National Embedding Lead

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £46,735 to £55,755 with potential progression once in post to £62,728 : Grade 8

Part time – 18.75 hours per week

Fixed Term Contract up to December 2027

3 positions available

Background

IMPACT (‘Improving Adult Care Together’) is a UK-wide centre for implementing evidence in adult social care, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, and the Health Foundation. IMPACT is an ‘implementation centre’, building on knowledge gained from different types of research, the lived experience of people drawing on care and support and their carers, and the practice knowledge of social care staff.

Its aims are to enable practical improvements on the ground, and make a crucial contribution to longer-term cultural change, by:

• Increasing the use of high-quality evidence, leading to better care practices, systems and outcomes
  
  
• Building capacity and skills in the adult social care workforce to work with evidence of different kinds to innovate and deliver better outcomes

• Developing relationships between a wide range of stakeholders across the sector, to improve outcomes for people who draw on services and their families

• Improving understanding of what elements of evidence implementation do and do not work in practice, and using this to overcome barriers 

Main Responsibilities

The National Embedding leads Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will include

• Delivering significant knowledge transfer activities in partnership with people who draw on care and support, carers, care workers, public services, government, care commissioners, regulators and other national adult social care stakeholders; this could be in the form of policy round tables, events, policy advice and/or other influence and engagement activities.
• Drawing on both an in-depth knowledge of adult social care policy and practice priorities, plans and strategies in their nation and IMPACT’s theory of change to co-ordinate, plan and organize IMPACT priorities for knowledge transfer activities, and translating these into a plan to sustain, scale and spread implementation of research findings over a number of years across the adult care sector in their nation.
• Leading on the development and forward planning of embedding related public engagement/outreach activities aligned to government and sector priorities - working closely with IMPACT Comms and Engagement Manager/team.

Person Specification

• Educated to Higher Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) plus significant relevant practical experience – where no equivalent qualification is held substantial practical relevant experience and expertise in a series of progressively more demanding roles will be required;
• Substantial experience of implementing evidence informed change in an adult social care or other public service setting
• In-depth knowledge of government and sector long-term priorities for adult social care in their nation
• Ability to plan a programme of knowledge mobilisation activities with the potential to deliver long-term sustained change in adult social care practice and policy.

Informal enquiries can be made to Laura Griffith - l.b.griffith@bham.ac.uk

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