Research Fellow in General Practice (MIDAS Trial)

Post Summary

This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the position.

Medicines and Social Prescribing to aDdress pAtient priorities in multimorbidity (MIDAS): A multi-arm definitive cluster randomised trial in Irish general practice

The Research Fellow will be a highly motivated and talented clinician researcher who will lead elements of the MIDAS trial intervention (link workers providing social prescribing) with the support of the PI and Co-PI and project management team. The Research Fellow will have responsibility for writing study reports, supporting practice recruitment, supporting data collection and analysis and supporting study governance activities. This researcher will be a mixed methods researcher and will have expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods, including trials.

The Research Fellow will be a clinician with health services research experience responsible for the Linkworker intervention arm of the MIDAS cluster RCT working closely with the PI (Prof Susan Smith) together with the Co-PI and HRB PCCTNI Director Prof Andrew Murphy. She/he/they will need excellent knowledge of, and skills in, health services research, project management and will need to be able to engage successfully with clinical colleagues in general practice settings.

Please note that Garda vetting will be sought in respect of individuals who come under consideration for this post

The successful applicant will be expected to take up post as soon as possible.

The successful applicant will be based in the Institute of Population Health, Tallaght on the 6th floor of the Russell Centre in the Discipline of Public Health and Primary Care and in St James Hospital, as required.

Application Procedure

Applicants should submit a full Curriculum Vitae to include the names and contact details of 2 referees (including email addresses), to:-

• Professor Susan Smith, Professor of General Practice, Discipline of Public Health and Primary Care,School of Medicine
• e-mail:  [email protected]

Informal enquiries concerning the post may be made to Professor Susan Smith ([email protected]) or Professor Andrew Murphy – contact via [email protected].

At Trinity, we are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. Trinity welcomes applications from all individuals, including those applicants with disabilities, those who may have had non-traditional career paths, those who have taken time out for reasons including family or caring responsibilities. We also welcome international applicants including those whom have been displaced due to war.

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