Child, Young People and Family Involvement Worker - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Cardiff University

Cardiff University
Cardiff University
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Cardiff, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Key Duties

  • Recruit, support and train children, young people, parents or carers to be part of research involvement groups at CASCADE. Specifically leading on the established CASCADE research advisory groups.
  • Design and deliver engaging and appropriate sessions to meaningfully involve our groups and others in feedback, collaboration or coproduction in research.
  • Provide professional advice, guidance and support on public involvement to internal and external researchers, using initiative and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action involving members of the public in research projects; particularly those with social care experience. Ensuring that complex and conceptual issues are understood, and proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
  • Analysis of public involvement session for reporting and impact.
  • Ensure that the provision of involvement is delivered ethically, meaningful and in line with guidance and legislation, supported by the Engagement Manager.
  • Collaborate with others in order to make recommendations for developments of established processes and procedures.
  • Establish working relationships with key internal and external contacts, developing appropriate communication links with organisations that work with children, young people, parents and carers or have an influence on public involvement at a national level.
  • Present and publicise CASCADE public involvement work at a national and international level.
  • Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.

General Duties

  • Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
  • Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
  • Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

  • Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience.
  • Substantial experience of working with children, young people or families in an engagement, participatory or public involvement role.
  • Able to demonstrate professional knowledge or current literature on engagement, participation and public involvement in child participation and coproduction in order to give advice, guidance and training to internal and external researchers.
  • Good understanding of social science or health research.
  • Demonstrable awareness of social care issues particularly in relation to children, young people and their families.
  • Ability to communicate complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
  • Evidence of ability to adapt to the needs of individuals (children, young people or families).
  • Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.
  • Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.
  • A willingness to undertake further training and development.

Desirable Criteria

  • Postgraduate/Professional qualification.
  • Experience within Children's Social Care (professional or lived experience of child and family social work).
  • Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.




IMPORTANT:
Evidencing Criteria- Please note that these are also the criteria shortlisted applicants will be assessed against at interview and/or by other means (e.g. a skills test).


Additional Information

Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)


CASCADE is concerned with all aspects of community responses to social need in children and families, including family support services, children in need services, child protection, looked after children and adoption.

It aims first and foremost to improve the well-being and safety of children and their families by:


  • Generating primary research evidence of an internationally recognised high quality.
  • Making the results of this research, and research produced elsewhere, available in an accessible form for children and families who receive social care services, professionals and policymakers.
  • Developing social care research capacity in Wales by providing opportunities for researchers from undergraduate through to senior career stages.
  • Engaging a range of collaborators in research, including children and young people, parents and carers, practitioners, policymakers and social care providers from the public, private and third sectors.
    Salary Range Min.
  • 32,332

Salary Range Max.

  • 34,980

Job Category

  • Management & Executive

Grade

  • Grade 5
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