Research Associate - North Hub PATHWAYS
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- Warrington, Cheshire (GB)
- Salary
- £39,105 - £42,632 per annum
- Closing date
- 4 Feb 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Psychology, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
THIS POST IS BASED IN WARRINGTON, UK About Us
King's College London offers an intellectually stimulating environment in which to work, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning, in the service of society. We are a multi-faculty institution, providing high-quality teaching, research and innovation across the sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and social sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, an association of leading UK research-intensive universities, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education. King's is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe, and is home to five Medical Research Council Centres spread across its three teaching hospitals.
King's is one of the top 20 universities in the world ( 2014/15 QS World University Rankings ). We are the fourth oldest university in England and based in the heart of London, King's has more than 26,000 students from nearly 140 countries, and more than 7,000 employees.
The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the only such Department in the UK, with 7 professors, 1 Reader and 6 Senior Lecturers comprising its substantive academic staff. The Department will shortly move into the Pears Maudsley Centre, a £90M purpose-built clinical research facility co-locating the academic department and clinical colleagues from South London and Maudsley NGS Foundation Trust, with the purpose of enhancing translational research designed to improve the mental health of children and young people. Its new Clinical Research Facility with cutting-edge equipment offers research opportunities that are unparalleled in the UK and Europe. The PATHWAYS study will be based in the Pears Maudsley Centre.
About the role
We are looking for a highly experienced and enthusiastic post-doctoral researcher to play a leading role in PATHWAYS, a six-year research programme involving children and young people with complex mental and/or physical health needs. The post-holder will be a lead researcher in a large-scale multi-site research programme and will play a key role in implementing and undertaking the research across multiple sites in the UK. This is a six-year programme where the post-holder will be appointed at the beginning of the research and will have significant opportunity to shape its implementation and success.
The role includes the following functions:
- Oversight of all study processes, including timelines, measurement, data collection and data validation, ensuring timely and accurate data collection
- Liaise with PIs at all sites to problem-solve around any issues that arise at clinical sites with attention to those in the Northern Hub
- Work closely with clinicians in Gender Service to promote participant recruitment, accurate and timely completion of clinical data and problem-solve around research-related issues
- Supervise research assistants in all aspects of their roles, including contacting participants and data collection/validation
- Assist in providing regular reports on study progress to the investigators, clinicians and the oversight committees
- Support study advisory groups with relevant training and materials
- Contribute to writing material for participants and their families, for advisory groups and the wider public as well as for publication in peer-reviewed journals
This is a full-time post, 35 hours per week and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 36 months.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- PhD qualified in an area related to the cross-over between physical and mental health*
- Experience in quantitative methods research including analytical techniques and qualitative methods
- Experience of maintaining a research database
- Research experience with children or young people with mental health or physical health concerns
- Experience in writing and publishing research papers in high-quality journals
- Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships
- Strong planning and organisational skills, including ability to work to and meet firm deadlines
* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of longitudinal data collection
- Experience in administration of cognitive assessments and/or structured interviews, e.g., for mental health
- Experience working on complex and/or multi-site studies
- Experience of working directly with clinicians in a clinical or quasi-clinical capacity
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances.
Please note we have the right to close the advert earlier than advertised if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
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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