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Senior Research Fellow (Young People's Mental Health Research Centre)

Job details
Posting date: 11 July 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 24 August 2024
Location: Ashton under Lyne, OL6 7SR
Company: Pennine Care NHS FT
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6469448/311-H669-24

Summary

A Vacancy at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.


Young people's mental health is one of the trusts priority areas for research in the Trusts Research Strategy. In order to support our research ambitions, we are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow to join our Young People's Mental Health Research Centre, which is comprised of enthusiastic and engaged clinicians and researchers. The Senior Research Fellow will support our aspirations to become an international pioneer of research, which will ultimately support the delivery of world class and sustainable specialist health and social care services for people with mental health challenges. Our Young People's Mental Health Research Centre aims to achieve this by undertaking high quality research into interventions, treatments and services for young people with mental health challenges, and to disseminate the findings. If you are enthusiastic about transforming the lives of people through research we would love to hear from you!

This post is available at Senior Research Fellow level working within the Young People's Mental Health Research Centre in collaboration with Pennine Cares Research and Innovation department.

Main Duties include (see job description for full details:
• Utilising skills, experience, knowledge and working in partnership to undertake high quality research for children and young people with mental health challenges.
• Use evidence-based research to make service improvements.
• Disseminate the findings from research.
• Aim to ensure that young people with mental health challenges experience the best outcomes and are able to achieve meaningful and fulfilling lives.

As an NHS Research Hub, we believe that our work should be clinically focussed using practice-informed research and research-informed practice. The postholder will work collaboratively with a team of clinicians, researchers, and managers from across Pennine Care, with the ultimate aim of making a real impact on the way health services are delivered.

This is a great time to join the Young People's Mental Health Research Centre, as this research hub has been chosen as one of the 5 key priority areas for research within Pennine Care and this offers the opportunity to shape the research and whatever the project, will use an inclusive approach when engaging with patients and clinicians to optimise study design, data collection, and the impact of your findings.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

The main duties and responsibilities consists of:
Working closely with research members to contribute to the delivery of the research programme.
Being responsible for study design, recruitment and data collection and analysis.
Obtaining necessary ethical and governance approvals at project outset.
Conduct literature searching,
Provide regular progress reports,

Writing blogs to help promote the theme and our findings, writing publications (as the lead or a co-author) and other dissemination activities that will help to optimise the impact of our work.
Be involved in grant applications and to supervise more junior staff members.
Applying for NHS research ethics committee approval.
Qualitative data collection and analysis.
Literature searching.
Recruitment of participants.
Management of data.
To engage with colleagues within the Young People's Mental Health Research Centre and the Trust Research Innovation team offering advice and guidance as required.
To work effectively with patients, the public and healthcare staff to ensure our research meets the needs of these groups.
To lead or co-author on research publications and conference abstracts.
To ensure that research governance procedures and GDPR legislation is adhered to.
To enhance the impact of our work through engagement with professional conferences, writing for different audiences, blogs, short course development, etc.
To undertake personal development in keeping with the aspiration to be a national leader in health research.
To update the theme manager on project progress and outcomes to enable monitoring for and reporting to the NIHR.
Lead on designing projects.
To manage and/or mentor more junior staff.
To lead on or contribute to funding opportunities


This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Jul 2024