Patient and Public Engagement Ambassador (PPEA)

Job Overview

We are looking to recruit a Patient and Public Engagement Ambassador (PPEA) to join the children and adolescent mental health research team (COMIC), working within the R&D department of Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust. This is an important role which will help us to run an established Young Persons Advisory Network (YPAN). This role will ensure children and young people’s (CYP) experience of participating in research is clear and simple, allowing as many service users as possible the opportunity to take part in research and get involved in research promotion within the Trust. The successful candidate will work closely with the R&D team to support research at all stages from study design, funding applications to recruitment of CYP, carers and staff and making results widely known.

Main duties of the job

Communicating with CYP, carers and schools. Coordinating engagement activities – newsletters, website content. Promoting COMIC and service user involvement in research. Evaluate success of YPAG by requesting feedback from attendees. Organise and run engagement events. Promote research projects.

This post is only open to internal applicants from LYPFT only.

Working for our organisation

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.

We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.

As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible for liaising with CYP and their carers and schools to recruit participants to the YPAN, and will act as a point of contact for these stakeholders within the COMIC team. They will also be responsible for engagement activities such as writing newsletters, updating website content, contributing to the PPI strategy of the COMIC team. They will organise and run research events, YPAN meetings and public engagement events. They will promote diversity in research by engaging with underrepresented groups within local communities. They will work with other Trusts and YPAG groups to broaden the scope of the COMIC YPAN. There will be requirement for flexibility to work evenings and weekends on occasion.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Understanding of service user involvement and co-production in practice
• Understanding of the importance of research
  
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in planning and managing workload
• Experience in non-verbal and verbal communication