Are you passionate about mental health research and the importance of public involvement? If so, here’s an opportunity to put this interest into practice!
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to finding better ways to care for service users, carers and staff. We are looking to recruit a Patient Research Ambassador who will play an important role in ensuring that a service user and carer voice is reflected in all stages of research from the planning stage to the sharing of study findings.
You will work alongside existing service user and carer groups within the Trust, as well as with third sector organisations.
Manage and chair the Trust’s service user and carer research group (Help from Experts by Experience for Researchers)
Communicate and liaise with a wide range of people i.e. service users and staff, external agencies about the role of research in mental healthcare.
Help to provide the service user perspective in all aspects of research.
Attend Trust wide and external meetings to promote research and share the service user perspective.
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.
The candidate will act as the main point of contact for service user and carer involvement in adult mental health research. They will chair and manage the Help from Experts by Experience for Researchers. Attendance at various internal and external meetings and events will be part of this role e.g. the Trust’s Service User Network. They will help to promote diversity in research by engaging with underrepresented groups within local communities. They will raise the profile of service user involvement in research e.g. by delivering training or sharing best practice. There may be a requirement for flexibility to work evenings and weekends on occasion

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