Dskww//, Regional Service Engagement Lead

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Name: Mike Healy

Email: mike.healy@hse.ie

Telephone: 086 4159245

Details of Service:

As part of the new children’s hospital, there will be a new 20 bed Child and Young Person Mental Health inpatient unit. This new Mental Health Unit at NCH will support the creation of an ecosystem for delivering safe and effective care within CYPMHS (Child and Young Person Mental Health Services) and will help ensure that mental health patients will have access, as required, to subspecialities within CHI, thereby delivering care to the right patients, at the right time, in the right place.

The commissioning programme is moving at pace and requires appropriate and sufficient clinical input from a Mental Health perspective to ensure the new unit is a fit for purpose care environment, digitally enabled in line with the wider hospital and with safe standards of work, in line with regulation.

Regional Service Engagement Lead (CYP Collaboration & Recovery) position is required to provide the required input as part of the design of the new Child and Young Person Mental Health (CYPMH) inpatient unit and to keep pace with wider commissioning timelines. They will also have a role for Service Engagement throughout Child and Young Person Mental Health Services in the HSE Dublin Midlands Region.

Service Engagement Leads are individuals with their own lived or supporter experience in mental health, employed by the organisation to be part of the management of services. They bring their unique expertise deriving from their “lived experience” of mental health challenges to the management and improvement function. Their value includes leading on the strategic development of services that promote recovery orientation in line with ‘Sharing the Vision’, Paediatric Model of Care and through initiatives such as Peer support and Recovery Education. Service Engagement Leads also lead on stakeholder engagement particularly between Children, Young People, Family, Guardians Carers and Service providers.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Lead service user, family, and carer engagement initiatives across CYP mental health services within Child and Young Person Mental Health Services.

• Ensure a recovery-oriented approach is integrated into service design and delivery.

• Support CYP Mental Health services in developing and delivering cost-saving and service improvement projects using recognised methodology.

• Drive service improvement and cultural change initiatives to enhance the quality of care and efficiency of services.

• Track and report project performance in terms of finance, quality, patient centred outcomes and key milestones.

Provide leadership in service improvement, change management and engagement strategies from the position of Collaboration and Recover Lead across CYP Mental Health Services.