Management and administration team
The work of the Salford Strategic Partnership is supported and facilitated by the partnership team. The postal address and main telephone number for the team is:
Partners IN Salford
2nd Floor, Unity House
Salford Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
M27 5FJ
Tel: 0161 793 3421
The new telephone numbers for the team members are:
0161 793 3421 - Gail Aspinall
0161 793 2929 - Jon Stephenson
0161 793 2496 - Gerry Stone
0161 793 3796 - Susan Ford
The team is funded by the Working Neighbourhood Fund and team members are employed by Salford City Council and Salford Primary Care Trust.
The Partnership manager manages the team and ensures that the work of the partnership is delivered to achieve the objectives of the community plan. This involves agenda planning for the partnership board and the executive, facilitating partnership involvement in the development of strategic business including the Salford Agreement and giving advice on continued improvement to partnership working.
Gail's role entails ensuring that all SSP meetings are scheduled for the forthcoming year and agendas, reports and minutes are produced and circulated. Another part of Gail's role is to attend the Diversity Leaders and Health and Safety meetings as a representative for the partnership team.
Susan is responsible for developing training on community engagement and partnership working. She also web edits the community engagement pages on the Partners IN Salford website.
Jon is one of the managers within the LSP management and administration Team. He is jointly responsible for the delivery of the community engagement strategy and development of the implementation plan and toolkit. This is the overarching strategy for the delivery of community engagement activities across the city and links directly with the Local Area Agreement Community Engagement Objective. He oversees the work of the Governance Officer and Training and Resources Officers, developing guidelines and principles for better community engagement working and Jon also has responsibility for managing the work of the Community Empowerment Manager who works directly with the various citywide communities of identity. Jon established the Ethnicity Monitoring Framework (EMF), a process for measuring the take up of services and their suitability for members of the black and minority ethnic communities within Salford and now manages the EMF Officer who will embed this framework. Furthermore Jon has responsibility for many of the team's financial and reporting requirements and deputises for the LSP Manager when required.
Gerry Stone is the Partnership Community Governance Officer. This role entails supporting partner organisation to deliver effective community engagement using the Gold Standards In Community Involvement and the Gold Standards In Consultation. To enable her to fulfil her role, Gerry is a member of various officer working groups and partnerships at local level and national level. The partnership has now agreed Principles In Good Governance and all members of the team will be involved in rolling out the Principles with Gerry taking a lead on this.
This member of the teams role entails ensuring that all partners are fully aware of what the partnership is, and to communicate about its activities both within the partnership and to external audiences. This involves maintaining the partnership website, disseminating information via e-mail and newsletters, producing the strategic partnership meeting summaries and any other publicity and information material.
This member of the team works to ensure that the voice of vulnerable and marginalised groups is heard within the partnership and subsequent within partner organisations. This includes groups around disability, faith, women, children & young people, older people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, black & minority ethnic people, and asylum seekers and refugees.
This involves mapping the work that goes on in these areas, helping the groups with support around their development and liaising with partner organisations around how the groups can be involved in their work.
0161 793 3421