We are looking for a skilled researcher and communicator, with experience of designing and delivering effective public engagement and service evaluation projects, and the ability to interpret data and present findings with clarity and impact. 

Location:   Homebased or Melksham office

Hours: 69 hours per month or 16 hours per week

Salary: £25,000pa pro rata

The post holder will support the Evolving Communities local Healthwatch teams with the design, analysis and reporting of their public engagement, research, and service evaluation functions. This incorporates quality assuring project proposals and reports, assisting teams in the development of impactful surveys, supporting simple data analysis and report writing, and staff training and guidance (for example, how to facilitate focus groups, conduct data analysis and carry out one-to-one interviews with participants.

It is anticipated that, as the business develops, the post holder will use their public engagement and service evaluation experience and skills to design, deliver and report on bespoke projects. This will include all aspects from initial project design, including literature reviews and horizon scanning, designing methodology and surveys; project delivery, including interviews and focus groups; and project reporting, including the analysis of data (qualitative and quantitative) and writing reports.

About Us

Evolving Communities is a Community Interest Company that helps local people and organisations shape the way health and social care services are delivered in their communities. Evolving Communities provides a consultancy and stakeholder engagement service – specialising in evaluation and public engagement as well as supporting the work of independent health and social care champions Healthwatch Gloucestershire, Healthwatch Somerset and Healthwatch Dorset.

Do you have experience of working with children and young people and do you understand the challenges they face?  Are you passionate about empowering young people to have their voices heard?

If so, you could be part of an exciting new project that brings positive change to young people’s health and social care services in Gloucestershire.

Healthwatch Gloucestershire is the county’s independent health and care champion. We exist to make sure that local health and social care services are shaped by the people who use them. We want to ensure that children and young people from across the county are listened to and heard by those responsible for health and social care services in Gloucestershire. 

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Youth Engagement Officer to lead our new Young Listeners project. You will recruit, train and support a team of 10 volunteer Young Listeners, to design the project and engage with other children and young people through a peer-to-peer approach. It will be a varied and interesting job and no two days will be the same.

We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic people-person, with a can-do attitude, who will enjoy being part of a small and dynamic team.  

In return we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous contributory pension scheme, comfortable office accommodation in Quedgeley and flexible working practices.

If this sounds like you, please visit our website for more information.

Alternatively, if you are interested in working on this project as a consultant, please get in touch.

About the role

The Youth Engagement Officer is an exciting and important role to engage young people across Gloucestershire.  The role will lead an exciting new Healthwatch Gloucestershire Young Listeners project which aims to ensure the voice of children and young people in the county are listened to and heard by the people who buy, plan and run health and social care services in Gloucestershire .  A team of 10 young people will be recruited to become Young Listeners who will then go out and engage with and listen to other young people on a variety of topics.  The post holder will recruit, train and support the planning and delivery of activities to engage other young people in Gloucestershire.  The post holder will work with the wider Healthwatch Gloucestershire team to deliver the project.

Job Summary

You will be required to:

• Project manage the project
• Recruit, train and support a team of 10 Young Listeners
• Work with the EC Communication team to design materials – logos, leaflets and images – to promote the project
• Identify opportunities for Young Listeners to carry out engagement working with groups and organisations across Gloucestershire
• Work with the Young Listeners to design their own engagement activities and data collection methods
• Provide support to the Young Listeners to carry out a minimum of 100 listening’s
• Analysis the data to identify key messages and recommendations for commissioners and providers.
• Work with the Young Listeners to report on their findings, e.g. video, audio presentation.
• Produce final report
• Monitor the project and on a monthly basis provide an update including case studies as required

If you are passionate about supporting young people to reach their potential, we want you to join our partnership! Bonny Downs Community Association (BDCA) and Renewal Programme (RP) have come together in an exciting new youth project and are seeking 2 x experienced Youth Co-coordinators to provide the young people of Newham with spaces to enjoy, support to achieve their best, and opportunities to make a positive difference in their community.

About us

BDCA is a dynamic community-led charity that has been serving the residents of the London Borough of Newham since 1998. Our motto is, “working together to change lives and transform our community”.  The Renewal Programme has also been working in the borough for 50 years and is passionate about investing in community and supporting people to rise through dignity, inspiration, and empowerment. Together we have a combined track record of over 70 years’ Newham focussed service delivery. including local club youth provision. holiday activities, evening drop-ins, sports activities and youth leadership programmes.

