Representation
Ensuring the Leeds Third Sector has a strong, coordinated voice on senior strategic boards and within local health structures.
Our approach
We advocate for a person-centred approach to health and care in Leeds.
We believe that people and communities, and the third sector organisations who support them, should be at the heart of decisions about health and care in the region.
One of the ways we do this is by coordinating a group of representatives ‘reps’ to act on behalf of the third sector in strategic conversations about health and care at city-wide and regional level.
We believe that people and communities, and the third sector organisations who support them, should be at the heart of decisions about health and care in the region.
One of the ways we do this is by coordinating a group of representatives ‘reps’ to act on behalf of the third sector in strategic conversations about health and care at city-wide and regional level.
Become a Rep
Being a Third Sector Representative is an exciting personal and professional development opportunity and a rewarding experience.
If you work in the VCSE sector and are passionate about the sector having an equal voice at the table this role is for you. Being in direct contact with other professionals who have a similar drive for improving health outcomes is professionally fulfilling.
Develop your skills and experience by being in these strategic spaces. Learn from fellow senior leaders. Input into health priorities which matter to you, your community, and the third sector at large.
If you work in the VCSE sector and are passionate about the sector having an equal voice at the table this role is for you. Being in direct contact with other professionals who have a similar drive for improving health outcomes is professionally fulfilling.
Develop your skills and experience by being in these strategic spaces. Learn from fellow senior leaders. Input into health priorities which matter to you, your community, and the third sector at large.
Interested in becoming a Rep?
You are welcome to get in touch to discuss your suitability for the role.
You are welcome to get in touch to discuss your suitability for the role.
Request a Rep
Having a third sector representative at the table is important and offers a unique perspective both on challenges and solutions.
We recognise that it can be difficult to find an appropriate person who can effectively represent the diverse third sector, particularly if you work outside of the sector.
Forum Central provides bespoke support to colleagues across the health and care sector to help identify and recruit third sector reps.
If you require a rep for a board or steering group, please email reps@forumcentral.org.uk to discuss your options, including your reimbursement considerations.
We recognise that it can be difficult to find an appropriate person who can effectively represent the diverse third sector, particularly if you work outside of the sector.
Forum Central provides bespoke support to colleagues across the health and care sector to help identify and recruit third sector reps.
If you require a rep for a board or steering group, please email reps@forumcentral.org.uk to discuss your options, including your reimbursement considerations.
What makes a good Rep
Reps offer a unique insight into health inequalities among different populations in Leeds.
To fulfil the role of a representatives, you will:
To fulfil the role of a representatives, you will:
- speak confidently for the sector, without personal or organisational bias,
- be committed to putting people’s voices at the heart of decision making in Leeds,
- be committed to reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for people,
- understand key concepts, including the wider determinants of health and intersectionality,
- know the health and care system in Leeds, the strategic context and the issues facing third sector organisations. You will also understand the value of place-based and asset-based approaches,
- communicate well and be a confident strategic voice for our diverse third sector, willing to challenge constructively and hold the board to account,
- have experience of contributing to multi-agency meetings,
- understand how health challenges affect different people in different ways, especially in communities facing the biggest health inequalities, such as those who have poorer health outcomes for a variety of reasons.
Support for the role
All Reps are supported by the Forum Central team. You will be assigned a single key contact who can support you before and after the board meeting.
Reps and Reference group meetings
Reps are invited to attend a monthly online meeting to keep you up-to-date with key messages and developments. This also gives you the chance to provide feedback and get peer support.
This takes place the first Wednesday of every month. An agenda is shared in advance and notes follow.
This takes place the first Wednesday of every month. An agenda is shared in advance and notes follow.
Resources for Reps
Boards and meetings with Rep engagement
Health and Wellbeing Board
The board oversee the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, influences the commissioning of services and aims to improve the lives of people of Leeds.
LCH 3rd Sector strategy Steering Group
LCH aim to deliver outstanding care and improve health outcomes for the people they serve by developing productive and effective partnerships with the third sector. This group is responsible for directing the delivery of the LCH third sector strategy.
LYPFT Governor (Also called Council of Governors Meeting)”
LYPFT Council of Governors aims to bring the voice of the people in helping to shape LYPFT services and is part of the NHS Trust’s governance structure The role of a Governor is intended to provide a link between the local community and the Board of Directors.
Mental Health Partnership Board
This board is made up of commissioners from health and social care, people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, and providers from statutory, third sector and public health services. It is the strategic board for mental health in Leeds.
One Workforce programme board
Leeds everyone moving more partnership group
The group provides strategic support in pursuit of the city vision for Leeds to be a place where everyone moves more every day.
Maternity Population Board
The scope of this population includes all women and people at any point within the perinatal period to birth + 12 months.
Leeds ICB Committee
Adults Neighbourhood Health Board
Leeds Provider Partnership Steering Group
Leeds Provider Partnership Finance Steering Group
Organisational Development Network Meeting Active
West Yorkshire Mental Health Learning Disability & Autism (MHLDA) Partnership Board
Health Inequalities Oversight Group
Health Protection Board
People’s Voices Partnership
The PVP brings together leaders in engagement, involvement, and research from across health and care organisations in Leeds. They work together as one team with the aim of putting people’s voices at the centre of health and care decision-making, particularly those living with the greatest health inequalities.
Migrant Health Board
The Board aims to improve health and wellbeing for migrant communities in Leeds.
Neighbourhood Health Workforce Steering Group
Healthy Working Life Programme Board
WYCA administrated board to bring to get work from across WY relating to HWL – Healthy Working Life
Children and Young People Network (was the pop board)
The focus is on improving the health outcomes for people under the age of 18.
Leeds Long Term Conditions Partnership Group Meeting
End of Life Care Board
The focus is on any adults with end of life/palliative care needs.
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust – Third Sector Strategy Group
LCH aim to deliver outstanding care and improve health outcomes for the people they serve by developing productive and effective partnerships with the third sector. This group is responsible for directing the delivery of the LCH third sector strategy.
Leeds Independent Voice Organisation Steering Group
LYPFT & Forum Central Mental Health Operations Group
The codesign arm for both Community First and the 24 hour MH hubs.
Leeds Community Mental Health Partnership (previously alliance) Board
An alliance of MH orgs: Leeds Mind, Touchstone, Northpoint, Barca – working with people with complex MH needs in Leeds.
CMH Transformation Performance, Finance & Quality Meeting
The Transformation Finance, Performance and Quality Group is a sub-group of the Community Mental Health Partnership Board. Its purpose is to monitor finance, performance and quality in refining new ways of working as part of Community Mental Health Transformation.
Synergi Core Group
The Synergi-Leeds Partnership is an award-winning citywide network dedicated to tackling racial injustice and ethnic inequalities in mental health services. This is the core group that directs the work of Synergi.
Synergi Network
The network of broader allies and organisations supporting the Synergi work.
Visible Project Steering Group
The steering group for the Visible Project, a pioneering initiative in Leeds that helps health and care services improve support, accessibility, and trauma-informed care for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA).
Refugee & Asylum Seekers Mental Health Pathway
A group trying to improve mental health pathways for refugees and asylum seekers, chaired by Solace.
PCREF Working Group & Partnership Group
Group of cross sector colleagues working together to support the implementation of the Patient Care Race Equality Framework – working group is just staff, partnership group includes lived experience reps.
Fairer Healthier Leeds
Fairer, Healthier Leeds is a strategic city-wide initiative and health equity program launched when Leeds became an official Marmot City in partnership with the Institute of Health Equity (led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot).
Change the Narrative
A group directing Change the Narrative – a citywide initiative in Leeds focused on challenging and transforming how mental health is understood, discussed, and supported.
Mental Health Editorial Group
The cross sector group creating an action plan to replace the MH strategy.
Leeds Recovery College Steering Group
The Leeds Recovery College Steering Group is an advisory and co-production committee that helps guide the development, planning, and oversight of the Leeds Recovery College.
The board oversee the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, influences the commissioning of services and aims to improve the lives of people of Leeds.
