Co-Production Lead; Part Time

Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic, and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities. Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do.

Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.

We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, as well as affordable housing, good schools, beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!

Liverpool’s Adult Social Care Service has high ambitions and are on an improvement journey to become outstanding. We have an inspirational leadership team who have a fresh vision, dedicated to driving practice forward. It’s an exciting time to join us and be part of that change.

You will have experience of leading engagement and co-production across health, social care, voluntary or public sector organisations, with excellent communication, writing and relationship-building skills. You will be a creative and ideas-driven individual, able to develop innovative approaches to engagement, translate insight into action, and communicate complex information clearly to a range of audiences.

Working closely with colleagues across the Council, stakeholders and local communities, you will lead and support co-production projects that bring together staff and people with lived experience to shape meaningful change. You will be confident in gathering, analysing and interpreting feedback, research and insight to identify themes, inform decision-making and ensure services are shaped by what matters most to the people who use them.

This role requires a flexible approach to working hours, and the postholder may occasionally be required to work outside normal office hours to meet the needs of people with lived experience and support inclusive engagement activities.

This is a part-time post, expected to be worked over three days per week. The specific working pattern and days will be discussed at interview.

• Lead the development and delivery of the Adult Social Care and Health co-production framework, supporting services to embed co-production principles and practices consistently across the Directorate.
• Champion a culture of co-production, ensuring residents, carers, communities and staff are actively involved in shaping services, policies and improvement activity.
• Build and maintain effective relationships across the Council, partner organisations and local communities to support collaboration and strengthen co-production.
• Lead and support inclusive co-production and engagement activity across service improvement, transformation, commissioning and operational programmes.
• Work with voluntary, community, faith and cultural organisations to widen participation and ensure diverse voices, particularly those less often heard, influence decision-making.
• Use feedback, insight, research and lived experience to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate impact and inform future service development.
• Promote innovation and best practice, keeping abreast of emerging

• At least 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays rising to 32 after 5 years’ service…