About the roles

These new posts offer an exciting opportunity to play a driving role in launching a new package of services for young people across the economically disadvantaged but beautifully diverse East Ham area of Newham. Each role is 36 hours per week and for an initial fixed term period of 2 years pending further funding. Please see the full job descriptions and person specifications attached and do note an enhanced DBS check will be required.

Our ideal candidates will have significant youth work experience, a passion for working with young people from diverse backgrounds and a high level of motivation to develop an excellent and impactful youth offer.  You will be excellent relationship builders that are enthused by partnership working, and given current circumstances you will also need to be creative in your approach to adapt youth engagement offers safely and in line with Covid-19 restrictions. You will need to demonstrate that you are professional, organised, efficient and able to manage our sessional youth staff, sports coaches, junior leaders and workshop providers. You will also have a robust understanding of safeguarding policy and procedures.

With one role based predominantly at BDCA (London E6) and the other at RP (London E12), you will work together to plan, lead, manage and evaluate sessions in venues across the East Ham community, ensuring project outcomes are effectively delivered. Key shared project outcomes are:

• Provide safe places to enjoy = at least 6 venues will be open for a total of 1759 hours of youth activities each year.
• Increase youth engagement = Each year, at least 495 unique young people will access our regular activities and accredited courses and feel a greater sense of community connection as a result.
• Grow youth leadership = Each year, at least 45 young people will receive intensive year-long support to achieve their best and build their hope and agency to make positive change in their own lives and in their wider community too through accredited youth leadership courses and social action campaigns.
• Deliver inspiring and diverting activities = Each year, the programme will deliver at least 25 co-produced activities including sports, creative arts, wellbeing workshops, free play, tuition support, educational workshops, offsite trips, training and mentoring.

Each role will however have slightly different areas of responsibility as follows:

Youth co-ordinator 1 (BDCA)

This post holder will be specifically responsible for coordinating: four outdoor MUGA sports sessions and one outdoor BMX session per week; year round Saturday volunteering sessions for young sports leaders; support to complete Duke of Edinburgh award scheme led by specialist partner and an annual music production project led by specialist provider. They will also be directly delivering: three virtual activity videos per month; two annual residentials for 15 participants; three-week summer volunteering placement with accredited Sports Leadership Award for 30 participants; monthly Stepping Up life skills training and social action campaign planning workshops plus regular mentoring calls for 15 participants; annual music premiere event for up to 100 attendees; and 10 day trips per year for up to 15 participants.

Youth co-ordinator 2 (RP)

This post holder will be specifically responsible for coordinating and delivering five evening youth clubs per week including a tuition club, journalism club and three drop-in free play sessions with creative workshops. They will be charged with leading the project’s monthly youth forums during the above sessions and also supporting participants to attend borough-wide Youth Citizens Assemblies and Area Youth Forum meetings. So as well as delivering high quality inclusive activities in safe supervised spaces, this new Project Coordinator will focus on increasing access to platforms where youth voices can be heard and younger leaders are supported to help steer local services to boost engagement and impact.

Application process: Please apply by attaching an up to date CV AND covering letter (max 2 pages, applications without cover letters WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED) demonstrating how your skills meet the Job Description and Person Specification and why you are interesting in applying for the role. If your application preference or request is for one specific role over the other then please state this in your cover letter otherwise we will assume you wish to be considered for either role within a single application. We are also willing to consider job share applications for each role from strong candidates

Application deadline:

Please note there is no fixed  closing date, but we are keen to recruit to these posts as quickly as possible and so early applications are very much encouraged. We will invite interviews and begin the selection process on a rolling basis, with the aim to have the positions filled as soon as appropriate candidates are identified. Candidates will need to apply before 1st February to be considered for the first set of interviews fixed for 4th February.

• First interviews via Zoom: Thursday 4th February 2021
• Ideal start date: w/c 15th February 2021

Equal Opportunities Statement

Both BDCA and RP are committed to recruiting high quality candidates whose skills and experience are most suited to the jobs on offer regardless of sex, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion (or beliefs), marital status, sexual orientation, disability, age or political affiliation.

