NHS Band 6
Closing Date: 18.06.2025
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 19.06.2025
Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 01.07.2025
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our Centre for Co-production and Peer Research (CoPPeR) network to help us advance our Patient and Public Involvement and Co-production approaches in two programmes of work.
Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (YHARC). We are looking to appoint someone with confidence, strong organisational and communication skills, who pays close attention to detail. The ideal candidate will work well in a team and independently. They will be based in the Bradford Institute for Health Research and will work on a variety of projects with a focus on advancing community inclusive approaches.
The successful candidate will be great at developing, maintaining, and strengthening relationships, to obtain valuable involvement experiences. They will be able to think creatively to solve problems, be able to adapt what they share to match the needs of audiences and communicate findings in a suitable way for all stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
This role will be focused on working with community organisations and members of the general public to expand our co-production and public involvement approaches. It will involve supporting services to share best practice across a range of forums both within the CRDC and the YHARC. This will include supporting local involvement and engagement strategies and involvement opportunities and promoting networks through a variety of approaches and channels.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of two major National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) programmes and to advance our ambitions to work with a variety of community groups from the Yorkshire and Humber region. This opportunity will suit a self-motivated and dynamic individual who can work across a broad range of sectors to ensure community voices are embedded in (i) the NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre: Bradford and West Yorkshire and (ii) the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration.
Working for our organisation
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous relevant experience of working with diverse groups of people in a community setting
- Experience of working to tight deadlines
- Demonstrates past experience of team working and group work
- Experience of promoting initiatives through a range of communication channels
- Experience of community engagement and/or outreach work
- Experience of working with and leading groups
- Experience of planning and managing events
- Experience of producing outputs from engagement activities with relevant audiences
Desirable criteria
- Experience of translating research into practice.
Skills
Essential criteria
- High levels of communication and interpersonal skills both verbal and written including negotiation and diplomacy.
- Effective communication and presentation skills (written and oral)
- Ability to develop operational plans to achieve strategic goals
- Be able to manage and prioritise own workload effectively on a day to day basis
- Strong organisational skills
- Able to maintain complete and accurate records systems
- Ability to suggest improvements in working practice to enable better working practice.
- Able to deal with unexpected problems and use initiative to solve these
- Ability to present information in various formats and to different staff groups both external and internal to the organisation.
- Able to work flexibly
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience*
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject
