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Research Assistant Psychologist
| Posting date: | 08 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2TE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9444-25-0423 |
Summary
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements. The role offers an exciting opportunity for you to develop your applied research capabilities and understanding of managing transformation of inpatient mental health services. If you are interested in improving mental health services through applied research, this could be the role for you! You will join an established team of friendly psychological professionals. Your role will be to engage in qualitative research fieldwork to examine implementation of service interventions and collate secondary data to monitor outcomes of service transformation over time. In addition to quantitative data gathering there is scope for additional smaller projects of audit, quality improvement and data analysis and dissemination of results throughout the service. In addition to the lovely team of wider professionals, you will be supported by a team of two Consultant Clinical Psychologists and two academics (from Warwick Medical School and Warwick Business School). Together we will develop peer reviewed publications, professional journal articles, and management reports to support service transformation. Thus the intention is that this project will influence inpatient mental health service delivery both locally and nationally. Person Specification: Qualifications Essential (3) Obtained a psychology degree giving GBR status with the British Psychological Society, Grade 2:1 or above (Essential) Experience Essential (3) Research experience, particularly experience of gathering and analysing primary and secondary qualitative data (3) Familiarity with relevant software and IT packages (e.g. SPSS, Excel, Word, (3) Experience of working in a mental health or social care setting (3) Experience of managing projects (3) Presenting and disseminating the results of research. Desirable: Publication of results of research PhD/ MSc or further post graduate research experience Proven ability to use own initiative and problem solve Experience of taking assessments facilitating focus groups/ conducting interviews Experience of extracting and coding data from an electronic patient record Be familiar with the management, evaluation, and analysis of data, developing and implementing skills in the interpretation of qualitative data in particular from interviews and surveys undertaken with staff, partner organisations, services users and the general public