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Essential
10 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills and Competencies
Excellent oral and written communication skills with proven presentation and scientific report writing skills
- Skills and Competencies
Able to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Skills and Competencies
Able to work under own initiative, respond to sudden unexpected demands whilst maintaining a professional, calm and efficient manner
- Skills and Competencies
Eye for accuracy and detail
- Skills and Competencies
Ability to work to tight timescales
- Knowledge and Experience
Significant postgraduate experience of knowledge mobilisation approaches
- Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge of UK health research environment and experience with working with multiple stakeholders to facilitate evidence into policy and practice
- Knowledge and Experience
Awareness of barriers and facilitators to knowledge mobilisation
- Knowledge and Experience
Understanding of information governance including data protection and confidentiality requirements
- Education and Qualification
Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent level of experience
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Competencies
Experience in designing, organising, facilitating and evaluating knowledge sharing events such as stakeholder meetings, webinars, community forums and other engagement activities
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in or knowledge of project management approaches
- Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge of relevant public health networks, knowledge mobilisation networks and/or health protection research community
- Knowledge and Experience
An appreciation of knowledge mobilisation theories and how they can be operationalised. Understanding of implementation science methodology
- Education and Qualification
Educated to PhD level or equivalent level of experience
Job overview
The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria (NENC) are looking for a Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow to join the ARC team.
The ARC NENC has been awarded additional funding from NIHR to build knowledge mobilisation capacity and capability within the health and social care system to get effective treatments and models of care into practice, thereby maximising the impact of research.
Find out more about this funding.
Main duties of the job
To help deliver the Knowledge Mobilisation agenda in close collaboration with the NENC Integrated Care Board (ICB), we are looking to appoint a Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow to join the ARC’s core team, and work collaboratively with Embedded Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows working across the North East and North Cumbria health and care system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work with colleagues across the NENC health and care system to mobilise evidence across four priority areas for the Integrated Care System (Longer, healthier lives; Fairer outcomes for everyone; Better health and care services, and; Giving our children the best start in life) aligned to the ARC's themes.
Support the benefits realisation of ARC NENC research by monitoring emerging evidence in priority policy areas (see above) and making this information easily digestible for decision makers and stakeholders.
Undertake knowledge mobilisation work in sprints (6-12 months) to inform key decisions in the health and care system, providing the right information to the right people at the right time. Sprint activity may include: rapid evidence reviews, round-table events with stakeholders and public members, identification of adoption ready research and innovation, strengthening relationships in the region, and presenting relevant evidence in the right context.
Working with colleagues in the national KM Network to identify research and innovation developed in NENC that are ready for roll-out in other regions or ready for wider adoption. Similarly, the post holder will identify adoption ready research and innovations from other ARCs and Health Innovation Networks that are relevant to NENC ICS.
Consult with public members through the ARC NENC Public Involvement and Community Engagement (PICE) network on priority setting (for the sprints), implementation and mobilising evidence into practice.
Actively integrate with existing implementation and knowledge mobilisation initiatives in the region, including the ARC NENC Impact and Implementation Special Interest Group, Boost, Embedded Researchers in Local Councils (ERIC) network, Knowledge Mobilisation Alliance, KNOW-PH, the NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination.
Champion the role of Knowledge Mobilisation in the region by engaging with relevant stakeholders and networks, and work closely with our community of practice fellows, dementia, social care and mental health fellows, who are research champions in their respective teams and organisations, and will be key in championing KM more widely.
Actively engage with the KM Network and cross ARC network of KM Fellows and support research brokerage within and across ARCs. Collect data on how the evidence mobilised is being used. This could take the form of reflective diaries, observation notes at meetings, document analysis and follow-up interviews with stakeholders to track where the evidence flows within organisations and how confident they are in using data and information to inform decisions. Based on this information, construct ‘outcomes changes’ for the evidence mobilised and the impact achieved.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 1st September 2026
Closing date : 15th September 2026
We welcome your application.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Research practitioner role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata. The contract type is 54 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 15 Sep 2026.
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