Involvement Partner opportunities
Nottinghamshire Healthcare has an Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Strategy which sets out how we will ensure that we involve people, how we will listen to and act upon their views. It is really important that we understand what matters to people, what we are getting right and what needs to improve. You know what it’s like to receive care from our services (or you have supported someone who has). You can use your experiences to help us design, plan and change our services so that they deliver good care, to you, your loved ones and to future users of our services. By working together with you, we will make better decisions that lead to services that are more caring and better meet everyone’s needs.
How to Register your interest:
Below is a list of the current Involvement Partner opportunities that we have available for you to get involved in.
Details of how to register your interest is detailed in the role information next to ‘Get Involved!’ (Usually by clicking the link or by contacting the person detailed in the information by email or telephone).
Please note that if you are interested in more than one opportunity you only need to complete one form, however, please ensure you indicate on the form all of the opportunities you are interested in (The titles of roles are given in the descriptions).
If you have previously registered with us but are interested in a new role, please do not complete the registration form, contact us to discuss.
For further information about what is involved and how to become an Involvement Partner, click here for further information and how to register.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Collaboration with MH:2K – (Suitable for ages 14 – 25)
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) collaboration with MH:2K (Youth Led group) to improve how we listen, involve and communicate with young people. The group brings together young people (14-24 years) in a relaxed and informal way: come and be involved to:
- Be part of a wider group working towards shared aims of improving how we listen to Young People who use CAMHS, Involve Young people in improving services and look at how we can improve the way we communicate and reach out to YP.
- Helping us reach out to more young people and gather their views
- Share your experience (you are welcome to share your experience of using CAMHS services, but only if this feels like something you are happy to do).
- Inform staff working in the trust of the recommendations
- Working together to help implement the changes
- Build your confidence
- Learn the skills of working together with other young people and staff to improve care
- Meet other young people who have had similar experiences.
Title: CAMHS MH:2K Involvement Group
When/How we meet: The group currently meets face to face monthly/bi-monthly on a Saturday.
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: CAMHS MH:2K Involvement Group when asked).
CAMHS Participation Group – (Suitable for ages 14 – 25)
The CAMHS Participation Group brings together young people (14-24 years) in a relaxed and informal way to come and be involve to:
- Hear updates from YP involved in different projects.
- Hear about opportunities where you can get involved to co-design the development of CAMHS services (such as information development, service development).
- Plan awareness raising events such as Mental health weeks, Carers week, PRIDE, Black History month etc.
- Share your experience (you are welcome to share your experience of CAMHS services, but only if this feels like something you are happy to do).
- Build your confidence.
- Learn the skills of working together with other young people and staff to improve care.
- Meet other young people who have had similar experiences.
Title: CAMHS Participation Group
When/how we meet: The group currently meets virtually (over MS Teams) monthly on a Wednesday 4:30 -5.30pm.
Who runs the group: The group is chaired by Elizabeth Allcock and Ann Incerti from the CAMHS Involvement Team.
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: CAMHS Participation Group when asked)
Young Persons ‘Lets include, never exclude’ (LINE) Group – (Suitable for ages 14 – 25)
The Young person ‘Lets Include, Never Exclude’ (LINE) Equality and Diversity group is for young people (12-25 years) in a relaxed and informal way. The aims of the group is to:
- Look at all aspects of Equality and Diversity to ensure all young people are given equal opportunities and all young people feel welcome in CAMHS.
- Share your experience (you are welcome to share your experience of using CAMHS services, but only if this feels like something you are happy to do).
- build your confidence
- learn the skills of working together with other young people and staff to improve care
- meet other young people who have had similar experiences
Title: Young Person LINE E&D Group
When/how we meet: The group meets Tuesdays on MS teams 5:30 – 6:30 (Time tbc)
Who runs the group: The group is run by a CAMHS and Healthy family teams E&D champion.
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Young person LINE E&D Group when asked)
CAMHS Wellbeing Empowerment Hub – (Suitable for ages 14 – 25)
The Hub will offer a range of workshops aimed at people who are living with mental health challenges. Our workshops provide techniques that young people can take away with them and use in their daily lives to promote self-management and recovery, enabling personal development and the hope that taking control and self-management can bring.
This opportunity brings together young people (12-25 years) in a relaxed and informal way. Come and get involved to:
- Attend a training workshop in co-production
- Help us produce interesting workshops for young people
- Share your experience (you are welcome to share your experience of using CAMHS services, but only if this feels like something you are happy to do).
- build your confidence.
- learn the skills of working together with other young people and staff to improve care.
