Public and Professional Involvement Worker, Care

2 weeks ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff University Full time

Key Duties
- Recruit, support and train people with lived experience of adult social care services, unpaid carers and practitioners to be part of the Public Involvement Board and research involvement groups at CARE.
- Design and deliver engaging and appropriate sessions to meaningfully involve our groups and others in feedback, collaboration or coproduction in research.
- Provide professional advice, guidance and support on public involvement to internal and external researchers, using initiative and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action involving members of the public in research projects; particularly those with social care experience. Ensuring that complex and conceptual issues are understood, and proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
- Analysis of public involvement sessions for reporting and impact evaluation.
- Ensure that the provision of involvement is delivered ethically, meaningfully and in line with guidance and legislation, supported by the academic lead for public involvement.
- Collaborate with others in order to make recommendations for developing processes and procedures
- Establish working relationships with key internal and external contacts, developing appropriate communication links with organisations that work with adult users of social care services, unpaid carers and practitioners or have an influence on public involvement at a national level
- Establish and maintain working relationships with other relevant research centres and the Public Involvement Team in the Centre’s infrastructure funder, Health and Care Research Wales,
- Work with others to support the dissemination of research findings to practitioners, users of adult social care services and the general public.
- Present and publicise CARE public involvement work at a national and international level.
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department

General Duties
- Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
- Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
- Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role

**Person Specification**
- Essential Criteria
- Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience
- Substantial experience of working with adults with support or care needs in an engagement, participatory or public involvement role.
- Able to demonstrate professional knowledge or current literature on engagement, participation and co-production in order to give advice, guidance and training to internal and external researchers.
- Good understanding of social science or health research
- Demonstrable awareness of social care issues particularly in relation to adults.
- Ability to communicate complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people
- Evidence of ability to adapt to the needs of individuals
- Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes
- Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.
- A willingness to undertake further training and development

Desirable Criteria
- Postgraduate/Professional qualification
- Experience within Adult Social Care (professional or lived experience of social work with adults)
- Fluency in Welsh, written and oral

**IMPORTANT: Evidencing Criteria**- Please note that these are also the criteria shortlisted applicants will be assessed against at interview and/or by other means (e.g. a skills test).**Additional Information**
- Cardiff University has recently been awarded a £3m grant from Health and Care Research Wales to establish the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE). The Centre will bring together multi-disciplinary expertise from across the university, and foster collaboration with experts elsewhere in the UK, to develop cutting-edge research on adult social care, underpinned by substantial UK-level research funding. Dr Paul Willis has been appointed as the first Director of CARE and will take up his post in November 2023.
- The development of CARE will be supported by the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE), which is the largest research centre of its kind in the UK. CARE offices will be located in the university’s new sbarc | spark building. Sbarc | spark is the first social science research park in the world. Part of the university’s £300m Innovation Campus, this purpose-built facility co-locates world-leading social science researchers with organisations and representatives from the public, third and private sectors - some of which are focused on social care - all working together to address the major complex challenges facing societies.
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