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City, university of london - nursing.

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

The culture at City is built on our shared core values, which means that all employees are expected to behave according to our values: “We care, We learn, We act.”

Based in the Centre for Mental Health Research at City, University of London, the research project aims to evaluate two government pilots to inform future decisions about the commissioning of Independent Mental Health Act Advocacy (IMHA).

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time (0.7 FTE) service user/ survivor researcher to work as a research assistant within a multi-disciplinary team, bringing a lived experience perspective of racism, and/or mental distress (or using mental health services) to a national evaluation of Culturally Appropriate Advocacy (CAA) pilots funded by the National Institute of Health Research.

Responsibilities

The main purpose of the research assistant role will be undertaking qualitative research. The post holder will help undertake and analyse qualitative interviews and will play a key role in liaising with mental healthcare professionals, advocates and mental health service users at one or both pilot sites. Another key responsibility will be contributing to the write up of the research findings.

Person Specification

We are looking for a candidate with a first degree in health or social science or equivalent professional experience, with experience of undertaking research from a lived experience perspective. Experience of conducting high quality research with people with mental health problems and collaborating with lived experience advisory groups is essential.

Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date for applications: 31st March 2024 at 11:59pm

Interviews are scheduled for week commencing 15th April 2024.

The role is available from 07th May or earlier by negotiation.

Subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way. This involves a combination of working on campus and at home each week.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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Research Assistant (BRC) in the Department of Psychology

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Job description

We have an exciting position for a research assistant to work on several projects that highlight the involvement of people with lived experience and to support the BRC advisory groups. Projects require both qualitative and quantitative skills and are varied. For example, ongoing projects include, how service users can influence projects, the effects of digital therapies and how data are shared. The postholder will also support service users research advisory groups within the Patient and Carer Involvement Theme of the Biomedical Research Centre (maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk). ​The work is varied and will require some flexibility in time allocation and in type of research. Individuals with first-hand experience of using mental health services are encouraged to apply.

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

This is a full-time  post - 100% full time equivalent.

Key responsibilities

• ​​To conduct research within the BRC remit and help with ongoing research projects in the BRC PPIE theme 
• ​​To help facilitate (and develop) Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in research within the BRC and across the IoPPN.  
• ​To help coordinate PPI groups for researchers (for example, the FAST-R service and the YPMHAG).  
• ​To extend methods developed within the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) to develop service-user generated outcome measures.  
• ​Work independently, manage your workload and meet deadlines.   
• ​Undertake administrative duties as required.  
• ​To engage mental health service users in research.  

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience 

Essential criteria  

1.       First degree in psychology or social sciences    

2.       Knowledge of quantitative data collection and analysis methods   

3.       Knowledge of qualitative data collection and analysis methods   

4.       Experience of working as part of a team   

5.       Experience of working with people who have used mental health services   

6.       Excellent communication skills   

7.       Ability to engage others   

8.       Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the research   

9.       An interest in mental health   

Desirable criteria

1.   Post graduate qualification   

2.   Personal experience of using mental health services   

3.   Experience of developing and delivering Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) activities/events (in a research context)   

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearance.

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org .

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers .

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ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and physical health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things.  We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton.  We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.  We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, and were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work.  This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

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Research assistant.

Closed for applications on: 22-Jan-2024 00:02

Vacancy status: Closed

Key details

Contract type & working pattern.

• Flexible working

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic research assistant to carry out tasks for the NIHR funded study: “Improving quality of life and behaviour that challenges in people with mild to moderate intellectual disability through person-centred solution focused communication (ICONIC).”

This study will take place over 66 months. In this programme of research, we are aiming to adapt and evaluate the effectiveness of DIALOG+ for people with intellectual disability. DIALOG+ is a brief, low cost solution focused intervention that improves the therapeutic effectiveness of routine clinical meetings between clinicians and patients, by using existing resources. DIALOG+ has been shown to be effective in improving quality of life in people with psychosis and other mental health conditions.

The applicant will assist in conducting literature reviews and writing papers for publication.

The applicant will be responsible for supporting the recruitment of participants with intellectual disability from NHS services across London and possibly from other regions on England and therefore should be willing to travel (travel expended will be covered). 

