Cyp Participation and Engagement Worker

Cheshire Child & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMH) recognise the importance of listening to and learning from families lived experience of our services and want to ensure that this is meaningful and brings influence to our future service provision.

We have a new exciting role that will work with the Participation & Engagement Lead for the Children, Young People & Families Care Group and our Participation & Engagement Champions to help us develop and embed the participation & engagement of children, young people and families within our Cheshire CYPMH services.

The successful applicant, as part of this role, will also take a lead on Social Media for Cheshire CYPMH and support and update our CYP Website - MyMind.org.uk

The post holder will contribute to the participation and engagement of children, young people and their families/carers and stakeholders to inform service improvement and development and take a lead on the Community Social Media and input into MyMind (CYPMH Website).

Post Holder will support Cheshire community team P&E champions

Post Holder will offer support to MHST colleagues with regard P&E support in schools ( MHST will lead on this)

Post Holder will support in the continual development of Listen Up Groups Cheshire Wide

Post holder will take lead on Social Media for CYPMH in Cheshire

Post Holder will have access to CWP CYP MyMind website, post holder will be supporting developments & updating MyMind

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 have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running. CWP also scored the highest in the north west (among mental health, learning disability and community Trusts) for staff “recommending CWP as a place to work” in the NHS Staff Survey 2020.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool - and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

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. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

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

To ensure that we continue to provide ‘Outstanding for Care’ (as recently been awarded by CQC), 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 your disability 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 also inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

All new clinical support staff will be required to have completed or working towards the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 6 months of start date).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. Please note that DBS costs will be waived for applicants who are being recruited for COVID-19 reasons.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies. Please see attached “Update Service Applicant Guide” document for further information.

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