Redeployment and internal candidates: Interviews will likely be held between 17th and 21st March 2025. External candidates: Interviews will likely be held between 6th and 15th May 2025. Shortlisted candidates invited to online interview will be asked to prepare a short presentation about the challenges and opportunities of the role and project they are applying to. Due to the nature of the work undertaken in this role, all successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory DBS clearance prior to appointment., Positions are offered at 50% FTE for 12 months. While successful candidates may wish to be directly employed by a lead University, the nature of the roles also makes them ideal for possible secondments from policy, practice or applied research. Typically, posts are physically located in the host organisation (a local service or social care organisation) across the four nations. Post holders will work with these organisations, as detailed below, and with our Facilitator co-leads Karen Watchman and Kathryn Mackay - as well as IMPACT's broader team and other partners. While these are part-time posts (with preferred working patterns between Mon-Fri, open to mutual agreement), successful applicants will be expected to attend fortnightly meetings with the broader IMPACT team where possible - these are held on Monday mornings (11am-12), for one hour. THE TOPICS AND LOCATIONS

• Improving staff retention - Pontypridd, Based in a host organisation (see IMPACT website), and with the support of IMPACT's national Facilitator lead and other team members, co-design/deliver an evidence-informed improvement project, and participate as required in IMPACT's internal evaluation. [Reviews of the evidence are typically conducted by other members of the team ahead of projects starting, but some projects can sometimes involve additional reviewing and synthesis, with support]
• Share learning from the project with others and support the embedding of lessons learned in policy and practice across the UK
• Be a full member of the IMPACT team, taking part in team meetings, informally contributing skills and experience to other aspects of IMPACT's work as appropriate and helping to distil lessons that can shape IMPACT's future ways of working
• Share lessons around what helps and hinders the implementation of evidence-informed approaches in front-line practice with IMPACT colleagues and other audiences, contributing to the future evidence base
• Work with a fellow Facilitator to carry out an evaluation of the impact of their project (with this Facilitator doing the same with your project)
• Ensure that the project applies evidence from research, practice knowledge and lived experience; meets the needs of the host organisation; and engages extensively with key stakeholders in the process of change (including people who draw on care and support, carers and front-line care workers)
• Work sensitively with issues of power, ensuring the inclusion of people whose voices are seldom heard
• Champion and operationalise IMPACT's commitment to co-production, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Apply and develop knowledge in a way that develops new intellectual understanding in the fields of social care and implementation, through a process of learning by doing
• Disseminate lessons learned and findings to a diverse audience in creative and impactful ways, Successful candidates will also need to demonstrate that they can apply these skills within the context and topic of the project in question (they don't need to be subject experts, but do need to be credible with the host organisation and partners, and show that they could work effectively within the specifics of the project to implement evidence-informed change).
IMPACT is the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Health Foundation. IMPACT draws on knowledge from different types of research, the lived experience of people who draw on care and support and carers, and the practice knowledge of social care staff. IMPACT Facilitators work in a specific local organisation or system to help get evidence of what works used in practice to make a difference to services and to people's lives. To do this, they co-design an evidence-informed change project, work with diverse stakeholders to implement the project in practice, share learning with others and evaluate the project of another Facilitator. Cardiff Business School Cardiff Business School is a leading business and management school in the UK, holding AACSB and AMBA accreditations and ranked 1st for its Research Environment and 2nd on Research Power (REF2021). The School has a Public Value purpose and focuses on the co-creation of high quality, interdisciplinary education and knowledge that delivers economic, social and environmental value. The School's activities are oriented towards five : Decent work, fair and sustainable economies, future organisations, good governance, and responsible innovation. DORA declaration Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: Career Pathway Research

As part of IMPACT's commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion we are particularly keen to receive applications from people from black and minority ethnic communities and will be operating the 'Rooney' rule
• . We are also keen to receive applications from people who have lived experience of drawing on care and support, are carers or are front-line practitioners, as well as from people who have experience of working with groups whose voices are seldom heard. We value diversity and inclusion at IMPACT and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.
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• at least one person from a black and minority ethnic community background will be shortlisted where they meet the essential criteria for the role), First degree of a good standard relevant to this area of practice OR equivalent professional qualification OR sufficient experience to demonstrate connected knowledge and skills
• An understanding of public policy, public services, front-line practice and/or the realities of people's lives - including of factors that enable or prevent change in such settings
• Experience of applied research and/or the implementation of innovation/new ways of working within a social care or related area of practice and policy. We recognise that candidates from applied research backgrounds may need more support to develop the skills to implement evidence in practice, while candidates from practice and policy backgrounds may need more support to work with different types of evidence
• A strong commitment to the principles of co-production and to embedding these in all aspects of their work
• Excellent presentation skills, both verbal and written, with an ability to communicate effectively with a range of different social care stakeholders including people and communities, practitioners, managers, academics and policy makers
• High level of personal organisation and motivation
• Collaborative and flexible approach to work and excellent inter-personal skills
• An awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses and an ability to work reflexively
• Good skills in building networks with others (possibly including people who draw on care and support, carers, practitioners, managers, policy makers, researchers and others)
  
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School / Directorate Cardiff Business School Advert IMPACT Facilitator IMPACT - the UK centre for Improving Adult Care Together Our Vacancies We have 24 amazing opportunities to join our growing team, as IMPACT Facilitators and as Senior Strategic Improvement Coaches (Demonstrators). 5 of these will be based at Cardiff University in 2025-26. As IMPACT moves into the third year of its delivery phase, these exciting roles have been created to work on our 2025-26 projects. Successful candidates will play a pivotal part in helping to get evidence of what works used in adult social care to improve services and lives., Facilitators (8 roles across the UK, 1 hosted at Cardiff University)
• Part time 0.5/50%
• Fixed term contract (12 months, target start date September 2025)
• Salary: Min - £33,232 Max - £45,413 FTE (50% for this post)