LCH 3rd Sector strategy Steering Group
LCH aim to deliver outstanding care and improve health outcomes for the people they serve by developing productive and effective partnerships with the third sector. This group is responsible for directing the delivery of the LCH third sector strategy.
LYPFT Governor (Also called Council of Governors Meeting)”
LYPFT Council of Governors aims to bring the voice of the people in helping to shape LYPFT services and is part of the NHS Trust’s governance structure The role of a Governor is intended to provide a link between the local community and the Board of Directors.
Mental Health Partnership Board
This board is made up of commissioners from health and social care, people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, and providers from statutory, third sector and public health services. It is the strategic board for mental health in Leeds.
One Workforce programme board
Leeds everyone moving more partnership group
The group provides strategic support in pursuit of the city vision for Leeds to be a place where everyone moves more every day.
Maternity Population Board
The scope of this population includes all women and people at any point within the perinatal period to birth + 12 months.
Leeds ICB Committee
Adults Neighbourhood Health Board
Leeds Provider Partnership Steering Group
Leeds Provider Partnership Finance Steering Group
Organisational Development Network Meeting Active
West Yorkshire Mental Health Learning Disability & Autism (MHLDA) Partnership Board
Health Inequalities Oversight Group
Health Protection Board
People’s Voices Partnership
The PVP brings together leaders in engagement, involvement, and research from across health and care organisations in Leeds. They work together as one team with the aim of putting people’s voices at the centre of health and care decision-making, particularly those living with the greatest health inequalities.
Migrant Health Board
The Board aims to improve health and wellbeing for migrant communities in Leeds.
Neighbourhood Health Workforce Steering Group
Healthy Working Life Programme Board
WYCA administrated board to bring to get work from across WY relating to HWL – Healthy Working Life
Children and Young People Network (was the pop board)
The focus is on improving the health outcomes for people under the age of 18.
Leeds Long Term Conditions Partnership Group Meeting
End of Life Care Board
The focus is on any adults with end of life/palliative care needs.
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust – Third Sector Strategy Group
LCH aim to deliver outstanding care and improve health outcomes for the people they serve by developing productive and effective partnerships with the third sector. This group is responsible for directing the delivery of the LCH third sector strategy.
Leeds Independent Voice Organisation Steering Group
LYPFT & Forum Central Mental Health Operations Group
The codesign arm for both Community First and the 24 hour MH hubs.
Leeds Community Mental Health Partnership (previously alliance) Board
An alliance of MH orgs: Leeds Mind, Touchstone, Northpoint, Barca – working with people with complex MH needs in Leeds.
CMH Transformation Performance, Finance & Quality Meeting
The Transformation Finance, Performance and Quality Group is a sub-group of the Community Mental Health Partnership Board. Its purpose is to monitor finance, performance and quality in refining new ways of working as part of Community Mental Health Transformation.
Synergi Core Group
The Synergi-Leeds Partnership is an award-winning citywide network dedicated to tackling racial injustice and ethnic inequalities in mental health services. This is the core group that directs the work of Synergi.
Synergi Network
The network of broader allies and organisations supporting the Synergi work.
Visible Project Steering Group
The steering group for the Visible Project, a pioneering initiative in Leeds that helps health and care services improve support, accessibility, and trauma-informed care for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA).
Refugee & Asylum Seekers Mental Health Pathway
A group trying to improve mental health pathways for refugees and asylum seekers, chaired by Solace.
PCREF Working Group & Partnership Group
Group of cross sector colleagues working together to support the implementation of the Patient Care Race Equality Framework – working group is just staff, partnership group includes lived experience reps.
Fairer Healthier Leeds
Fairer, Healthier Leeds is a strategic city-wide initiative and health equity program launched when Leeds became an official Marmot City in partnership with the Institute of Health Equity (led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot).
Change the Narrative
A group directing Change the Narrative – a citywide initiative in Leeds focused on challenging and transforming how mental health is understood, discussed, and supported.
Mental Health Editorial Group
The cross sector group creating an action plan to replace the MH strategy.
Leeds Recovery College Steering Group
The Leeds Recovery College Steering Group is an advisory and co-production committee that helps guide the development, planning, and oversight of the Leeds Recovery College.