- meet other young people who have had similar experiences.
Title: CAMHS Wellbeing Empowerment Hub
When/how we meet: The group meets Wednesdays on MS teams 4:30 – 6pm
Who runs the group: The group is run by the Peer Development and the Wellbeing Empowerment Hub team
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: CAMHS Wellbeing Empowerment Hub when asked)
CAMHS MH:2K Transition group – (Suitable for ages 17 – 25)
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Adult Mental Health partnership / collaboration with MH:2K (Youth Led group) is to improve Transitions and experience of care aged 17-25.
The group brings together young people (17-25 years) in a relaxed and informal way. The main purpose of the group is to:
- Be part of a wider group working towards shared aims of improving the experience for young people transitioning from CAMHS to adult mental health (AMH) services, or coming into services a young adult.
- Helping us reach out to more young people and gather views and experiences
- Share your experience (you are welcome to share your experience of using CAMHS AMH services, but only if this feels like something you are happy to do).
- Inform staff in the trust of the recommendations
- Working all together to help implement the changes
- build your confidence
- learn the skills of working together with other young people and staff to improve care
- meet other young people who have had similar experiences
Title: CAMHS / AMH MH:2K Transitions group
When/how we meet: The group currently meets face to face monthly bi/monthly on a Saturday
Who runs the group: The group is run by MH:2K (youth group) in partnership with CAMHS and AMH involvement and the Trust involvement, experience and volunteering (IEV) team.
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: CAMHS Transition Group when asked)
Medical Education – Training doctors of the future
Do you have experience of older people’s mental health services and would be happy to share some of your experience with us either as patient or carer?
Medical Education at Nottinghamshire Healthcare currently provides training for hundreds of junior doctors and medical students. Part of how we do this is by co-producing patient and carer scenarios to aid the teaching.
We’re interested in hearing from you particularly if you have experienced severe depression in later life.
We are running two meetings so we can hear about people’s experiences, the good and the bad, and then develop the scenario to include the learning outcomes we have identified as a group.
Dates of meetings:
- 10.30am to 12pm Wednesday 2nd November 2022
- 10am to 12.30pm Friday 25th November 2022
Both meetings will be held at the Medical Education Unit at Highbury Hospital, however if you are unable to attend, please still contact us as we may be able to arrange alternative dates or facilitate the meeting this using MS Teams.
Title: Medical Education Involvement
Who runs the group: Jonathan Wright, Simulation Lead, Medical Education
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, contact Jonathan directly by emailing jonathan.wright@nottshc.nhs.uk or calling 0115 9934514
For this opportunity, patients and carers taking part all expenses will be reimbursed, and we will be offering an Involvement Payment for each meeting, which you are welcome to accept or decline.
Patient Information Group
The Patient Information Group began in 2018 and is a regular project group comprised of Involvement Partners and staff. The group meets regularly to work on various projects and requests to help transform information that is provided to patients, carers and staff into something understandable and useful.
Examples of what the group does:
- Review information that the Trust sends out to patients
- Compile patient leaflets
- Give feedback about Service changes
- Advise on the wording of important Trust announcements
Title: Patient Information Group
When/how we meet: The group currently meets virtually (over MS Teams). We meet every Tuesday starting at 10.30 until 12.
Who runs the group: The group is chaired by Lyndsy Jones, Volunteer Support Officer lyndsy.jones@nottshc.nhs.uk
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Patient Information Group when asked)
Crisis/Safety Planning
The Crisis/Safety Planning Group is looking at a Crisis/Safety Plan when you are a patient receiving care from our services. The main purpose of the group is to:
- Looking at the purpose and importance of a Crisis/Safety Plan
- How the plans can work better
- How staff can help to improve them
- Helping to design and co-produce training modules for staff
Title: Crisis Safety Planning Group
When/how we meet: The group currently meets virtually (over MS Teams). We every month; however there may be opportunities for the group to break into smaller working groups who will then meet more regularly.
Who runs the group: The group is chaired by Lyndsy Jones, Volunteer Support Officer lyndsy.jones@nottshc.nhs.uk
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Crisis/Safety Planning Group when asked)
Feedback Reviewer
This opportunity involves reviewing service user and carer feedback in Adult Mental Health Services.
Skills required:
- Be able to consider themes
- Read through six months of feedback
- Participate and contribute to discussions with staff about what the feedback is telling us
Title: Feedback Reviewer
When/how we meet: The group meets once every six months, however although the meetings take place every six months, there are a number of teams reviewed and so you could choose to attend up to six meetings within the month they are taking place.
