Empowerment Charity Lancashire Blackpool Researching Together Senior Co-researcher Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom Blackpool Researching Together is a collaborative research project including partners such as Blackpool Council, The National Institute for Health and Care Research, Boing Boing Foundation, Healthwatch Blackpool and Lancaster University. The Senior Co-researcher will have a passion for working within a research environment alongside communities and work within the Blackpool Researching Together team to lead, develop and support Healthwatch Blackpool’s community co-researchers. We are looking for someone who can maintain co-researcher responsibilities, whilst supporting community co-researchers to be at the heart of the project and fully involved in building research capacity in Blackpool. The individual must have experience of working with people who are utilising their lived experience within their role. Main Responsibilities · To manage, supervise, develop and support our team of community co-researchers to allow them to flourish in their role. · To conduct appraisal and probation reviews for all community co-researchers. · To collaborate with the team and wider partners to design and implement co-research in our town. · To think innovatively about how we do our work, which may include creative ideas and change of current approaches. · To support community co-researchers when conducting focused research activity, which may include data collection and analysis. To view the full job description please click here Applications close at 5pm on Monday 7th July 2025. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 15th July 2025. Apply For This Job If you would like to apply for this position, please fill in the information below and submit it to us for consideration.