Our Vacancies
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The Research Fellow (IMPACT Facilitator) will support the delivery of a number of change projects delivered across the UK known as ‘Facilitator’ projects. They will be part of the UK Centre for implementing evidence in adult social care – Improving Adult Social Care Together (IMPACT) working closely with Professor Karen Watchman and Dr Kathryn Mackay, co-leads (job share) of the Facilitator delivery model. UK Facilitator projects take a ‘bottom-up’ approach to supporting the implementation of knowledge of social care. This new Research Fellow (IMPACT Facilitator) role will work alongside Delivery Leads to provide remote support to local projects. They will regularly liaise with IMPACT staff responsible for gathering local evidence and evaluation, embedding of project outcomes and with the central IMPACT team located at the University of Birmingham.
The post holder will contribute to the delivery of Facilitator projects and will work on cross-cutting issues with other IMPACT project officers and national leads for evaluation and embedding.
- Lead or contribute to IMPACT evidence reviews in relation to policy/practice issues specific to adult social care. As an example, current and recent Facilitator topics can be viewed at https://impact.bham.ac.uk/our-projects/facilitators/
- Monitor new research and evidence-based publications in adult social care on a regular basis and establish ways to routinely update Facilitators and their host organisations
- Support evaluation colleagues with collation of accurate and timely evaluation and monitoring for Facilitator projects across the UK in line with IMPACT protocols
- Support and monitor contact with external stakeholders across Facilitator projects
- Attend fortnightly Facilitator team meetings (online)
- Meet regularly with remotely based Facilitators to ensure two-way exchange of information and learning
- Review and monitor co-production work across IMPACT Facilitator projects and liaise remotely with the IMPACT co-production group as required
- Work with Deputy Head of Embedding to support Facilitators in dissemination and scaling up of Facilitator projects across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Produce ongoing and end of project web briefings for a range of audiences following IMPACT templates
- Support the ongoing development of communication updates for web, social media and networking
- Promote equality and value diversity, acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture
- Support the work of other IMPACT Project Officers with such activities as may be required from time to time
- Prepare and deliver Facilitator-related presentations and lead meetings with external stakeholders as required
- Represent IMPACT externally and deputise for the Delivery Leads when needed
- Any other duties commensurate with grade of post
Full time
Fixed term contract (until December 2027)
Grade 7, £38,249 – £45,413 p.a.
Closing date: 10 August 2025
The Research Assistant will support the delivery of the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care – Improving Adult Social Care Together (IMPACT). They will work closely with Professor Louise McCabe, Deputy Head of Evidence and Evaluation. This is an opportunity to be part of an exciting and innovative Implementation Centre funded by the ESRC and the Health Foundation to improve social care outcomes by implementing evidence-based practice in the sector across all four UK nations. The post holder’s core responsibilities will be with the review of evidence to support change; internal evaluation of the centre’s projects and support for national work in Scotland.
- Supporting monitoring and evaluation activities across the Centre, in accordance with the Theory of Change and evaluation protocols
- Undertaking evidence reviews
- Promote equality and value diversity, acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture
- Ensuring quality of evidence assessment and translation for practice
- Supporting staff to implement evidence protocols and procedures across IMPACT
- Synthesising and reporting on monitoring and evaluation data from across IMPACT
- Planning and contributing to academic and other publications arising from evidence review and evaluation
- Delivering academic workshops to build theory/key concepts from IMPACT’s practical work on the ground
- Supporting the work of the Stirling-based Scotland Project Officer with such activities as may be required
Full time
Fixed term contract (until December 2027)
Grade 6, £30,805 – £37,174 p.a.
Closing date: 7 August 2025