Job responsibilities
Help us reach every acute hospital in England.
Over one million people attend hospital due to their mental health each year. Most hospital staff have never received any mental health training. That means patients in crisis are often met by staff who feel unequipped, unsupported, and out of their depth leading to poor patient experiences and staff burnout.
We Can Talk exists to change that. We provide a one-hour e-learning programme built on the lived experience of patients who have attended hospital in mental health crisis. It's designed for every member of hospital staff clinical and non-clinical, from cleaners to consultants. Since 2017, we've trained over 35,000 staff and delivered £2M in national contracts. Originally focused on children and young people and previously available nationally via NHS England, we've since expanded to support patients of all ages and are now building direct partnerships with individual acute hospital trusts to reach all 1.1 million hospital staff working in the NHS.
We're a small organisation with a big ambition to transform this area of care. We're currently in contact with around one in three acute hospital trusts across England. What we need now is the right people alongside us to help turn those conversations into partnerships and connect with the trusts we haven't been able to reach yet.
The role
We're looking for one to two Partnership Leads experienced system leaders with established relationships with acute hospital decision-makers who want to help ensure every trust has access to We Can Talk training.
This is a freelance, commission-based role. You use your existing relationships to create conversations with the right people. We provide the information, materials, and support to help those conversations land. When a trust signs up, you earn a share of the contract.
What you lead on
Identifying acute NHS trusts where you have existing relationships with senior decision-makers, particularly Chief Nurses, Chief Operating Officers, and senior education or mental health leads. Making warm introductions and getting conversations started.
Following up after meetings, sharing materials, chasing responses, and keeping things moving through what can often be a slow internal process, and knowing when trusts are making decisions, so we can time our approach to land in the right moment.
What we do to support you
We Can Talk is built on a network of brilliant freelance professionals who have supported us to this point. We'll support you in whatever way works best, particularly through access to our founder Robin, who is available to pitch We Can Talk to any potential partner trust at the point that's right for the relationship.
Beyond that, we provide marketing collateral, briefing documents, a key facts deck, research links, email templates, and demo access. We handle supplier details, estimates, contracts, invoicing, onboarding, and the ongoing trust relationship once a deal closes.
We can also share trusts we've already been in contact with but haven't been able to reach at the right level. If you can get us connected, those are commission-eligible.
What you wouldn't do
- Cold call strangers this is about warm relationships, not volume outreach.
- Manage marketing campaigns or social media.
- Handle contracts, invoicing, or platform admin.
- Report to anyone day-to-day you manage your own time and approach.
Who we're looking for
You've likely spent years in the NHS and are now freelancing, consulting, or navigating your next chapter. Perhaps you've worked at NHS England at regional or national level, or at an Integrated Care Board as an executive or director. You might be a former Chief Nurse, Chief Operating Officer, or trust executive. Or a senior figure from a national organisation working closely with acute trusts.
The common thread is that you already have relationships with the people who make decisions in acute hospital trusts. You can send a message to a senior leader and get a genuine response not because you're selling something, but because you've worked alongside them for years and your endorsement matters.
Understanding our approach
We Can Talk isn't specialist mental health training for a handful of staff. It's foundational designed for everyone in the hospital. Our route in is often Chief Nurses, but this is an all-staff, all-trust challenge.
It started from a simple observation. In ten years working in emergency departments as a mental health nurse, Robin saw firsthand that anyone from a cleaner to a consultant can transform the experience of someone in crisis. That belief drives everything we do.
If you want to experience the training before taking any next steps, you can request demo access at https://wecantalk.com/demo/
Just mention the Partnership Lead role in the Additional Details section.
How you get paid
Commission is 10% of each contract value (excluding VAT), which works out to around £830 per trust. Our current pricing is £9,999 inc. VAT per acute trust for 12 months access, with options for group trusts depending on their needs.
For any deal invoiced before 5 April 2026, there's an additional £500 bonus on top of commission, bringing your earnings per deal to around £1,330. We're in the window right now where trusts are making purchasing decisions, and we want to maximise our impact this cycle. For many trusts, these decisions take time. Our record, however, is three weeks from initial contact to purchase order so there's still time.
We'll agree a set of trusts or geography that makes sense for your network could be a handful of ICBs or something broader for the right person.
This is a six-month freelance engagement with a review at three months. You run your own outreach, on your own schedule, using your own networks.
Why now
March to May is when NHS trusts make purchasing decisions. We're already in contact with around a third of all acute trusts in England, but need extra support to close deals in this cycle and reach the trusts we haven't connected with yet.
