Public Involvement Officer

This is an exciting, and varied post for a self-motivated and enthusiastic public involvement professional. You will be working as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HealthTech Research Centre in Devices, digital and robotics (HRC-DDR) based jointly at the University Hospitals of Birmingham and University of Birmingham. You will be an active member of the core HRC-DDR team, specifically supporting Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) activities and Public Involvement Lead to deliver the Centre’s HRC-DDR PPIE Strategy 2024-2029.

The HRC-DDR drives life-changing research into health technologies, working in collaboration with patients, charities, academia, clinicians, and industry. The HRC-DDR’s core areas of research include Medical Devices, Digital and Data and Robots and Autonomous Systems led by world class academics.

Your role will be to effectively deliver a range of projects and utilise your coordination and administrative skills to ensure the smooth running of PPIE activities across the HRC-DDR. Working with the Public Involvement Lead, you will plan and deliver public meetings and events to showcase the Centre’s research to a range of people and communities. You will lead public involvement communications both internally and externally, support recruitment of new volunteers and liaise with our public contributors to accommodate their needs, maximising their ability to be involved in research. In addition, you will undertake a wide range of other administrative duties such as meeting planning and note taking, co-ordinating and delivering finance tasks, maintaining accurate PPIE records and organising a range of documentation and toolkits to be shared across our PPIE Community.

Person Specification

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent qualifications). Where no equivalent qualification is held, significant practical relevant experience and expertise in a similar role will be required.
• Knowledge of Standards for Public Involvement in Research.
• Previous experience of supporting Public Involvement or engagement activity.
• Significant practical experience in a similar role, experience of using project management tools.
• Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly, and to analyse information and data.
• Highly proficient IT skills, including the wider MS Office suite of programmes including excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to understand policy, processes and procedures, but also to recommend improvements and implement changes.
• Excellent analytical skills used to produce reports, identify issues and resolve them decisively.

Informal enquiries to Hannah Rooney, email: h.rooney@bham.ac.uk

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