Employer: Action Together CIO
Location: Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
Pay: £24,869.00 to £26,262.00 per year, Full Time Equivalent Salary: £34,434–£36,363 NJC: SO1 23-25
Contract Type: Temporary
Closing Date: 12/06/2026
About this job
We connect people with what’s happening in their community, develop community ideas into action, strengthen local organisations, and provide strategic influence for the charity and voluntary sector.
The Action Together team is vital in achieving the charity's purpose
- to maximise opportunities to create positive social change; promote social justice and harness social benefit; and to strengthen the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector.
We're looking for people who share our values to join our team.
The Research Officer will lead and support research and engagement activity for Healthwatch Tameside. This includes managing data collection and reporting systems, gathering and analysing feedback from people using health and social care services, and producing high‑quality research reports for Healthwatch projects. The role involves regular monitoring of intelligence collated from local health and social care users in order to identify areas of best practice and improvement within the NHS and local authority, as well as working with the Signposting Service, including managing selected cases received by the team.
The ideal candidate is an experienced qualitative researcher with a sound understanding of quantitative methods, able to analyse information critically and confidently present clear findings. You will be an excellent communicator, with strong written and verbal skills, comfortable working in a small team and alongside volunteers. You will be sensitive to the context of health and social care and skilled in using engaging, robust approaches to present information that reflects the lived experiences of service users.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: At Action Together we value diversity, promote equity and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to ensuring that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race.
Right to work: We do not hold a Sponsor License and are unable to accept applications which require sponsorship to work in the UK. The successful candidates will be required to undertake a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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