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Research Assistant

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (GB)
Salary
The salary will be paid at Grade 5, £32,160 to £33,015 per annum, inclusive of £3,500 per annum Lond
Closing date
6 Sep 2019

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This position will be based in the Health Service & Population Research Department, King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, within the Centre for Implementation Science Research Group. An excellent opportunity has arisen to become a Research Assistant for a new study.

The post-holder will work on the CaFI-2 project (Culturally-adapted Family Intervention study). CaFI-2 is a multi-site randomised controlled trial of a family intervention for African and Caribbean service users with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder and their families. People of African and/or Caribbean origin are the more likely to have schizophrenia or psychosis than other ethnic groups in the UK.

The Research Assistant will contribute towards the day-to-day operation of the London site under the guidance of Site Lead Dr Claire Henderson, with significant contact with Chief Investigator Dr Dawn Edge (Manchester) and Trial Manager (Manchester). The post-holder will be involved in refinement of therapy materials, participant recruitment, data collection, analysis and write-up.

The successful candidate will have a BSc in Psychology (or related); experience of participant recruitment; experience of working with service users and/or carers with long-term conditions; and ability to work well independently.

As the research focuses on improving African and Caribbean people’s mental health, relevant experience of working with/understanding these communities would be advantageous.

This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) however reduced FTE or job shares will be considered. This post is initially funded for 24 months (assuming successful completion of probation).

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 2 years/ 24 months.

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent. However, reduced FTE or job shares will be considered

The selection process will include a panel interview.

Company

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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