Research Assistant Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; Presencial; GBP 30.000 - 42.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Learning and development opportunities

Cycle to Work and other schemes

NHS discounts and wellbeing support

Descripción de la vacante

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust is expanding its research and innovation portfolio, seeking a skilled qualitative researcher to support transformation of inpatient mental health services. You will conduct interviews with key stakeholders, collate documentation, and contribute to knowledge mobilisation outputs and clinical reports.

Working within a supportive team of clinicians and academics, you will develop peer-reviewed publications, manage small audit projects, and present

Formación

• Obtained a psychology degree giving GBR status with the British Psychological Society, Grade 2:1 or above.
• Experience of gathering and analysing primary and secondary qualitative data.
• Experience conducting qualitative research and analysis, including interviews and thematic analysis.
• Familiar with data management and interpretation of qualitative data from staff and service users.
• Experience in mental health or social care settings and in managing projects.

Responsabilidades

• Primary qualitative research involving interviews with stakeholders in the transformation process.
• Secondary research: collating strategic plans, literature reviews, audits and data.
• Collating data and producing accessible reports and presentations for stakeholders.
• Contributing to academic manuscripts, knowledge mobilisation outputs and clinical reports.
• Engage in fieldwork and evidence synthesis to examine implementation of service interventions.

Conocimientos

Qualitative research

Interviews

Data analysis

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Educación

Psychology degree GBR status (BPS Grade 2:1+)

Herramientas

SPSS

Excel

Word

Descripción del empleo

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! More information is in the supporting documents, however the role includes:

• Primary qualitative research that involves interviewing key stakeholders in the transformation process and attending key meetings within and outside CWPT.
• Secondary research, for example collating relevant documentation such as strategic plans, literature reviews, audit and other data that shows emergent outcomes of the transformation, such as outcomes for service users and service costs.
• Collating data and producing accessible reports and making presentations to relevant stakeholders
• Contributing to the development of academic manuscripts, knowledge mobilisation outputs and clinical reports.

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, knowledge mobilisation products 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.

Embedded in the NIHR ARC WM - National Institute for Health and Care Research, Applied Research Collaborative, West Midlands.

Part of a network of similar researchers focused on 'knowledge mobilisation' that meet regularly.

You will join an established team of friendly psychological professionals. Your role will be to engage in qualitative research fieldwork and evidence synthesis to examine implementation of service interventions and collate secondary data to monitor outcomes of service transformation over time. In addition to the NIHR study the role includes conducting and driving forward smaller projects of audit, quality improvement and data analysis and dissemination of results throughout the service.

Candidate Information Pack Dec 24

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) Experience conducting qualitative research and analysis, such as conducting interviews and thematic analysis
• (3) 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.
• (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
• MSc or further post graduate research experience
• Proven ability to use own initiative and problem solve
• Experience of extracting and coding data from an electronic patient record

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we are expanding our research and innovation as part of aspirations to achieve University Trust status.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• flexible working opportunities
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.