Buckinghamshire Council
Community Engagement & User Experience Officers
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Overview
We're looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Community Engagement & User Experience Officer to support our new Learning Disability programme of work, on a fixed-term contract until 31st March 2027.
We are also looking for a permanent full-time Community Engagement Officer & User Experience Officer to join our outstanding Quality, Standards & Practice team.
About Us
Make a real difference to Adult Social Care by ensuring residents' voices and lived experiences shape the services they use. Working alongside dedicated colleagues and partners, you'll help deliver person-centred services through meaningful collaboration, engagement, and co-production.
Our exciting permanent role combines digital and physical content and communications, community engagement, coproduction, and user experience to help ensure residents, families, and carers can shape adult social care services and easily access the information, advice, guidance, and support they need.
About The Role
For the fixed-term role until 31st March
Working across a new Learning Disability programme of work, you'll coordinate engagement and coproduction activities, ensuring resident lived experience shapes service development and improvement. You'll build partnerships, facilitate inclusive participation, and demonstrate how feedback drives meaningful change.
For the Permanent role
You will play a key role in strengthening coproduction and ensuring that the voices of people with lived experience are at the heart of Adult Social Care. You will build and maintain relationships with our online and in-person forum communities, local resident groups, faith organisations, and other community networks, creating opportunities for residents to share their lived experiences and perspectives. Through regular engagement and coproduction activities, you will gather valuable feedback to help shape service delivery, influence decision making, and drive continuous improvement across Adult Social Care.
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What You'll Be Doing
Lead engagement and coproduction activities, building relationships with people with lived experience, families, carers, community groups, providers, and partners, while facilitating inclusive workshops and events.
- Gather and analyse feedback, monitor impact, support governance and decision-making processes, and help evidence service improvements through person-centred, coproduced approaches.
Promote a culture of co-production, ensuring lived experience feedback from residents, carers, and families influences service design and improvement.
- Develop, strengthen, and manage accessible information, advice, and guidance.
- Deliver inclusive engagement activities, coproduction forums, and community outreach initiatives.
- Manage and develop website content to ensure it is accessible, accurate, engaging, and user-focused.
About You
You will be passionate about coproduction, community engagement, and ensuring the voices of people with lived experience shape service delivery and improvement. Successful candidates will have strong communication and relationship-building skills, experience engaging with diverse stakeholders, and the ability to develop accessible communications, analyse feedback and insights, and use engagement activity to drive positive outcomes for residents, service users, and communities.
Key requirements:
- Engagement and coproduction expertise with experience working alongside residents, service users, carers, community representatives, and partner organisations to influence service development and improvement.
- Excellent communication and digital skills, including creating engaging content, reports, presentations, accessible materials, website and social media management, and delivering forums or engagement programmes.
- Strong organisational and analytical abilities, with experience gathering and interpreting feedback, using data and analytics to inform decisions, managing competing priorities, and promoting equality, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in all aspects of engagement.
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Other information
For more information about this role, please contact Laura Lloyd at [email protected] for an informal discussion.
Closing date: 22nd September 2026
Interview Date: w/c 28th September 2026
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e., that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering, please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
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