Co-production & Community Engagement Manager (18 Month FTC)

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bradford is seeking an individual to enhance community engagement through co-production initiatives. The successful candidate will work collaboratively to ensure community voices shape healthcare programs, supporting services and promoting best practices. This role requires strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to work both independently and within a team.

Qualifications

• Confident individual with strong organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team and independently.
• Self-motivated and dynamic, capable of ensuring community voices are embedded.

Responsibilities

• Expand co-production and public involvement approaches.
• Support sharing of best practices within assigned forums.
• Develop and maintain relationships for valuable involvement experiences.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Creative problem-solving

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

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. 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. 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.

Responsibilities

• Work with community organisations and members of the general public to expand co-production and public involvement approaches.
• Support services to share best practice across a range of forums both within the CRDC and the YHARC.
• Support local involvement and engagement strategies and involvement opportunities and promote networks through a variety of approaches and channels.
• Develop, maintain, and strengthen relationships to obtain valuable involvement experiences.
• Think creatively to solve problems, adapt communications to match the needs of audiences, and communicate findings in a suitable way for all stakeholders.
• Work across the NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre: Bradford and West Yorkshire and the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration.

Our People Charter

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.

Qualifications and attributes

• Confident, with strong organisational and communication skills and close attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a team and independently.
• Based in the Bradford Institute for Health Research.
• Self-motivated and dynamic, capable of working across a broad range of sectors to ensure community voices are embedded in NIHR programmes.