Project Manager Coordinator Role

Project Manager – Volunteer Innovators Programme

JOB PURPOSE
Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) have recently been awarded a grant from Helpforce. C&I were one of ten trusts chosen, from 115 expressions of interest, for their Volunteer Innovators Programme. In partnership with NHS England, Helpforce are working with NHS hospital trusts to help fund and transform volunteering in and around hospital settings. To develop and scale volunteer services which can bring huge benefits to staff, patients, volunteers, and our local communities. This Project Manager post will play a key role in supporting, facilitating, monitoring and evaluating the progress of our innovation.

JOB SUMMARY
The post holder will be required to manage our volunteer innovators programme project. Our chosen innovation is our Restraint Debrief volunteer role.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines [NG10] Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings and [CG136] Service user experience in adult mental health:
improving the experience of care for people using adult NHS mental health services state that debriefings should occur after the use of a restrictive intervention to manage aggression in inpatient psychiatric settings. Restrictive interventions include seclusion, manual restraint and rapid tranquilisation. The debriefings allow issues of physical harm and the emotional impact on service users (SU’s) or staff following a restrictive intervention to be addressed and on-going risks to be identified and managed. We created the Restraint Debrief volunteer role to increase the take up of patient debriefs by providing volunteers, independent to the incident, to facilitate
these.
The project aims to scale up this role so that all our patients who experience a restrictive intervention are offered the opportunity of a debrief session with our volunteers. It also aims to collect data and learning to improve the offer to patients and staff; and additionally aims to ensure that any learning obtained from this project is made transferable to other NHS services.

The post holder will champion the project and act as lead specialist for the project.

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