The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is on the hunt for Senior Responsible Officers who will help to lead and champion the West Yorkshire Suicide Prevention Programme. 
The officers will play a vital role in the Programme’s collective movement to make suicide everyone’s business.
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 and the biggest killer of young people.
West Yorkshire has higher rates of suicide than England as a whole, for men and women, and the Partnership is keen to recruit more leaders in their field to help realise the goal of reducing suicides across the county.
Expressions of interest are invited from any current leader working in West Yorkshire with a strong track record in strategic oversight and passion and energy for suicide prevention – with expressions particularly welcome from public health, voluntary and criminal justice sector colleagues.
This will be a shared role with the current SROs, Darryl Thompson, chief nurse and director of quality and professions at South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust and Nichola Sanderson, deputy director of nursing at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
It was recently announced that the Programme’s current third SRO, Kim Shutler, CEO of The Cellar Trust in Bradford, was stepping down from her role to take up a position on the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).
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To find out more about the programme, please contact Jess Parker, Suicide Prevention Project Manager, at jessica.parker29@nhs.net.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact any of the current SROs: Nichola.sanderson@nhs.net, kim.shutler@thecellartrust.org; and/or Darryl.thompson@swyt.nhs.uk.
Expressions of interest to Fredi Garbe, Director of Improving Population Health at West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership by 19th Sept 2022.