Social Work Research Lead | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £54,710 pa |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Longridge, PR3 3WQ |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7429066/351-CS2757-CL |
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As an experienced registered social worker, you will be responsible for furthering the research capacity building for social workers within Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS foundation trust, and the neighbouring organisations who host social workers. LSCft employ more than 260 social workers, and this post is the first of its kind, first established in 2023.
Your purpose will be to increase the engagement in research for social workers, building on the foundations created by the existing post holder. You will also deliver research engagement and research activities commissioned by external funders to internal and external staff and communities including service users.
You will contribute to establishing and embedding the brilliant basics pillars of practice for social workers within LSCft, and the continual embedding of a research culture in this profession.
You will be located within the social worker leadership team, and report directly to the senior Social Work Research Lead, Associate Directors and Directors for Social Work. Here you can increase your knowledge and experience, supported by an experience leadership team.
With this support, and that of the wider organisation, you will have opportunity to pursue your own research interests. Increasing research capacity and the development of evidence-based practice, which you will disseminate across the organisation, improving the outcomes and experience for those people accessing services from LSCft.
This role includes building upon the existing social work research infrastructure, which has been established for two years. It allows you to form and increase relationships with social workers across LSCft to inspire and excite them about participating in research.
You will be an experienced social worker, comfortable working with other social workers and professionals across a large geographical patch, and colleagues in Local Authorities and Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise organisations, including people who access those services.
You will be highly organised and able to prioritise competing tasks, often with tight deadlines.
You will be confident and competent presenting your outputs in written reports to national organisations, contributing to journal articles and blogs, and at conferences. You will support the coordination of the annual Social Work Research Conference hosted by LSCft.
You will be able to present research in an accessible and enticing way to colleagues, and understand the pressures of those in frontline roles, to tailor that approach to other Social Workers. You will be committed to your own Continuous Professional Development, taking up opportunities to address own knowledge gaps and increase confidence in research engagement and delivery.
You will be invested in the importance of research to create and improve evidence base to improve the lives of those people accessing service, and how services are shaped and delivered.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Sep 2025