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Research Fellow, Faculty of Health

Employer
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Salary
$104,619 - $123,739 + 17% Superannuation
Closing date
30 Nov 2022
  • Based at our Melbourne Burwood Campus
  • Full-time and fixed term for 12 months
  • Level B $104,619 - $123,739 + 17% Superannuation

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Cloud Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities. 

Deakin Health Economics, within the School of Health and Social Development, is one of Australia’s largest teams of health economists. Our research focuses on the efficient allocation of health sector and non-health sector resources to achieve policy objectives and informs both health service design and implementation.

The Western Victorian Primary Health Network is in the process of establishing Priority Primary Care Centre’s (PPCCs). These are GP-led services that provide care for conditions that require urgent attention, but do not require the high-acuity care of an emergency department. The PPCC programme aims to reduce demand on emergency departments by providing an alternative service for low-acuity conditions.

This research project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of PPCC in reducing demand on emergency departments. It also seeks to determine the cost-effectiveness of doing so.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Initiating, designing, and conducting high-quality mixed methods research
  • Engaging collaboratively with team and external partners to develop novel and high-quality research
  • Analysing key health datasets to investigate service utilisation,  effectiveness and cost effectiveness
  • Conducting structured interviews with patients, clinicians, and policymakers
  • Condensing findings into reports and presentations for a variety of stakeholders
  • Demonstrating timely delivery of outcomes
  • Adopting and promoting a culture of research excellence, innovation, and impact

Key selection criteria for this role:

  • PhD in Health Services research, or related discipline (particularly health economics or public health), or equivalent industry experience
  • Experience with qualitative research (interviews, focus groups) and quantitative data analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to implement practice change by the initiation, utilisation, and review of research evidence
  • Demonstrated organisational and project management skills, including record keeping, ability to work complex environments in a multi-disciplinary team with limited supervision 
  • Ability to contribute to communities through research
  • Capacity to contribute to leadership of research and administration
  • Research experience in relevant disciplines including one or more of the following: public health research; implementation research, health economics, statistics
  • Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or exhibitions *Desirable

Applications for this position close on 30 November 2022

Successful applicants will need to comply with vaccination mandates imposed by the relevant state/territory government. Applicants who attend third-party sites to undertake University activities will also be required to comply with any other directions or requirements in place at the third-party location.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Some travel required for data collected
  • Drivers Licence 
  • Working with Children Check

Please submit your resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria.

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Suzanne Robinson, Chair and Head, Deakin Health Economics, via suzanne.robinson@deakin.edu.au

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.

We understand that our academic workforce is increasingly diverse, and we recognise academic careers may be placed on hold throughout many life circumstances. Achievement relative to opportunity places more emphasis on the quality, as opposed to the quantity of research outputs. In your application, we strongly encourage you to comment on your achievements relative to opportunity.

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