About the role

This role offers the opportunity to work within a passionate and dedicated team. With a focus on service improvement and policy influencing, you’ll contribute to a Wales where older people can live independently in homes that meet their needs.

Based in the Policy and Insights Team, this post will:

• provide expertise in best practice models for housing adaptations and other services.
• contribute to Care & Repair service evaluation, best practice support and development, research and policy influencing, and help maintain a strong profile among policy makers, partners and stakeholders.

Key Tasks 

• Undertake research, policy and good practice development work to improve housing adaptation services across Care & Repair; including Rapid Response Adaptations (RRAP), Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG), Enable and other housing adaptation programmes.
• Highlight the housing needs of older people, service gaps and appropriate housing adaptation service solutions to meet those needs, through mixed-method research to include desk based, primary research, client insights, and analysing data from the Care & Repair database. Provide reports, information, articles and regular updates on those findings.
• Monitor and analyse the changing Welsh, UK and wider policy environment relevant to older people and housing adaptations and their use and impact across Housing, health, and social care.
• Work closely with the Head of Policy and Insights, wider Care & Repair Cymru and Care & Repair Agencies to identify best practice, new technology, effective service delivery models and innovation across all our services.
• Develop best practice guides, Housing Adaptation staff Networks and other methods of sharing and replicating good practice across Wales.
• Prepare reports and written briefings for CRC senior managers, CRC Board of Trustees, Care & Repair Agencies and wider stakeholders, to ensure they are kept informed and updated on service improvement findings, recommendations, and proposals to replicate across Care & Repair.
• Engage with the Welsh Government Health and Housing team to share information that may need to feed into any adaptations reviews ongoing from time to time.
• Attend and represent CRC at policy, research and service improvement events including Cross Party Groups, third sector alliance meetings, inquiries, seminars, workshops and Conferences.
• Identify and develop good working relationships and strategic partnerships with relevant organisations, networks and individuals involved in housing adaptation services across Care & Repair, Housing, Health, Social Care and the third sector.
• Prepare Care & Repair Cymru responses to Welsh Government and UK Government policy, legislation and other consultations, working closely with Care & Repair Agencies to ensure key service issues and impacts on older people are included.
• Provide clear, concise, contemporary content relating to the work of this role, for internal and external publications including website, social media, print media, briefing papers, press releases, leaflets, fact sheets etc.Below you will find the full Job Pack for this role.

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