Co Production Lead – Voices Action Change (VAC)
- Recruiter
- Recovery Cymru Community
- 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