DML612025 Grade VII, Regional Service Engagement Lead (Child and Young Person [CYP] Collaboration & Recovery)

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Mike Healy - Director of Nursing / Clinical Project Lead Mental Health Services IHA DSCW

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Emma Ball - Assistant Director of Nursing / Digital Health Lead Mental Health Services IHA DSCW

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As part of the new childrens 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.

The HSE Dublin and Midlands serves a population of circaproviding health and social care services to communities living within Dublin West Dublin South-West Dublin South City Laois Longford Offaly Kildare West Wicklow and Westmeath. Currently approximately 30k staff work within the HSE Dublin and Midlands Region providing key health and social care services with a budget of 3 billion.

The region has 4 Integrated Health Areas serving a population of around 300000 and take account of local geographies population size needs and services. The IHA areas are HSE Dublin South City and West HSE Dublin South West HSE Kildare and West Wicklow and HSE Midlands and the Integrated Healthcare Managers are in post since October 2024. IHAs bring together both acute and community services as well as other non-HSE providers and are crucial to supporting and enabling integrated care. Within the 4 Integrated Health Areas there are 9 acute hospital (model 4s and 3s mix of statutory and voluntary providers) delivering a full range of acute hospital women and childrens services in addition to specialised radiation and oncology care. There are also 6 integrated care hubs/csts and 20 Community Health Networks who together will serve the population health needs of our area.

The reform programme for HSE Dublin and Midlands provides an opportunity to shape the future of health and social care in a rapidly changing environment and to continue to implement safer better health care through integrated services. Health Regions will be the primary service coordination and delivery units for the vast majority of health and social care services provided across Ireland. They will provide the governance and organisational arrangements to enable planning management and delivery of care for people and for communities across their region.