Shannon Trust is a charity operating across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, supporting thousands of people in prison each year to transform their lives by unlocking the power of reading. We inspire and train prisoners who can read to teach prisoners who can’t.  2020 was a year of adaptation brought about by COVID19 – we revised our delivery model and now, in 2021, we want to develop much further.  To support this, we are now recruiting to new roles and are seeking proactive, committed, and enthusiastic applicants to join our team and help us continue our journey.

Working closely with prisons, volunteers and mentors, this role will lead the delivery and development of our prison-based programme across South West England and Wales, maximising opportunities for people in prison to learn to read.  You’ll be an excellent relationship builder, confident in the management and training of volunteers, and able to problem solve.  We want to hear from applicants who can lead, be a team player, with knowledge of the criminal justice system (CJS) and who are comfortable with the use of digital business tools.

Salary:  £28,000 per annum, 35 hours per week
Length of Contract: 12 months, with the possibility of extension
Pension Payment: CommUNITY Barnet will make a pension contribution into a workplace pension scheme
Annual Leave:28 days per annum, excluding bank holidays 
Location:  Based in White City W12, with some homeworking

We are seeking to appoint a Community Engagement Coordinator who will bring their enthusiasm and experience of community engagement and communications to incite lasting change in the W12Together community.

W12Together is one of 150 areas around England that is providing an opportunity for local residents to use the £1m that has been allocated to make a massive and lasting positive difference to their communities. They are a Partnership of local residents, bringing together all the local talent, ambitions, skills and energy from individuals, groups and organisation who want to make their area an even better place to live.

Big Local is being managed nationally by Local Trust, which is working with £200m from the Big Lottery Fund and a range of partners providing expert advice and support for residents. Find out more about W12Together on our website.

We are looking for an exceptional Community Engagement Coordinator who will work independently and in partnership, to develop and support opportunities for all members of the W12Together community to engage with Big Local.  This includes supporting volunteers and paid staff, as well as creating and delivering a Community Engagement Strategy that expands the involvement of local residents.

Working under the umbrella of CommUNITY Barnet, the Locally Trusted Organisation, we can offer you training as appropriate to support your own career development.

The job requires the flexibility to meet the requirements of weekend or evening work.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates

The closing date for applications is Monday 1st February 2021 at 5pm.  To apply, please send your CV and covering letter clearing explaining how you meet the criteria set out in the Person Specification.

Interviews will be held in February 

Sciety is a platform for research communication where new research results in biology, medicine and other sciences are made available for peer review and curation by different expert communities. It is built and operated by a small team at eLife Sciences Publications Limited.

Communities of discipline experts, academic societies, journal editors, early-career reviewers, or institution- and department-level teams can share expert reviews of new findings and help readers to navigate the expanding volume of literature made openly available every day. We have communities like eLife, PREReview, Review Commons and Peer Community as examples of those already on board.

We are now seeking a Community and Outreach Manager to help us change behaviour in scholarly communication to make it more open, diverse and trustworthy. We want to grow the usage and influence of the platform by talking to new communities, helping existing communities and finding groups of readers and authors to use it.

Our Team

You’ll join a small and enthusiastic cross-functional team who are passionate about continuous improvement and building tools to enable positive change. Everyone gets involved in all aspects of the platform, with our group of eight staff regularly discussing the next software feature to experiment with, based on user feedback. You’ll represent the needs of communities in those conversations and choose the metrics we use to measure engagement. You’ll also assist our Product Manager and the rest of the team in promoting the platform to potential users through a variety of channels.

The distributed team works remotely in a very sociable way. Most of the software development takes place on a single video call with others joining occasionally to provide input and join the conversation. We also have a regular “campfire” session where we learn about each other and share team folklore to improve our shared understanding of what we’re building and how. The team constantly adapts to meet the needs of its members: we meet briefly at the beginning and end of every day, always looking to make improvements to our process and practices. We also have a number of ways to reserve time for self-directed and team-based learning.

About You

You care about building a strong sense of community around a product and know how technology can enhance the lives of people that use it. You know that getting the best out of a system comes from strong collaboration with the people using it, both on the user side and within your team. You enjoy working with diverse communities that want to try new things, and have spent time building new communities through social media and marketing. Engaging in discussions to attract like-minded evangelists to your product and uniting them around a common cause is something that excites you.

