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Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) MNVP is the formal service user voice partner of BNSSG Trust maternity and neonatal services, supported by the NHS BNSSG Integrated Care Board (ICB). It is responsible for providing the voice of service users to inform the development of maternity and neonatal care across the region.

We support the Trusts and LMNS to ensure services are delivered in a kind, personal and safe way by making sure the service user voice is central to all decision making and quality oversight. This enables the ICB to fulfil its responsibilities in line with the three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services in England.

We work with key senior stakeholders across the Trusts and LMNS to champion coproduction, critical friendship, and meaningful involvement. We engage with people who have recently used local maternity and neonatal services, listening to their experiences and feedback. We share their insight with the ICB and the maternity and neonatal service providers it commissions, to make sure people’s opinions are at the heart of shaping local services.

BNSSG MNVP is hosted by Evolving Communities which specialises in delivering high quality engagement and support to help local people and organisations shape the way health and social care services are run in their communities.

You will be responsible for delivering the MNVP’s objectives. You will build strong working relationships with staff within the Trust’s and maternity services and use your influence to drive the delivery of highly effective, visible change that improves people’s experience of maternity care across the BNSSG area.

Collaborating closely with the MNVP Strategic Lead, Neonatal Lead and the Equity and Insights Lead, you will support and develop the day-to-day operation of the MNVP. You will also represent BNSSG MNVP at local maternity and neonatal meetings and events, providing independent challenge and evidence-based scrutiny drawn from insights gathered from parents, caregivers, and professionals involved in co-production and engagement projects. You will ensure we reach and work meaningfully with diverse communities across the BNSSG area, including groups who are marginalised.

You will have experience of using maternity services and a good understanding of the maternity and neonatal care system. You will be experienced in leading partnership working and collaborating with diverse stakeholders including professionals and people from different communities and backgrounds.

Your excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills will enable you to be a highly effective leader and a positive and confident manager, facilitator, and influencer.

With a commitment to inclusivity, you will create a team-based approach to problem-solving and decision-making, ensuring all voices are heard. You will be able to translate complex information into accessible, engaging discussions that support diverse involvement, and to communicate insightfully to a range of stakeholders.

Above all, you will be compassionate, collaborative, and committed to making a real difference in maternity and neonatal care.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that people from under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

For more information about this role, please download the role description and application form documents above.

In return we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous contributory pension scheme, and flexible working practices.

If you have any questions about this job, you are welcome to contact Donna Butland, Chief Operating Officer, MNVP & Service User Lead at Evolving Communities by email donna.butland@evolvingcommunities.co.uk

We are expanding our volunteer Board of Directors to support business strategy, growth and good governance, and to ensure we achieve quality and impact in all we do.

We are aiming to build on our success in health and social care and consultancy by developing our business into other areas where the voice of the public translates, for example, in care, housing or education.

Key responsibilities include:

• Constructively challenging and helping to develop business proposals and strategy.
• Overseeing the performance of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and monitoring the reporting of performance.
• Ensuring the integrity of financial information and that financial controls and systems of risk management are robust and defensible.

Our current Board is looking for people to complement their individual and collective skill set and who are interested in and supportive of public engagement and advocacy.

We are particularly keen to recruit new Board members with experience in:

• Business strategy, development, sales and commercial
• Tendering/procurement (working with government, other statutory funders, or private providers delivering public/social services)
• Legal and financial oversight
• IT and digital development.

Candidates will also demonstrate a range of knowledge and skills, such as:

• Strategic thinking and planning. Able to analyse complex information including statistical data, draw logical conclusions. and contribute to rational decision-making.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills. Able to liaise effectively with a wide a range of stakeholders and audiences.
• An interest and understanding in health, social care and wellbeing issues, policymaking and delivery, and how these may affect people.

This is a voluntary role with a term of three years, and the option to serve further three year terms if invited to do so by the Chair.

You will be required to attend six Board meetings a year (there is an option to join in person or virtually), and other ad hoc meetings such as training and away days.

Overall, the role requires a time commitment equivalent to approximately two days a month.

This is a volunteer role, though remuneration for expenses can be claimed.