Community Engagement Lead

Are you passionate about making sure local people have a real say in the health services that shape their lives? We are looking for a Community Engagement Lead to join our Involvement and Community Engagement team and lead our community engagement work in Greenwich, as part of the development of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs). This is a new 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week) post, offered as a 12-month fixed term contract or secondment. You will build trusted relationships with local communities, voluntary and faith organisations and INT partners, and make sure the voices of people who experience the greatest health inequalities help shape how neighbourhood services are planned and delivered.,

• Lead community engagement for the Greenwich INT programme, in line with the Trust's Community Engagement Strategy
• Map communities, groups and community assets across Greenwich neighbourhoods, and reach groups who are not currently heard by services
• Plan and run listening events, focus groups, workshops and outreach sessions in community and faith venues
• Build strong working relationships with VCSE organisations, faith groups, community leaders, Healthwatch Greenwich and the Royal Borough of Greenwich
• Analyse what communities tell us and turn it into clear findings, recommendations and actions
• Report back to communities on what has changed as a result of their feedback
• Represent the team at Greenwich INT and neighbourhood meetings
  
  Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure
unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care