Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Maudsley Hospital Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 21/07/2025 23:59
Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
The boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark have high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. The postholder will work to engage with the local service user and carers in their local communities to ensure as wide a range of involvement as possible.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead on patient and public involvement within adult services in two Operations Directorates. They will develop effective service user and carer involvement in the work of the Directorates, enact the Trust Involvement and Engagement strategy and develop and implement Directorate strategies that foster service user and carer involvement and engagement. This will be supported through:
1. Leading on the development of effective action plans to meet relevant CQUINs targets, NHSE requirements and local contracts and Quality and Information requirements
2. Working with operational Deputy Directors, Medical Leads, Heads of Nursing and Quality and Professional Heads to support embedding of engagement of people who use our services as part of business as usual
3. Working in conjunction with the Equality and Diversity lead to deliver the Directorates’ Equality Delivery Scheme action plan and to deputise as needed
4. Developing cross cutting involvement opportunities with Kings Health Partners (KHP) acute care colleagues
5. Leading on maintaining good quality communication and engagement with all relevant stakeholders/ partners across geographical areas served by the Directorates.
6. Leading on communication and information provision.
7. Providing Directorate input to local mental health partnership forums, Local Authority Overview and Scrutiny and Healthwatch as required.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
· Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
· Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
· Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as
mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
· Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
· Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
· NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. Other benefits include:
· Counselling services
· Wellbeing events
· Long service awards
· Cycle to work scheme
· Season ticket loan
· Childcare vouchers
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
* Educated to masters standard or equivalent
Experience
* Experience of developing Involvement and Engagement or Equality and diversity strategies
* Senior clinical and/or managerial experience which demonstrates the ability to initiate, develop and implement significant programmes of work without close supervision
* Experience of managing resource, in particular budgetary responsibilities
* Experience of service development/project management in the NHS in relation to service user involvement or equality and diversity
* Experience of working with children and young people in statutory and/or voluntary services
* Experience of working in an inner city, multicultural environment
Skills
* Ability to think strategically, to plan, implement and review
* Sound understanding of current management arrangements of NHS
* Ability to analyse and draw conclusions from sometimes complex data and present it clearly to a wider audience
* Ability to work with minimum supervision and ability to set priorities in line with local and national priorities
* Knowledge and experience of Gender diversity
Other
* Computer literate and competent in the use of Microsoft suite
* Excellent numerical skills
* Lived, direct or indirect experience of mental health problems
* Strong planning and organisational skills
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
* That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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