Research Assistant
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- Grade 5: £32, 676 to £35,366, including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 25 Oct 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Psychology, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Assistants / Officers
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
The post holder will assist with the high-quality research being undertaken by the CAMHS Research Unit and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. The CAMHS Research Unit has a reputation in leading on clinically relevant research and evaluation both within CAMHS and across a range of mental health services. Beginning in September 2019 and funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the unit undertook the evaluation of an innovative parenting programme, “Being a Parent Together”, which had the aim of reducing parental conflict and improving lives of young people. The unit recently received additional funding from the DWP to adapt the programme for online delivery.
The post holder will lead on the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the online adaptation of Being a Parent Together with sites across the UK and will play a key role in the success of the project.
In addition to this project, the post holder will contribute to the general research activities of the CAMHS Research Unit, including evaluating a national scaling programme of the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities parenting intervention.
The CAMHS Research Unit has a reputation in leading on clinically relevant research and evaluation both within CAMHS and across a range of mental health services. Our work develops and tests innovative methods for:
- Enhancing the accessibility, outcomes and experience of child and adolescent mental health care, particularly for families from socially disadvantaged communities and other hard-to-reach groups;
- Achieving successful translation, adoption and sustainability of evidence-based practices in CAMHS and allied services;
- Promoting the active involvement of service users in clinical decision making, service development and evaluation.
The main duties for this role will be:
- To ensure the smooth running of the research and evaluation projects undertaken by the CAMHS Research Unit by supporting, as necessary, the lead Clinical Psychologist/s.
- Undertake literature searches, retrieval and reference management.
- Liaise with mental health professionals involved in research and evaluation projects and with the team at CPCS.
- Collect quantitative and qualitative data from research participants and assist with analysis.
- Identify barriers to participation in any aspects of the studies and develop appropriate alternative strategies for data collection.
- Develop and efficiently manage research databases.
- Assist in the preparation of reports, publications, presentations and other methods of dissemination.
Any other duties appropriate to the grade, as directed by the supervisor.
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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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
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- +(44)02078365454
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