Position Details
School of Social Work and Social Care, College of Social Sciences
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413.
Grade 7
Part Time – 18.75 hours per week (0.5 FTE)
Fixed Term contract for 12 months, target start date September 2025
Closing date: Redeployees: Monday 3rd March 2025 (Interviews will likely be held between 17th and 21st March 2025)
Closing date: External applicants - Tuesday 1st April 2025 (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.
Our offer to you
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high-quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum, and botanical gardens.
Our Vacancies
We have 8 amazing opportunities to join our growing team as IMPACT Facilitators. 3 of these will be based at the University of Birmingham 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.
To apply, you must:
1. Send a CV and cover letter to impactcentre@contacts.bham.ac.uk, clearly detailing the role, project and location you are applying for in the subject of the email. Your cover letter should be no more than two sides of A4, drawing attention to the key skills, values, and experiences you would bring to the role, if successful, and the ways in which your CV to date fits with the requirements of the role.
2. Complete our mandatory additional information form: https://forms.office.com/e/gDdFpXD9cX. Applicants that do not complete the form will not be considered.
Informal enquiries can be sent to impactcentre@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
THE POST
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 Monday and Friday, 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 support for people who are LGBTQ+, London, England (1 role)
* Support for carers of older people, Newcastle, England (1 role)
* Care and support for people who are experiencing homelessness, North West England (1 role)
These roles are open to redeployment candidates at the University of Birmingham. All 8 roles across the UK will be advertised externally during March 2025.
Further information about IMPACT can be found at IMPACT - UK Centre to Improve Adult Social Care - IMPACT.
The University is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice, therefore all associated pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. 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.
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.
(* at least one person from a black and minority ethnic community background will be shortlisted where they meet the essential criteria for the role)
Please see here for the full job description.
View our staff values and behaviours here.
We believe there is no such thing as a 'typical' member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability, which is a key part of our strategy. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyone on our website.
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