Co Production Lead – Voices Action Change (VAC)

Location
Cardiff (Caerdydd)
Salary
£31,827 - £33,948
Posted
11 Oct 2024
Closes
03 Nov 2024
Role
Supervisor
Contract type
Full time

Key Duties and Responsibilities

  • To coordinate the Voices Action Change project:
  • Direct and support the VAC peer mentor to recruit and train VAC representatives.
  • Reporting back queries, areas of concern, feedback and suggestions to service leads, governing bodies and strategic planning working groups.
  • Contribute to the successful delivery of strategic local and regional development plans enabling co-production and service user engagement in Cardiff and the Vale.

 

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

General Responsibilities

  • Compliance and Information Management
  • Provide leadership and direction for a team of lived experience representatives to ensure service delivery
  • Manage, motivate and lead the VAC team, providing supervision to enable them to undertake their responsibilities, using coaching as a tool for the Peer mentors and Representatives development
  • Oversee and ensure appropriate risk assessment and risk management of activities, buildings and those accessing the project.
  • Informing, inspiring and encouraging people of the importance of service user involvement and meaningful co-production
  • Recruiting, training, supporting and placing representatives
  • Coproduce training and support packages for representatives
  • Scoping, mapping and creating partnerships for outreach and engagement.
  • Providing leadership to ensure equitable engagement with vulnerable groups including homelessness, and street-based lifestyles.
  • Develop strategic links within service delivery and community groups to reach hidden populations. such as those with lower threshold needs, childcare issues or cultural groups
  • Creating regular opportunities and mechanisms for service users to have a voice and contribute to the design, delivery and monitoring of substance use services (CAVDAS, CAU, BPPS etc.)
  • Work with the substance users, representatives and partners to inspire, raise awareness, train and facilitate Service user involvement in their regular duties.
  • Work in partnership with Cardiff APB to implement and review service user involvement and coproduction within the CAVDAS alliance
  • Support and mentor a group of specialist service user voices including those with lived experience of Criminal Justice Systems, those serving sentences at HMP Cardiff, OST, Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Stimulants, Tier 4, family & Carers and New Psychoactive Substances
  • Review service user involvement across CAVDAS and implement effective communication channels with groups that are currently operating
  • Facilitate service self-audit against the SUI audit form within the Service User Involvement Strategy
  • Embed service user involvement across substance use services in Cardiff and the Vale in line with the principles of the SUI strategy
  • Build on existing structures across the area and develop structures, where they are limited/minimal
  • Support the coordination of national issues through communication, forums and meetings
  • Support the activity of the APB and complete specific pieces of work and activities