EMPC Involvement & Co Production Lead

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The closing date is 02 March 2026

Are you passionate about Co-production and value lived experience in shaping services? An exciting opportunity has arisen within the East Midlands Provider Collaboratives (EMPC) for Specialist Mental Health Services for Children and Young People, Perinatal and Adult Eating Disorders.

Working across the East Midlands in partnership in partnership with six NHS Trusts, you will lead the development of the EMPC Co-production strategy that drives inclusive and meaningful partnership with stakeholders, patients and their families.

The post holder will draw on their own experience of using services to engage with service users to gain an understanding of their experiences to shape and influence care across mental health services.

• Lead in the development and implementation of partnership working with people with lived experience, parents/carers and stakeholder to deliver the broad involvement and co-production agenda aligned with Trust and System priorities
• Implementing creative and innovative approaches to encourage engagement from diverse groups
• Creating systems and processes that support safe, effective and meaningful service user and carer involvement
• Provide strong and effective leadership for involvement and co production

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person‑centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

This innovative post focuses on the need to bring strong leadership to involvement, participation and co production across the three East Midlands Provider Collaboratives (EMPC) pathways for Children, Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Perinatal and Adult Eating Disorders (AED). The partners within the EMPC are:
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The aim of this role is to develop, lead and embed a co‑production strategy that improves outcomes, experience and insight for service users, families and carers through genuine partnership working. The post holder will lead the development and implementation of an EMPC Involvement and Coproduction Strategy for CAMHS, Perinatal and AED pathways, aligned with NHFT and wider system strategies.

The role will interact with the co‑production and involvement arrangements within the Lead Providers for the three Provider Collaboratives. As the Involvement and Co‑production Lead, you will be working in partnership with people with lived experience, EMPC Partners, Lead Providers, Family Ambassadors, already established Perinatal and CAMHS lived experience advisory/strategic groups, local Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and NHSE to ensure inclusive coproduction activity spanning across specialised inpatient and enhanced community service provision.

The role will be line managed by the EMPC Quality and Governance Lead. The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. As this is a new role within EMPC, the job description and person

• Lived experience of accessing and /or caring for someone within Mental Health Services and used the lived experience to promote positive…