Engagement and Participation Worker

Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

We are excited to be advertising for a Band 6 Engagement and Participation Worker to join our team on a part-time basis (22.5 hours a week). This role is being offered on a fixed term basis (1 year).

We are seeking a motivated and creative individual to join our small, dynamic team, dedicated to improving services through participation and co-production. In this role, you will work closely with children, young people, parents, and carers to develop and facilitate participation groups and innovative projects aimed at capturing meaningful feedback from service users.

If youre passionate about empowering individuals, supporting collaboration, and driving service improvement through lived experience and co-production, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include: Support and oversee organisation-wide engagement activities and co-design projects with service users.

• To plan and support regular CFHD participation groups for children and young people and parents and carers.
• Contribute to the continued development and improvement of user participation culture within the organisation.
• Using community engagement skills, to recruit and support participation volunteers.
• Using story telling as a tool to increase participation and understanding of service user experience
• Supporting people with Lived Experience when participating in involvement activities

Job responsibilities

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

Our children and young people say

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.