Are you passionate about amplifying the voices of children, young people, and families?
We're looking for a dynamic and creative Participation Facilitator to lead and grow meaningful involvement across our Community and Specialist CAMHS services. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape how services are designed, delivered, and improved-ensuring that lived experience sits at the heart of everything we do.
You will play a key role in embedding a strong culture of participation, working alongside children, young people, parents/carers, clinicians, and system partners to co-produce services that truly meet people's needs.
We're looking for someone who is:
- Passionate about co-production and meaningful participation
- An excellent communicator, able to engage with a wide range of people
- Skilled in facilitation, relationship-building, and collaboration
- Confident working independently and using initiative
- Organised, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities.
In this role, you will:
- Lead participation and engagement activities that are creative, inclusive, and meaningful for children, young people, and families.
- Deliver co-production approaches, ensuring service users have real influence on service design and improvement.
- Support and grow participation networks, connecting communities, professionals, and stakeholders.
- Facilitate youth and parent/carer voice programmes, including recruitment, training, and ongoing support for those who get involved.
- Gather and communicate insights, ensuring feedback leads to measurable change and service improvement.
- Promote participation across CAMHS, supporting teams to embed best practice in their work.
- Develop reports, presentations, and events to showcase impact and share learning.
You'll also ensure all engagement work is safe, ethical, meaningful and inclusive.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Degree level qualification or relevant equivalent experience.
Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
