Creative Health Lead

Role description

Job summary

Working with colleagues across the system, the Creative Health Lead is responsible for leading the development, co-ordination and delivery of the creative health programme including public consultation and co-production, for a range of neighbourhood health services.

To lead the development and delivery of creative health and engagement strategies to support the delivery of neighbourhood health initiatives including prevention, personalised care and social prescribing programmes.

To work strategically and identify interoperability between workstreams and change programmes to maximise reach and potential of creative health strategies.

Proactively and independently develop, implement and evaluate programme creative health and engagement activity and lead creative health change management strategies.

To develop relationships with external stakeholders to ensure creative health strategies are responsive to the needs of the system and communities.

To independently develop creative health delivery and partnership channels and provide specialist advice to programme teams and other stakeholders, acting as creative health specialist at times of change when effective engagement is crucial.

Working with service users and communities to co-produce creative health projects, drawing on research and expert by experience networks to develop effective creative health and engagement strategies.

Main duties of the job

Lead a system wide creative health strategy and 24 month delivery plan, with clear governance, priorities, outcomes and a sustainability plan.

Map current creative health provision, partners, evidence, need and gaps, and establish a practical mechanism for keeping this intelligence current.

Work with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams to include creative health within neighbourhood plans, pathway development and community based support.

Use population health information, evidence and community insight to focus activity on people and places most affected by health inequalities, including rural, coastal, island and deprived communities.

Build durable relationships across the NHS, local government, primary care, social care, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, cultural organisations, universities and communities.

Support co production with people who use services, carers and communities, including people whose voices are less often heard.

Advise commissioners and partners, develop investment cases and funding bids, and identify sustainable resources for creative health activity.

Expand the contribution of creative health to social prescribing, personalised care and priority areas such as mental health, children and young people, frailty, long term conditions and prevention.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.