Closing Date: 8th October 2025.
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 9th October 2025.
Interview expected to take place: commencing 27th October 2025.
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our Centre for Co-production and Peer Research (CoPPeR) network to help us advance our Patient and Public Involvement and Co-production approaches in two programmes of work.
Due to current home office guidelines, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is unable to provide sponsorship as part of this role.
Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (YHARC). We are looking to appoint someone with confidence, strong organisational and communication skills, who pays close attention to detail. The ideal candidate will work well in a team and independently. They will be based in the Bradford Institute for Health Research and will work on a variety of projects with a focus on advancing community inclusive approaches.
The successful candidate will be great at developing, maintaining, and strengthening relationships, to obtain valuable involvement experiences. They will be able to think creatively to solve problems, be able to adapt what they share to match the needs of audiences and communicate findings in a suitable way for all stakeholders.
This role will be focused on working with community organisations and members of the general public to expand our co-production and public involvement approaches. It will involve supporting services to share best practice across a range of forums both within the CRDC and the YHARC. This will include supporting local involvement and engagement strategies and involvement opportunities and promoting networks through a variety of approaches and channels.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of two major National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) programmes and to advance our ambitions to work with a variety of community groups from the Yorkshire and Humber region. This opportunity will suit a self-motivated and dynamic individual who can work across a broad range of sectors to ensure community voices are embedded in (i) the NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre: Bradford and West Yorkshire and (ii) the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role.