You’ll succeed in this role if you’re self-motivated, flexible, responsive, and willing to take on a variety of tasks. In addition you’ll have:

• Some experience in community outreach and management
• Strong relationship-management skills
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills

Your Responsibilities

This role will allow you to exercise and develop your expertise in community-building and marketing through:

• Identifying and recruiting communities of expert peer-reviewers to the platform
• Listening to communities, serving as their primary contact point and providing support so that we can make their use of Sciety a success
• Increasing awareness of and readership for Sciety and the content we have
• Liaising with communities to facilitate smooth on-boarding and integration with their existing services
• Representing Sciety at events and meetings

About Our Offer

Sciety is operated by a team within eLife who are a well-supported, not-for-profit, mission-driven organisation. It’s important to us that you thrive as a person, not just at your job. We invest in the wellbeing of our staff and promote a culture where feedback and ideas are welcome from across the company, so you’ll get the chance to really make a difference.

The post is a permanent position, 37.5 hours per week, and offers a competitive basic annual salary in the range of £32,500-£37,000 (depending on experience). Applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK to be considered for the vacancy. We also offer:

• A flexible approach to working hours and remote working
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, increasing on service up to 30 days
• 4 days per year dedicated to your personal development
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Company pension scheme

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace and we actively encourage applications from groups that are underrepresented throughout the industry.

To apply

Please send your CV and a covering letter explaining your enthusiasm for this position and why you are a great person for this role. Informal enquiries are very welcome; please contact Paul Shannon, Head of Technology, via p.shannon[at]elifesciences[.]org.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 29th January, 2021 at 5pm GMT. Interviews will be arranged remotely via Google Meet or Zoom video-call. Candidates invited for an interview will be contacted by Friday, 5th February, 2021.

Reference ID: SCOM/2020-12

Salary: £30,000 p.a. pro rata
Hours: part-time, 30 hours per week (worked over 4 or 5 days)
Contract: 15 months (Feb/March 2021 - April/May 2022), with possibility of extension

Are you passionate about connecting with diverse communities in creative and meaningful ways? Do you see the power and potential of working with women’s stories and voices? Are you up for the exciting challenge of a new role which will take our community engagement to the next level?

We’re the East End Women’s Museum, a small charity that researches, shares and celebrates stories of East London women, past and present. In the next 15 months we’ll open a new building in Barking town centre. It will be a base for our new exhibition, learning and engagement programmes for schools, community, family and adult audiences.

In the lead up to opening the new site, we’re planning a year-long community engagement and co-creation programme which puts local voices at the heart of our decision-making process. We want to create a sense of local ownership of the museum, and ensure the building designs and new community programmes are welcoming, relevant and appealing to local audiences.

We’re looking for someone with relevant experience, excellent relationship-building skills and an audience-focused approach to create inclusive and impactful programmes that help put local women’s stories in the spotlight.

We’re especially keen to hear from you if you’re familiar with our local audiences and have existing networks within Barking and Dagenham and / or Newham.

Application deadline: Tuesday 19th January 2021, 6pm
Interviews scheduled: Friday 29th January 2021
Start date: immediate preferred, and ideally no later than Monday 1st March 2021

Applications are by CV and personal statement. Please see our website for the full person specification and job description, and details of how to apply.

New Community Manager, Branches role at the CIPD.

We’re the CIPD — the professional body for HR and people development. We are the voice of a worldwide community of more than 150,000 members committed to championing better work and working lives. 

As Community Manager, Branches, you will manage and facilitate CIPD branch, member networks and other HR community activity including branch events, groups and delivery activities.

Click to view further details and to apply! Application deadline 20 January 2021

Community Engagement and BAMER Mental Wellbeing Manager

We’re looking for a passionate, caring and experienced manager for our BAMER mental wellbeing service. You’ll run the service, manage your own caseload and lead our community engagement work.

Who are LRMN?

We offer refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants a specialist and holistic service. We advocate for people’s rights, campaign for wider change, meet their basic needs and help them improve their wellbeing.

Why do we need you?

To enhance the quality of life, choice and opportunities for adults from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) communities with mental health and wellbeing problems in Lewisham by ensuring those living in the borough have access to the support to enable them to remain active in their community through the skills and experience of community champions. To engage with diverse communities, including through community and faith groups, to increase understanding of mental health problems and overcome barriers to accessing mental health support and services.