Who runs the group: The group is co-hosted by Jo Horsley, jo.horsley@nottshc.nhs.uk and Jonathan Wright, jonathan.wright@nottshc.nhs.uk
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Feedback Reviewer when asked)
Story Shop
The Story Shop is for people with lived experience and carers to share their story with medical students to give them a more realistic understanding of mental health and the factors affecting it. This helps to contribute to their training and education as well as an opportunity to challenge some of the stigma around the topic of mental health. Story Shop Involvement Partners are asked to tell their story to small groups of students as part of their training and answer any questions from that group. The session is a structured part of the medical student’s educational course and has a direct influence on junior medical staff and professionals entering the healthcare field.
Title: Story Shop
When/how we meet: The session takes place over the course of one day, with a morning and afternoon session. There are five weeks between each Story Shop and there are five in total each year. You will be given support to prepare your story beforehand and there will be support on the day.
Who runs the group: Maxine Parr Involvement Support Officer (maxine.parr@nottshc.nhs.uk) and Lyndsy Jones, Involvement Project Lead (lyndsy.jones@nottshc.nhs.uk).
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Story Shop when asked)
Older People’s Mental Health Involvement Group
The groups purpose is to provide some lived experience to discussions about the Older People’s Mental Health Services (MHSOP). This could be experience of yourself or a friend or family member.
The aim of the meetings are to:
- Bring service user and carer voice into decision making in Mental Health Services for Older People.
Skills required:
- Participate in discussions
- Actively listen and have the ability to share personal experiences when relevant.
Title: Member of Older People’s Mental Health Improvement Group
How/When we meet: Once a month, currrently online.
Who runs the group: The group is co-chaired hosted by Sharon Howe, Kylie Galloway and Lyndsy Jones. For further information contact lyndsy.jones@nottshc.nhs.uk
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Member of MHSOP Health Involvement Group when asked).
Interviews
At Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, we value the voice of service users and carers / family members and friends in the recruitment of staff.
You will receive some basic instructions on how the recruitment process works within the Trust.
Skills required:
- Be confident in speaking and asking questions to candidates in an interview panel setting (this can be face to face or via MS Teams)
- Be able to create open, value and recovery based questions
- Understand the importance of confidentiality, inclusivity and equal opportunity.
You will receive some basic instructions on how the recruitment process works within the Trust.
Title: Interview Panel
How/When: Interview panels can happen face to face or via MS Teams. You will be contacted when we have been asked to provide someone on a panel with relevant dates/times to see if you are available.
For more information please contact Lyndsy Jones – lyndsy.jones@nottshc.nhs.uk
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Interview Panel when asked).
Carer’s Connect Network
The Carers Connect Network is a forum for carers, families, friends, staff and partnership organisations who work with carers. We’re open to new carers getting involved.
Aims of the group:
- to influence how we work together
- add your voice and share good practice or just hear the latest news.
- To help keep carers up to date during national restrictions.
For more information, see our dedicated Carer’s Connect Network page.
Title: Carer’s Connect Network
How/When: Bi-monthly using Microsoft Teams.
Get Involved! If you would like to join this group as an Involvement Partner, please register here (entering the title: Carer’s Connect Network when asked).
Patient and Public Involvement with the Institute of Mental Health
The Institute of Mental Health is a partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Nottingham.
The Institute brings together:
- healthcare staff
- academics
- Administration and support
to lead mental health research designed to improve diagnosis, treatment, and care.
The Institute was founded in 2006 with a goal of bringing research knowledge and evidence into the NHS.
Patient and public involvement (PPI) has always added value and improvement to our research, teaching, conferences, publications and the delivery of high-quality, evidenced-informed care. People have become involved with the Institute through both formal and informal opportunities.
We have Public Contributors involved in all aspects of our work:
- Delivering conference presentations to disseminate the findings of the research
- Co-authoring academic papers
- Public Contributors as named co-applicants within funding applications
- Public Contributors sitting on project management groups
- Public Contributors sitting on the recruitment and selection panels that appoints staff to work within the Institute
- Conducting data collection interviews with research participants
- Facilitating focus groups and collaborative working on data analysis
We have established an advisory group to oversee patient and public involvement within the Institute of Mental Health alongside research and project specific groups.
The Public Advisory Group constitution can be found on the Institute of Mental Health website https://institutemh.org.uk/images/PPI_Constitution_Oct_21.pdf and current opportunities to get involved in projects and groups can be found here https://www.institutemh.org.uk/involvement/opportunities-in-public-and-patient-involvement
For further information, visit Involvement at the Institute of Mental Health