About usNIHR ARC North Thames is a partnership of over 60 organisations from across North Central and North East London, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.These organisations include leading universities, the NHS, councils, patients, communities, charities and industry who share a commitment to improving health and social care services, and people’s health.Working together, we identify the key health and care problems facing organisations in our partnership, design innovative research in response and rapidly put findings into practice across our region and beyond.About the roleThe purpose of this role is to support the communications and patient, public and community engagement functions of National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North Thames.You’ll help increase awareness and engagement with the NIHR ARC North Thames’ research, training and patient and public engagement activities and outputs among our audiences, including our partners and collaborators.Secondment Only post.About youWe are seeking a motivated and experienced individual to support the day-to-day communications of the ARC’s individual research projects, as well as its over-all aims and activities. You'll have previous experience in communications, ideally making research accessible to non-technical audiences, and managing web and social media accounts.What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
41 days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
Immigration loan and expenses
Relocation scheme for certain posts
On-Site nursery
On-site gym
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent.We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver Award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here :Available documents