The role will involve undertaking consent procedures and conducting baseline and follow-up assessments (completing questionnaires with participants). The applicant will also carry out qualitative interviews with people with intellectual disability, carers and clinicians and will be involved in the analysis of qualitative data.

Working for our organisation

The Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry (USCP) is part of the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (Queen Mary University of London) and supported by East London NHS Foundation Trust. It is located in the London Borough of Newham, in East London. Since 2012, the Unit is a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre (the only one specifically for Mental Health Service Development worldwide), and since 2022 it hosts a NIHR Global Health Research Centre for the Community Treatment of Long-Term Conditions. The research is multi-disciplinary, aims to innovate and involves the development and testing of novel interventions in mental health care. Since 2013, the Unit has generated more than £40m competitive research, mostly from the National Institute for Health Research, the European Commission and the Medical Research Council. Currently, the Unit consists of about 35 full time researchers, PhD students, and managerial/administrative staff.

The applicant will have a substantive contract with ELFT and an honorary contract with QMUL. The two organisations work collaboratively and have a close working relationship.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To identify and recruit potential participants for the programme according to the protocol and guidelines, through liaison with community learning disability teams and social care organisations, to assist staff, if required, in providing information so that patients and carers can make informed decisions about their participation.
• Undertake informed consent procedures employing role-play and preparing scripts about how to talk to professionals and potential participants about the study.
• Conduct face to face assessment interviews using structured questionnaires. Conduct baseline and follow up assessments
• To undertake the recording of recruitment, recruitment logs and study screening logs. The investigators and the researchers will collect and discuss screening logs monthly in teleconferences. 
• Maintain responsibility for data management and liaison with the Programme Manager. Set up and maintain mechanism for storing study data in accordance with Trust and UCL guidelines and in liaison  with the Programme Manager.
• Conduct literature reviews under the supervision of the programme manager and Chief investigators
• Contribute to reports and prepare papers for publication
• Prepare presentations and easy read/accessible information 
• Support the involvement of patients and the public (PPI) in the co-production of the intervention

General duties

• To undertake any other duties, which may be required from time to time, as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and needs of the study.
• To work at all times according to Good Clinical Practice, Research Governance and Trust guidelines. 
• To comply with the relevant general policies and standards of Trusts and Universities where duties may be undertaken. 
• To ensure that any data collection is conducted according to the research protocol and adhere to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. 
• To maintain a working knowledge of relevant practice in intellectual disability health and social care and maintain good working relationships with clinical teams. 

Further duties are outlined in the Job Description.

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016,  were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Other reasons to apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

As part of our recruitment process we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA)  and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers  to check and verify your qualifications who  may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same..

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Education/ qualification/ training, essential criteria.

• Undergraduate degree in psychology or related social/ health sciences

Desirable criteria

• Post-graduate qualification (MSc), or equivalent research experience in psychology/ psychiatry or closely cognate discipline (e.g. social science) ICH Good Clinical Practice
• Knowledge of / familiarity with services for patients with intellectual disability or mental illness.tal
• Experience of conducting qualitative or quantitative research or conducting a systematic review
• Experience of working with people with intellectual disability or mental illness
• Experience of recruitment of participants to research
• Authorship on a research paper published in peer-reviewed journal
• Experience presenting research findings to internal departments and external bodies and in research dissemination
• Experience of conducting qualitative interviews and/or analysis

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Good writing and communication skills – demonstrable ability to communicate complex information to a range of audiences and through a variety of mediums with confidence, empathy and enthusiasm.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage people from culturally diverse backgrounds and in research
• Able to handle sensitive and highly confidential information and discuss complex issues with patients
• Ability to produce accurate meeting papers, excel spread sheets, graphs, reports using MS Office packages and use virtual meetings platforms.
• Understanding of the research process; demonstrable knowledge of research design and methods including an understanding of the analytical process
• Ability to produce clear, accurate written and verbal reports and maintain up to date records
• Experience of preparing ethics applications

Attitude & Disposition

• Able to work under pressure and under own initiative
• Proven ability to work effectively as a team member as well as working alone
• Proven time management skills including the ability to manage own workload within defined parameters
• Job description for Research Assistant (ICONIC) ( PDF , 344.6 KB )
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• ELFT at a glance ( PDF , 151.0 KB )
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• ELFT Strategy ( PDF , 153.5 KB )
• Trust Demographic Information ( PDF , 1.5 MB )

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