Community Engagement Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our high-quality mental health services in Kent and Medway. We want to ensure that our services are designed for, and delivered to, the people who need them.

We believe that everyone has the right to a meaningful, personalised service that helps them to overcome the challenges they face. We see lived experience as a valuable asset that will help us make this a reality.

This is a new role within our Talking Therapies team which will lead our service user engagement and co-production strategy to put service users at the heart of the design of our services. The role will initially focus on these areas:

• Increasing the number of people who access our service by leading our outreach work focused on people who experience health inequalities.
• Embedding a coproduction approach across Talking Therapies services in Kent and Medway.
• Recruitment of people with lived experience to build our volunteer and peer support networks.
• Develop an approach to sharing lived experience with an aim of improving client experience and successfully completing treatment.

Diversity Statement

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.

As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

Should you be successful in your application, you will be required to provide 3 years' worth of references and where applicable, will need to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

We want you to love coming to work, and feeling fulfilled and valued, that's why we focus on the things that are important to you. You will be part of a supportive team of highly experienced practitioners and leaders, who are passionate about making a difference to people's lives.

These are a few of the great benefits that we offer, to find out more, please click here for the candidate pack.

• 28 days holiday plus a bank holiday allowance (pro rata for part time staff)
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• 1 additional day of annual leave for 5 years service
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You's pension scheme
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing

We are looking for:

A candidate that has a good understanding of managing a diverse team; developing and implementing service user involvement and coproduction strategies; has excellent relationship-building skills and is experienced in building a volunteer workforce.

You will be an advocate of the voice of our service users, and able to bring constructive challenge to the mental health leadership teams, to ensure that service user needs are front and centre of what we do.