IMPACT Demonstrator (Senior Strategic Improvement Coach)

We have 16 exciting opportunities to join our growing team at IMPACT as Demonstrators (Senior Strategic Improvement Coaches).

IMPACT is a UK-wide centre for implementing evidence in adult social care, with £15 million funding from 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 using services and their carers, and the practice knowledge of social care staff.

These roles have been created to work on our 2025/26 projects across the UK. These part-time roles will play a pivotal part in helping to demonstrate how evidence can be used in adult social care to improve services and lives.

The vacancy locations and topics are:

• Boosting employment for people with learning disabilities – Conwy County Borough Council, Wales
• Rethinking Home Care: Exploring flexible community care models in Wrexham – Wrexham County Borough Council, Wales
• Boosting reablement within intermediate care as part of a ‘home first’ place-based approach for people living with frailty – NHS Western Isles, Scotland
• Implementing a Self-Directed Support Evidenced Based Outcomes Tool in Northern Ireland – Southern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland
• Better support for aging carers of adults with a learning disability – DOH/HSCNI, Northern Ireland
• Embedding a research culture which empowers citizens and practitioners to lead co-production across Adult Social Care – Derbyshire County Council, England
• Supporting people affected by dementia to Live Well, through great everyday support – NHS Greater Manchester, England
• Developing models of community support (direct payments focus) – Calderdale Council, England

These posts will be recruited by one of IMPACT’s five university partners but located in a host organisation (a local service or social care organisation) across the four nations of the UK. Post holders will work with these organisations and with our delivery leads as well as IMPACT’s broader team of operational and strategic colleagues and Leadership Team.

The positions are offered at 0.5/50% FTE for 12 months, starting in September 2025.

Informal enquiries can be made to impactcentre@contacts.bham.ac.uk.