embedded within the Trust. These include Carer Friend