Research Fellow (Project Officer)

University of Stirling

Job title:

Analysis Fellow (Challenge Officer)

Firm

College of Stirling

Job description

The Challenge Officer will help the supply of the UK implementation centre in grownup social care – Enhancing Grownup Social Care Collectively (IMPACT). This is a chance to be a part of an thrilling and revolutionary Implementation Centre funded for practically 7 years by the ESRC and the Well being Basis to enhance social care outcomes by implementing evidence-based apply within the sector throughout all 4 UK nations. The Challenge Officer will help the work of IMPACT in Scotland, in addition to working with the cross-UK workforce.

IMPACT is an ‘Implementation Centre’, drawing on information gained from several types of analysis, the lived expertise of individuals utilizing providers and their carers, and the apply information of social care employees. Its goals are to allow sensible enhancements on the bottom, and make a vital contribution to longer-term cultural change, by:

  • Supporting extra widespread use of evidencein grownup social care, main to raised care practices, techniques and outcomes for individuals who use providers, their households and communities
  • Constructing capability andskills within the grownup social care workforce to work with proof of various sorts to innovate, enhance care and ship higher outcomes
  • Facilitating sustainable and productive relationshipsbetween the total vary of grownup social care stakeholders to co-create optimistic change/improvements and enhance outcomes for folks utilizing grownup social care and their households
  • Enhancing understanding of the elements which assist and hinderthe implementation of proof in apply, and utilizing this to beat longstanding obstacles to optimistic change

Extra details about IMPACT will be discovered right here:

TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE

Please full the on-line utility type and submit a masking letter indicating the way you meet the factors for the position and an updated CV.

Description of Duties

  • Assist IMPACT’S Scotland lead (Alison Bowes) and the broader Stirling workforce to help IMPACT’s Scotland Meeting, and to interact numerous stakeholders and folks with lived expertise of grownup social care in IMPACT’s wider work
  • Characterize IMPACT throughout Scotland and hold abreast of coverage and apply developments there, reporting on and summarising these as required
  • Assist IMPACT’s work to boost efficient use of analysis findings and different types of proof in grownup social care
  • Evaluation and synthesise current analysis and evidence-based publications inside the broad area of grownup social care, focusing these as directed
  • Draft coverage and apply briefs to help coverage and apply implementation of strong proof and contribute to IMPACT-related educational publications
  • Organise and design IMPACT conferences in Scotland, and attend exterior occasions as required
  • Guarantee correct and well timed reporting and the implementation of IMPACT procedures
  • Contribute to IMPACT’s supply actions and to the organisation of IMPACT’s work UK-wide, and work on cross-cutting points with different nationwide IMPACT mission officers
  • Deal appropriately with any issues which will have an effect on well timed achievement of Centre goals
  • Have interaction in different IMPACT actions as required and in line with abilities profile
  • Promote equality and worth range, performing as a job mannequin and fostering an inclusive working tradition
  • Contribute to College research-related actions, e.g. by taking part in one of many College analysis teams

Important Standards

{Qualifications}

  • Postgraduate diploma at PhD degree in a related topic space (or close to to completion), or equal {qualifications}

Information, abilities and expertise

  • Demonstrable curiosity and/or experience in utilized analysis in a social care, incapacity, psychological well being, ageing or different setting related to IMPACT’s work
  • Consciousness of the present state of analysis in a number of fields related to grownup social care
  • Excessive degree of analytical functionality
  • Expertise of data alternate and influence work, and of taking analysis findings into actual world utility
  • Information of the protected traits of the Equality Act 2010 and the way to make sure, in day after day exercise in personal space, that these with protected traits are handled equally and pretty

Communication and workforce working

  • Capability to speak advanced info clearly to a spread of audiences
  • Capability to work each independently and as a part of a workforce, and abilities in co-ordinating personal work with that of others to make sure efficient team-working
  • Capability to contribute to the administration and administration of IMPACT
  • Good planning, organisational and time-management abilities

Different

  • Dedication to co-production and engagement
  • Dedication to valuing the lived expertise of people that use providers and the sensible information of front-line employees

Fascinating Standards

{Qualifications}

  • A related skilled qualification and/or expertise in grownup social care

Information, abilities and expertise

  • Expertise of working with social care leaders, commissioners, suppliers and/or front-line employees
  • Expertise of analysis which influences coverage, apply and folks’s lives
  • Expertise of analysis which engages folks with lived expertise and their carers
  • Understanding of the completely different coverage and apply contexts in several components of the UK

Behaviours and Competencies

The position holder can be required to proof that they will meet the qualities related to the next behavioural competencies, as detailed inside the AUA Competency Framework.

