Current Opportunities

Belfast Trust has a range of opportunities to get involved. Check out the current opportunities below. Before starting your involvement journey, you may also wish to join the Involvement Network to hear about opportunities and attend SCOPE training which provides an overview of the Trust and an introduction to getting involved.

Current opportunities:

• Being Open Involvement Group

  Help Shape a Culture of Openness in Health and Social Care

  Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is inviting service users and carers to join our new Being Open Involvement Group. This is your chance to make a real difference by helping us embed openness, fairness, and learning across our organisation. Working alongside staff, you’ll influence how we communicate, learn from experiences, and build trust in the care we provide. If you’re passionate about improving services and ensuring every voice is heard, we’d love you to get involved!

  Please click the link below to view the role description for this opportunity:

  Being Open Involvement Group Role Description

  To express an interest in joining the group please complete this short online registration form by Monday 8^th December 2025:

  Being Open Involvement Group on-line registration form

  If you would like support to complete this form or require it in a different language, please contact the PPI team at:

  Email: PPI@belfasttrust.hscni.net

  Tel: 02895044126

  Further information regarding involvement is available on the Trust website here: How to get involved | Belfast Health & Social Care Trust website

• Involvement opportunity 2025/26 in older peoples’ services in Belfast Trust

  Involvement opportunity 2025/26 in older peoples’ services in Belfast Trust

  Join us to shape and implement the Belfast Trust Carers Strategy in older people’s services. Working with staff from across the Trust, bring your experience of being a carer and receiving carer services, to inform how we support carers throughout our older peoples’ services.

  Why get involved?
  Your voice matters, come and help shape services, influence decisions, and ensure carers’ needs are at the heart of planning.

  What we’re looking for:

  • Lived experience as an unpaid carer, for those over the age of 65, in the last6-12 months
  • Commitment to improving carer support
  • Ability to work as part of a team

  How to apply
  If interested contact Jill McPeak Tel: 07789549412
  or email: PPI@belfasttrust.hscni.net

  The deadline for applications is 22 December 2025.

  If you would like more information, please email PPI@belfasttrust.hscni.net

  If interested please register and get involved:

  Register your interest in joining the Carers’ Strategy Implementation Group

   

  *If more carers express interest than the number of roles available, we will offer other opportunities for involvement in future projects.

• Enhancing care into Care Homes – including carers

  Enhancing care into Care Homes – including carers

  Belfast Trust is currently seeking carers to join a new Enhancing care into Care Homes Group. This group will work with the Trust to ensure that the voice of the carers is integrated into the Enhancing care into Care Homes Group, to improve residents care and support a new approach of anticipatory care planning.

  The Enhancing care into Care Homes programme of work will aim to:
  1. improve residents’ sense of wellbeing
  2. improve anticipatory planning for long term conditions (LTC) including frailty
  3. provide early interventions to prevent crisis resulting in unnecessary attendances at unscheduled care.

  Overview

  Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Department of Health have recently met to agree their proposal as part of the Department of Health ‘Overarching Winter Preparedness plan 2025/26’.
  Focusing on:

  • Older people living with frailty
  • Supporting care
  • Interaction with Health and Social Care

  The Enhancing care into Care Homes Group will oversee the development of the model to deliver a GP led multidisciplinary team (MDT) service. It is hoped this service will proactively enhance care for residents in care homes through the completion of a comprehensive assessment, develop anticipatory care plans by the wider team working together.

  We are seeking carers who have lived experience of care homes in Belfast Trust area in the last 6 -12 months. The group will meet initially every 2 weeks online for 1 hour. There will be an induction and training available, to support your understanding and getting involved.

  We are offering SCOPE training on the 14th Jan online. This training is designed to support you to understand more about getting involved in the Trust. Click here to register: Belfast Trust – SCOPE Training Registration

  If you would like to register your interest in getting involved in this group please click here: Enhancing Care Into Care Homes Group and complete the short on-line registration form.

  Please note closing date for registration is 19^th Jan 2026

  If you would like a role description, support to complete this form or require it in a different language, please contact the PPI team at: Email: PPI@belfsttrust.hscni.net

  Tel: 028 95045476