Patient Experience and Involvement Lead

Job summary

Do you love working with people? Are you passionate about diversity? Interested in hearing people's experiences and looking at what we could do more of, and less of to make a real difference to people's lives? Are you a peer support advocate, interested in the value of sharing lived experience, and supporting others through sharing your own experiences within health and social care? Can you vision a modern and exciting agenda for volunteering, working with people and communities, and with local partnerships? ....Then you might be the right person to join our Patient Experience and Involvement Team. We are a small team who have the pleasure of working with patient experience and community involvement across Doncaster, Rotherham, and North Lincolnshire. We will support the delivery of the new Trust Clinical and Operational Strategy, and lead the delivery of the LIVED Experience plan, with a focus on Lived Experience, Involvement, Volunteering, Experience of patients and carers and families, and Diversity of membership and leadership.

This is an exciting time to join the revised portfolio, working across the organisation, in each of our Places and systems, and with our communities and neighbourhoods. We have a track record for working in partnership locally and are keen to develop this further.

Main duties of the job

We have the pleasure of recruiting for a full-time band 6 (Agenda for Change) Patient Experience and Involvement Lead.

The post holder will lead on all aspects of experience and involvement, working with all people and communities, and with a focus on inclusion health, and reducing health inequalities in terms of access, experience, and outcomes of healthcare. You will be a skilled communicator, engaging with colleagues, patients, carers, and the public. You will be skilled at listening and responding to feedback and be able to develop and lead changes that support quality improvements. You will support the team to grow our approach to involvement ranging from Trust membership through to the code-sign and the co-production of services and developments.

If you have any queries or would like to discuss the role please contact me, Paula Rylatt, Deputy Patient Experience and Involvement Director. p.rylatt@nhs.net Mob- 07747 455412

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

http://workwith.rdash.nhs.uk/