  • Managing self and private abilities

Being conscious of your personal behaviour and conscious of the way it impacts on others, enhancing private abilities to adapt skilled apply accordingly. * Delivering wonderful service

Offering the highest quality service to exterior and inner shoppers. Constructing real and open long-term relationships in an effort to drive up service requirements.

  • Discovering options

Taking a holistic view and dealing enthusiastically to analyse issues and to develop workable options. Figuring out alternatives for innovation. * Embracing change

Being open to and interesting with new concepts and methods of working. Adjusting to unfamiliar conditions, shifting calls for and altering roles. * Utilizing sources successfully

Figuring out and making the most efficient use of sources together with folks, time, info, networks and budgets. * Partaking with the broader context

Enhancing your contribution to the organisation by an understanding of the larger image and displaying dedication to organisational values. * Growing self and others

Displaying dedication to personal ongoing skilled growth. Supporting and inspiring others to develop their skilled information, abilities and behaviours to allow them to achieve their full potential. * Working collectively

Working collaboratively with others in an effort to obtain goals. Recognising and valuing the completely different contributions folks deliver to this course of. * Attaining Outcomes

Constantly assembly agreed goals and success standards. Taking private duty for getting issues finished.

About Us

College of Social Sciences at Stirling

The College of Social Sciences (FSS) is an built-in multi-disciplinary workforce of educational {and professional} help employees with analysis and educating pursuits in sociology, social coverage, criminology, training, housing research, social work and dementia. Working collaboratively with college students, employees and stakeholders, the College present prime quality undergraduate and postgraduate training, in addition to skilled growth in all these areas by our interdisciplinary hyperlinks throughout the College and past.

Along with educating, social scientific analysis is undertaken within the College below the next headings: Crime and Justice; Baby Properly-being and Safety; Curriculum and Pedagogy; Dementia and Ageing; Schooling Concept/Follow; Public Companies and Governance; Social Surveys and Social Statistics; and Substance Use.

Full details about the College will be discovered right here:

The College

The College of Stirling is dedicated to offering training with a goal and finishing up analysis which has a optimistic influence on communities throughout the globe – addressing actual points, offering options, and serving to to form society. Stirling is 4th in Scotland and forty third within the UK for analysis influence, with 87% of its analysis having an impressive or very appreciable influence on society – and greater than 80% rated both world main or internationally wonderful (Analysis Excellence Framework 2021).

The College of Stirling is ranked among the many high 30 UK universities for scholar satisfaction (Nationwide Scholar Survey) and high 30 within the UK for postgraduate scholar expertise (Postgraduate Taught Expertise Survey), and has an general five-star ranking within the QS Stars College Scores.

Greater than 17,000 college students research with the College of Stirling globally, with over 140 nationalities represented on its scenic central Scotland campus alone. The College – additionally residence to 1,700 employees – is ranked first within the UK and high three on the earth for its campus setting (Worldwide Scholar Barometer 2022, wave two). Ranked first within the UK and high 5 on the earth for its sports activities amenities (Worldwide Scholar Barometer 2022, wave two), Stirling is Scotland’s College for Sporting Excellence. Its world-class amenities present the right coaching setting for the College’s sports activities students – lots of whom compete on the highest degree, together with on the Olympics and Commonwealth Video games – and for college students, employees, and the broader group.

The College has twice been recognised with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize – the primary for its Institute for Social Advertising and marketing and Well being (2014) and the second for its Institute of Aquaculture (2019).

The College is a signatory to the £214 million Stirling and Clackmannanshire Metropolis Area Deal and a central companion of the Forth Valley College School Well being Partnership.
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Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:27:51 GMT

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