What is MEAM
MEAM is a nationally recognised approach that supports adults facing multiple disadvantage such as homelessness, mental ill health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, offending behaviour, and social exclusion. The MEAM approach promotes person-centred, trauma-informed and strengths-based practice, bringing services together to provide coordinated support around the individual rather than expecting them to navigate multiple systems alone.
Following a successful bid to become part of the Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) network in October 2024, a MEAM operational partnership was formed in Thanet across statutory, voluntary and lived experience organisations including the Kent Lived Experience Recovery Organisation Reach Out and Recover (ROAR). The partnership is currently developing an operational MEAM model to understanding the lived experience of people facing multiple disadvantage in Thanet that through the Thanet Health Alliance can inform strategic change and reduce inequalities. The hope is that the learning from Thanet MEAM will support system change across Kent.
Thanet Health CIC has been commissioned to host and develop the MEAM Coordinator role.
Overview
Are you passionate about driving real system change, challenging inequalities, and working alongside people with lived experience to improve services for those facing multiple disadvantage?
If so, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of support in Thanet. Kent has been accepted as a new Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) approach area, with Thanet chosen as the pilot site. MEAM works with local areas to design and deliver better coordinated services for people experiencing multiple disadvantage, including homelessness, substance use, contact with the criminal justice system, and mental health challenges.
As the MEAM Coordinator for Thanet, you will lead the coordination of this innovative approach - working across health, social care, housing, criminal justice, and the voluntary sector to break down barriers, influence change, and co-produce new ways of working with people who know the system best: those who have lived it.
The MEAM Coordinator will engage with all relevant bodies and build close working relationships across sectors. Hence, excellent relationship building and partnership working is essential for this role.
Responsibilities
As the MEAM Coordinator, you will:
- Lead the Thanet MEAM pilot, building strong relationships across public, voluntary, and community sectors.
- Co-produce service solutions with people who have lived experience of multiple disadvantage.
- Coordinate multi-agency support for individuals in the first Thanet MEAM cohort using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach.
- Identify and escalate barriers within the system that prevent equitable access to services.
- Gather and analyse data to evidence impact, inform commissioning, and influence policy.
- Facilitate learning and reflective spaces for frontline teams to embed MEAM principles.
- Promote system change by sharing insights and best practice across Kent.
Experience
- Significant experience of working directly with individuals with complex life experiences.
- Proven ability to coordinate and deliver personalised case management in a multi-agency setting.
- Experience facilitating reflective practice or professional learning.
- Demonstrable experience of negotiating and influencing at both operational and strategic levels.
- Experience in collecting, analysing, and reporting on quantitative and qualitative data.
- Experience in co-production with people with lived / living experience.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
