Public Engagement Involvement and Co-production Associate

Job description: We have an exciting role available at the School for Social Care Research (SSCR) and the ESRC Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield as our Public Engagement and Involvement (PEI) and Co-Production Associate! SSCR brings together the Universities of Sheffield, York, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leeds Beckett and the London School of Economics to develop the evidence base to inform and improve adult social care practice. Our team is a collaboration between the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Health, and part of a wide portfolio of care research, which includes the Centre for Care , the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE), and the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR). The work of SSCR is guided by core principles of co-production, collaboration and impact. By embedding co-production in everything we do, our research is informed by the expertise of our practice partners and people with lived experience of requiring or providing care. Your work will span the SSCR and Centre for Care to support and improve our public engagement and involvement and co-production activities. We encourage candidates with lived experience of care, either as people who seek or use care or as people who work in practice, and those experienced in co-production with people who seek or use care or social care professionals. Key Responsibilities Coordinate the public engagement and involvement, and co-production activities across the SSCR by working with people with lived experience, social care practitioners, the SSCR leadership team, professional services colleagues and people working in social care and other partner organisations Be the main point of contact for our partners with lived experience and be responsible for maintaining excellent working relationships Promote public engagement and involvement, co-production and impact throughout the work of the SSCR by developing strong relationships with partners Support the development of public engagement and involvement co-production methods (such as the development of accessible information and research methods, working in collaboration with partners, seeking their advice and acting on it and establishing and maintaining good relationships with partners ) in the work of the SSCR by working closely with members of the public, social care practitioners and academics. Support academic colleagues to work with people who have lived experience, social care practitioners (and vice-versa) to deliver co-designed research and impact activity, such as co-producing research design, delivery and analysis Organise and facilitate workshops and focus groups with partners For more, please see the full job description. Why Join Us? The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university. We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions' scheme, flexible working opportunities,a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more. Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special. We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to the greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.