Engagement and Equalities Practitioner - MHST

Compass is delighted to provide Mental Health Support Teams in education settings across North-West Birmingham (Handsworth, Lozells, Aston, Ladywood, Erdington) serving the children, young people and families and communities.

Do you have the passion and drive to embed evidence-based co-production practices across the teams with Children, Young People (CYP) and parents/carers to co-develop engagement protocols, materials, and ways of working to improve access and service experience for all populations including at risk CYP.

This role is a real opportunity to help shape the services we provide and to launch your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.

The job purpose is focused on engaging directly with CYP and supporting locality-based teams to engage with all populations’ representative of the local community and as a subject expert support teams to continuously strengthen co-production and engagement processes.

You will establish and support CYPF representation at all levels of the service such as connecting with youth councils, mental health ambassadors, user-led groups, and networks. Co-ordinating the recruitment of CYP and parent/carer peer ‘champions’ will be a significant part of the role as will facilitating CYP and parents & carers representation on MHST Strategic & Locality steering groups and within the service’s shadow leadership team.

You will have to demonstrate in your application that you have the ability to work creatively with Children and Young People, using a flexible and adaptive style to engage people from all of our local communities. Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of models of peer participation and health promotion is highly desirable.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days’ holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual performance / salary review

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