A fellowship programme has been launched for a second year at West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership – with five positions available for Suicide Prevention Fellows. 
Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Improving Population Health Fellowship, looking for more fellows to work on projects designed to make a positive difference to population health.
A total of 70 fellows are being sought and, this year, five positions are available to work on the Suicide Prevention Programme.
Also available are five fellowships for Climate Change, 30 for Health Equity and 30 for Adversity, Trauma and Reslience.
It follows the success of the previous Health Equality Fellowship, launched in 2021, which saw 33 fellows from health and care sectors carry out projects aimed at tackling health inequalities, including projects targeting children’s health, mentoring people and self-managing diabetes.
The Fellowship will run from March 2023 to March 2024, with applications welcome from all health and care sectors, including community and voluntary colleagues across West Yorkshire.
Dr Sohail Abbas, deputy medical director, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Chair of the Health Inequalities Network, for WY HCP said: “We are delighted to launch year two of our fellowship now even bigger than before.
“If you are passionate about making a real difference to our local communities this could be the programme for you.
“That might be about tackling health inequalities, addressing barriers that people affected by trauma can experience when accessing services, protecting our environment or helping to prevent suicide.”
Being a fellow involves working on a project relevant to your fellowship theme and delivering it in your workplace, or by joining a system-wide initiative across West Yorkshire.
Fellows will need to dedicate a day each week to carry out the fellowship training (mainly delivered virtually) and the project work.
The Fellowship is open to all primary, secondary, community and voluntary sector colleagues across West Yorkshire irrespective of current job role, grade or profession.
Applications are open from 7 November and close on 9 December.
All information, including a statement of interest form, can be found here: Improving Population Health Fellowship pages.
Anyone interested in volunteering to be a mentor to the Fellows is also asked to get in touch, by emailing caroline.andrews16@nhs.net or verity.phillips3@nhs.net.