Community Engagement and Involvement Officer; Clinical Research

The post holder will coordinate public contributor involvement, community engagement, communications, meetings, training and events across the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) and the Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC). They will lead on developing relationships with communities, community organisations and the voluntary sector to support the Public Patient Involvement Engagement (PPIE) and Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Manager in delivering the PPIE and EDI strategy.

The post holder will offer support to initiatives aimed at increasing awareness of research, improving access to research opportunities and promoting inclusive participation amongst underserved communities. They will contribute to the collection of impact and activity data, support reporting requirements and assist in the development of communication materials that showcase the value of public involvement and community engagement in research.

• Be responsible for supporting the planning and delivery of community engagement

activities, outreach events and awareness campaigns and attend those events.

• Develop and maintain relationships with VCFSE organisations

Assist with and attend engagement activities aimed at improving participation in

research amongst underserved communities

• Assist in addressing inclusivity and diversity within research participation and community engagement.
• Leading on gathering feedback from communities and public contributors and support its incorporation into service improvement and further research activity General
• Compiling data and reports for Research Governance purposes.
• Monitoring the PPIE inbox.
• Enter attendance, demographic data and feedback into computerized systems.
• Support other teams, and key stakeholders as required.
• Maintain stocks of merchandise and order when necessary

O Arrange meetings and workshops.

• Prepare agendas and papers.
• Take minutes and monitor actions.
• Support annual showcase events.
• Make recommendations for process improvement and support with implementation of change as required.
• Assist and develop recruitment information on the CRF/CRDC website and social media accounts.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Act as a key point of contact for public contributors and research volunteers.
• Suport the recruitment, onboarding and retention of public contributors and volunteers.
• Arranging and co-ordinating bi-monthly PPIE group meetings including distribution of papers prior to planned meetings.
• Taking minutes and progressing actions at the PPIE group meetings.
• Arranging and supporting inclusive and accessible PPIE events and campaigns including booking, advertising and attendance.
• Processing payments to patient contributors in line with the local processes and NIHR guidance, The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time.
  
  Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary…