Workforce Development Facilitator: Suicide Prevention

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Statement

A dynamic and motivated leader, you will work across multiple partners and sectors to strategically a lead the health and care staff and volunteers strand of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Suicide Prevention Strategy 2022- 2027.

(A copy of the current strategy can be downloaded from the West Yorkshire Suicide Prevention website: Suicide Prevention Strategy Plan 2022-2027 :: WYH Suicide Prevention (suicidepreventionwestyorkshire.co.uk) or the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership website).

You will contribute to the delivery of the other strands of the strategy, helping us achieve our zero suicide ambition for West Yorkshire. You will bring an understanding of health inequalities and the impact of the wider determinants of health, and the life course approach to this work.

You will work in a complex, and changing system-wide team of health and social care organisations, which includes NHS Trusts, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations, including people with lived experience.

You will be an integral part of the Improving Population Health Programme Team, reporting to the Suicide Prevention Project Manager and working alongside the Suicide Prevention Project Officer. You will develop strong working relationship with System and Leadership Team in the WY Health and Care Partnership.

You will be working in a fast-paced environment handling sensitive and upsetting information, and will work with team and employer to keep well.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Communications & Relationship Skills

1.1 Establish and proactively maintain constructive relationships and two-way communication with key internal and external stakeholders in order to devise and deliver a broad partnership-building strategy and plan to

Enable external organisations to prevent staff and volunteer suicide

Facilitate greater understanding of Suicide Prevention and the delivery of the WY Suicide Prevention Strategy

Encourage collaboration and shared learning

Celebrate achievements and good practice

Promote positive mental health, challenge stigma

Combat health inequalities through understanding the wider determinants of health

1.2 Develop and deliver suicide prevention training in a clear, engaging and high quality manner, gaining feedback from attendees and using it to continuously improve.

1.3 Communicate sensitive, complex and distressing information, and have the confidence to support people who have lived experience of suicide.

1.4 Support the use of a locally developed suicide prevention employer toolkit.

1.5 Support organisations across the partnership and beyond to develop and implement their own bespoke suicide prevention plans and strategies.

1.6 Develop existing relationships with the staff mental health and wellbeing hub, systems leadership team, People Board and other teams across the Integrated Care Board.

1.7 Engage and enthuse others, promoting a shared understanding of the wide variety of organisations, services and projects that support suicide prevention across West Yorkshire to enable the emerging WY HCP to learn from them, and for them to work more effectively together.

1.8 Convene and develop the existing staff suicide prevention network, enabling members who work right across the health and care system to lead and develop their suicide response strategies. Develop the network as a means to highlight key news, develop training, and share resources across health and care organisations.

1.9 Produce and promote a range of high quality training materials, documents and literature.

1.10 Work with people with lived experience of suicide bereavement and suicide attempts.

1.11 Foster the development of compassionate workplace cultures.

2 Analytical & Judgmental Skills

2.1 Ability to use own judgement in supporting organisations, partners and individuals in a highly sensitive and triggering subject matter.

2.2 Make autonomous decisions on the best approach to the delivery of staff suicide prevention work, or most appropriate action if e.g. the most appropriate marketing communications tactics for specific groups, including teams with lived experience of a colleague taking their own life.

2.3 To understand and interpret suicide data and facts and convey these to different audiences, including keeping appraised of Office National Statistics dataset regarding suicide and employment, as well as academic research and distilling into bitesize recommendations, and persuading and supporting systems colleagues to implement them.

2.4 To analyse and assess complex facts, including conflicting information, using appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, for example by conducting surveys and qualitative interviews about staff experience of suicide at work and/or at home and then making recommendations to system partners about how to change and/or improve workplace culture or practice.

2.5 Develop appropriate and secure data management practices by adhering to legislation, regulations and local policy including in the processing of sensitive data.

2.6 Ensure learning and feedback from the network feeds into the Suicide Prevention Oversight Group and Improving Population Health Boards of the WY HCP.

2.7 Appropriately escalate, discuss and triangulate with team and leaders.

3. Planning & Organisational Skills

3.1 Take ownership of self and others, including external/internal stakeholders in the management of staff suicide prevention work, being prepared to be held accountable for delivery.

3.2 Planning the programme of work across the fixed term period for this post, and working with colleagues to organise and deliver outcomes within the time frame.

3.3 Proactively collect and manage evidence of activities.

3.4 Manage time and prioritisation of a busy workload effectively, including delivering written and verbal reports to senior leaders and boards or networks.

3.5 Organise, capture, disseminate, and report key information to project stakeholders for further monitoring and evaluation.

3.6 Planning and advocating for the delivery of suicide prevention training.

3.7 Developing and delivering staff suicide prevention network.

3.8 Assist in the administration of the programme including arranging meetings, taking notes and minutes, preparing agendas.

3.9 Planning and organising a broad range of complex activities including meetings, workshops, training sessions, presentations and demonstrations to support the delivery of specific events such as mental health promotion campaigns, staff events or partners work.

3.10 Define and lead on key project plans, controls/milestones and the monitoring of these, ensuring that information/reporting is accurate and timely.

3.11 Lead specialist for own area, able to work to own initiative, on a specific project or area, deliver outcomes with a managed approach, providing timely updates to managers as required.

4. Patient/Client Care

4.1 Work alongside clinical partners and the suicide bereavement service to help organisations respond in the event of a staff or volunteer suicide.

5. Development

5.1 Develop staff and volunteer suicide prevention policy across a broad range of organisations and support others, often in more senior roles, to implement organisational change.

5.2 Enable and encourage others to suggest change and the likely impact of changing policies, strategies, and procedures.

5.3 Continue to roll out the award-winning staff check in campaign www.staffcheck-in.co.uk

5.4 Proactively link with Looking

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Experience of developing positive relationships new partners
• Experience of conveying complex and highly sensitive information
• Experienced facilitator and/or trainer, with the ability to enthuse others and excellent interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Experience of systems change work
• Experience of staff learning and development
• Experience of creating compassionate workplace cultures

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Understanding of suicide, suicide risk and protective factors, and suicide prevention
• A keen interest in tackling health inequalities
• Skilled in qualitative and quantitative data interpretation and analysis
• Computer literate with an ability to use the required systems/Microsoft IT office packages.
• Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily.
• Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to exercise independent judgement where appropriate and problem solve.
• Competent to work in flux, uncertainty and change

Desirable

• Understanding of The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Able to work with upsetting, sensitive and triggering subject matter
• Well developed understanding of own wellbeing and how to proactively manage this when dealing with very distressing subject
• Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and ensure a partner focused response
• Able to regulate behaviour even when challenged
• Enthusiastic about area of work and achieving results
• Has a responsive, solution focused approach to addressing issues and barriers

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Address

White Rose House

West Parade

Wakefield

WF1 1LT

Employer's website

http://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)