LRMN is an equal opportunity employer and committed to safeguarding and fulfilling its duty of care to people working and volunteering in the organisation and to those we come into contact with.

For the job description, person specification and link to our online application form, please go to our website.

Position: Digital Engagement Manager
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: MS National Office, NW London (Currently home-based)
Salary: Circa £47,220 per annum
Salary Band: Band H, Level 1
Department: Digital and Content

At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.

Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.

About this job

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated people person to lead our digital engagement function.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a team of experienced channel specialists, providing leadership as we continue to innovate across our ever-growing digital channels.

You must love collaborative working, always seeking opportunities to work alongside teams to help them develop their digital engagement strategies for campaigns, appeals, new technology and products.

You will use your understanding of 360 campaign management, the supporter journey and personalisation to share content that drives income and engagement across our website, social media, email, video, influencer and paid marketing channels.

As an experienced people manager you will always be looking for ways to empower and motivate your team. You will love working with them to create new ideas and new ways of working to help increase our impact.

Together you will lead on a series of exciting projects including evolving our digital and content strategies, launching a brand new forum and developing tailored email programmes to help people live better with MS.

You will be joining us at an exciting stage of our digital programme as we shape the way we engage with supporters. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and vibrant team, who are dedicated to making a difference for people with MS.

We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.

The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our new 5 year strategy.

Part of this exciting transformation will include an office move from our current National Centre in Cricklewood, NW London to a different location in London. We are currently defining where and what type of accommodation this will be and we really want our staff to be involved in that decision.

Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 6th January 2021

In order to apply for this role, please submit an updated CV and supporting statement indicating how you meet the criteria as set out in the person specification in the attached job description

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity. 

No agencies please.

Reference:HQ00178094

Location:London or Homebased with national travel

Salary:£51,000 per annum

Contract type:Permanent

Date closing:24/01/2021

Prospectus is excited to be partnering Rethink Mental Illness, a national charity that supports people seriously affected by mental illness, as well as their carers, family and friends. Established over 50 years ago Rethink have lobbied and petitioned to create better mental health provisions across the UK and supports various different mental health programmes across the country, whilst working in partnership with NHS Trusts and charities. They are now looking to recruit a Head of Community Engagement as they embark on an exciting period of expansion, at a time when the need has never been greater.

As their Head of Community Engagement, you will contribute to the set-up and implementation of their new Community Mental Health Unit across five place-based alliances in England. Working collaboratively with your peers and voluntary and community-based organisations. You will drive forward their thinking and practice on the Community Mental Health Framework; achieving real change for people seriously affected by mental illness in their community, both directly in the five new local alliance areas and also through influencing the wider health and care system and indeed anything in the community that bears on people's recovery and well-being. You will be a thought leader, making the most of the charity's national platform and networks to develop and spread innovation and new practice.

To be successful for this exciting opportunity, you will have previous experience of engaging with, and building established professional networks, combined with the ability to contribute to the implementation and management of projects and alliances that create opportunities to reach those requiring support in the community. This is a pivotal role for Rethink and as such, you will be emotionally intelligent, dynamic and adaptable with the strategic knowledge to engage and connect with different voluntary & community organisations and groups that contribute to an effective, all-encompassing service provided to individuals at times of need. Whilst direct experience working in Mental Health is not essential, you must be passionate about driving change, and understand the benefits of building professional alliances that are crucial to supporting individual people seriously affected by mental illness.

Please apply with a Word copy of your CV; a covering letter is not required at this stage.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. Please note, we are currently experiencing high volumes of interest in vacancies so it may not be possible to answer any individual queries on positions prior to an application or registration.

Harris Hill is delighted to be working with Muscle Help Foundation in their urgent search for a Virtual Community Engagement Lead.

The Muscle Help Foundation (MHF) is an award-winning small specialist national family-centred charity that delivers transformational, highly personalised, empowering experiences in the UK (ie. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), called Muscle Dreams for children and young people with muscular dystrophy and allied neuromuscular conditions

As a result of COVID-19, MHF took the extremely difficult decision to postpone its planned 2020 Muscle Dream activities in March 2020. They remain resolute and determined to continue their vital work into 2021 until beneficiaries and families are able to re-engage in person i.e. face to face. Families have been shielding since March 2020. They are focussed on engaging with their community across the country and reducing their Muscle Dream wait-list in addition to offering other virtual programmes directly into the homes of beneficiaries and their families wherever possible.

