Job Description

Since 2020 the responsibility for the commissioning of Adult Secure Care mental health, learning disability and autism services has transferred from NHS England (NHSE) Specialised Commissioning to Provider Collaboratives (PCs).



Fifteen PC's nationally coordinate and deliver care for adult patients requiring low and medium secure care. The East Midlands area PC is called IMPACT.



IMPACT is a partnership of 9 NHS and independent sector providers and is led by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as the Lead Provider.

The other organisations in the collaborative are:

Cygnet Healthcare



Derbyshire Healthcare NHS FT



Elysium Healthcare, Leicestershire Partnerships NHS Trust



Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust



Lincolnshire Partnerships NHS FT



Northamptonshire NHS FT



Priory Healthcare



St Andrews Healthcare



In order to preserve integrity and avoid conflicts of interest, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS FT as the Lead Provider developed an arms-length commissioning and clinical oversight function (the IMPACT commissioning hub). IMPACT's commissioning hub's role involves understanding the local population and empowering local clinicians and Experts by Experience to design improved pathways of care. Through the Lead Provider arrangements IMPACT also sub-contracts other providers e.g. to support discharges from secure care, assure the quality of services and lead the necessary reporting regionally and nationally to NHS England.



The post holder will implement the delivery of the Coproduction Strategy across the IMPACT Provider Collaborative providers and its wider stakeholders and will coordinate and project manage activities that build partnerships between service users, carers and service providers to bring about transformative changes to adult secure services, organisational culture and individual lives.



The postholder will ensure coproduction is informing all stages of our commissioning cycle and outcomes-based commissioning strategies with patients/service users and carers views being at the heart of what we do.



The post holder will s upport the IMPACT Lead for Improvement, Managing Director and Clinical Lead in specific projects across the coproduction and communications strategies.



Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is 26.40 (standard) or 54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.



You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of 16 per year applies.



#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.



We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.



We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.



The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.



The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.



To lead on the delivery of IMPACT's coproduction strategy across the Collaborative.



To strengthen a network across the Provider Collaborative partners and wider partners to facilitate the implementation of coproduction activities.



To co-ordinate work with the providers to ensure service users and carers can plan, review, shape and contribute to the IMPACT commissioning strategy, values and objectives.



To lead on supporting, advising and guiding providers to collaborate with each other to coproduce and involve service users and carers.



To liaise with all providers' communications leads to coproduce relevant content and messaging on collaborative work/projects/good practice.



To produce regular written reports on the evidenced development of coproduction and its impact on our commissioning decisions to relevant partnership working groups and boards.



To be a confident and articulate presenter at formal meetings, committees, large scale events and able to tailor delivery to different audiences taking into account any communication barriers which may hinder this process when dealing with difficult or complex issues.



To plan and organise events and meetings that engage and inspire service users, carers, members, staff and other organisations to work in partnership to change services, culture and lives.



To be confident and articulate engaging and coproducing with all service users of secure care services.



To communicate and produce information in a variety of formats and ways that are accessible, engaging and inspiring. Communicate the aims, plans, opportunities and achievements of involvement. This will include presentations, articles, reports, analysis/presentation of data and the use of social media.



To support the development of outcome measures and targets for the activity the post is responsible for.



To plan and ensure the effective implementation of coproduction champions across the collaborative and the necessary support, training and personal development of volunteers to enable them to play an effective role in involvement and through this take up training, education and employment opportunities.



Keep accurate record keeping of all activity with people who use services and family members.



Comply with the Trust and Provider Collaborative's relevant code of conduct, standards of professional practice and values.



Fully participate in annual appraisal and appraisal reviews.



If you would like to know more and to speak to a member of our team, please contact Emma Gray - emma.gray@nottshc.nhs.uk

Key dates:

Advertising:

Wednesday 13 August - Tuesday 16 September

Webinar:

Wednesday 10 September 2025

Closing Date:

Midnight Tuesday 16 September 2025

Shortlisting Date:

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Interview Date:

Wednesday 24 September 2025