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Gloucestershire MNVP is the formal partner of Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Gloucestershire Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS), responsible for providing the voice of service users to inform the development of maternity and neonatal care across the county.

We support the 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 LMNS to champion co-production, 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 Integrated Care System and the maternity and neonatal service providers it commissions, to make sure people’s opinions are at the heart of shaping local services.

Gloucestershire 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.

Gloucestershire MNVP is seeking a passionate and enthusiastic Engagement and Volunteer Officer to support and develop our community engagement work.

In this role, you will set up and attend events, enhance our social media presence and recruit volunteers. You will work on community engagement projects, collaborating with charities and volunteers to gather valuable feedback and information and understand barriers to accessing services. You will work closely with the Gloucestershire MNVP Leads to analyse the feedback and insights from your engagement work and help communicate findings at system meetings and in the community.

You may have lived experience of using maternity and neonatal services (although this is not essential), and you will be friendly and approachable, with great communication skills. You will have experience of working with volunteers and engaging with a diverse range of people and have an excellent understanding of equality and inclusion. You will be well organised with experience of working in a customer focused service, engagement techniques including events, and administration.

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 Stef Scott, Gloucestershire MNVP Senior Lead – email stefanie@gloucestershiremnvp.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.