The charity is excited to be able to continue its vital work during COVID-19 and as such, we are delighted to announce this new role funded by an award from BBC Children in Need. This proof-of-concept project has five key goals:

• Communicate with our existing community ie. beneficiaries (between ages of 8-18yrs) & families across the UK, tracking outcomes (using framework provided by charity)
• Establish how we can best support our community at this time & signpost where appropriate
• Share with families our COVID-19 activities, update family contact details in line with GDPR
• Encourage families to participate on one or more of our virtual programmes and/or COVID-19 activities
• Capture pre and post data (quantitative & qualitative) and interpretative observations (qualitative) - a framework and an appropriate tool will be provided by the charity

As a result of COVID-19 and with this new Interim Community Engagement Lead role, you will be responsible for scoping out and implementing an effective communication plan that will see you start what has now become a critically important role in directly engaging with our clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) community, in ultimately giving them hope - ideally, we are seeking someone who has experience in working with disability and vulnerable families

Competencies & Behaviours

• Confident self-starter who can work independently is critical
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills with outstanding project management abilities
• High levels of empathy in communicating with our clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) families
• Sensitivity in listening and responding in a thoughtful / considered manner
• Social media, digital skills (essential)
• Experience of Mentimeter audience engagement online tool (desirable)
• An eye for detail, with bags of initiative to quickly grasp what needs to be done
• Outstanding admin skills, specifically recording & updating using software tools in real time
• Someone that sees the big picture regarding the charity's wider aims and objectives
• Collaborative in nature, team focussed and supportive
• Passionate attitude that reflects the charity's vision, mission and values
• A commitment to and an understanding of disability issues
• A commitment to and an understanding of equal opportunities & diversity

We welcome applications from anyone who feels they meet this specification and has the enthusiasm, drive and passion to take on this key appointment at a time that continues to be extremely challenging for our clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) community.

Due to the nature of this contract, the client is looking for an immediate start, so please do not delay in applying for this role. 

Looking for 3 x Community Builders 6 – 12 months contract in various locations across Thurrock.

Building relationships and connections with and between local people and local social associations (including community groups, faith networks, art groups, environmental groups etc.), Thurrock Council and others.

The positions are all home based, but a high visible presence within communities will be required, including possible evening and weekend work which will fit into the flexible roles.

Are you a confident researcher who would like to use your skills to amplify the voices and experience of Deaf and disabled people in Barnet?  Do you have your own lived experience of disability (which could include a long term condition or mental health issues)? 

We are looking for an enthusiastic self-starter to take on an exciting two year project to understand disabled people’s experience of the social care system.  Using surveys and interviews, and supported by a steering group of users who you will work with closely, you will build a picture of how much people feel the support they receive is helping them achieve independence and the outcomes they aspire to.  You’ll use that information to build reports and recommendations, culminating in a conference to share learning and hear from other areas about how to build best practice in support and co-production.

A natural relationship builder, you will be able to adjust your communication style to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, from users to senior council staff to other London DDPOs.  You’ll also be able to write clearly, persuasively and accessibly, creating reports and information that people want to read.  You’ll also be able to advocate effectively for greater co-production and make a positive case for change, sensitive to the perspective of a range of stakeholders but able to find solutions and suggestions that build user involvement.

You’ll hold overall responsibility for our user voice work, overseeing the work of our User Voice Lead and ensuring that there is effective shared learning between different projects.  Supervisory experience would therefore be an asset, but we are also open to applications from talented disabled people looking to move into their first management role.  Confidence to conduct high-quality research independently with minimal supervision is essential, however.

This is a great opportunity to create a really impactful piece of work and influence thinking on approaches to Adult Social Care.  The work is Barnet-based, but we hope it will be influential far beyond the borough.  So we’re looking for someone committed to making a difference, who will take this opportunity and help create positive change. 

In return, you will become part of a friendly and supportive team, working within a focused but flexible culture, where diversity is valued and you can bring your whole self to work.

The role is based in Colindale, but with some flexibility for homeworking days.  The role is totally home based during lockdown. 

Interviews will be in early February, with the successful candidate commencing in post 1st April. To apply, please submit your CV and a full cover letter explaining how you would use your lived experience of disability to inform your work, as well as detailing your research experience.