RESEARCH STUDY ASSISTANT

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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is the third largest clinical department in the UW School of Medicine with 285 full-time faculty members, 280 clinical faculty members, and over 300 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $35 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting a Research Study Assistant.

POSITION PURPOSE
The successful candidate will join the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (WERT) to provide research, data, and administrative support to multiple research projects and program evaluations. WERT conducts federally funded and state-contracted implementation and evaluation research at a systems level. We partner with states, public child-serving agencies, Wraparound provider organizations, and intermediaries to promote effective systems of care and high-quality, model-adherent Wraparound care coordination for children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral needs and their families. A key method through which UW WERT supports the field and conducts its research is via a suite of evaluation measures, known collectively as the Wraparound Fidelity Assessment System (WFAS). WFAS tools and its accompanying online data collection, management, and reporting system (WrapStat) are licensed for use by hundreds of provider organizations nationally.

The Research Study Assistant (RSA) would focus on technical assistance for hundreds of WFAS users nationwide via the “helpdesk” email for WERT. This would require excellent problem-solving skills and being able to find appropriate information and documents to send to the users. The RSA will assist with the migration of the Indiana state project into our online data management system. They will also support several statewide initiatives that are informed by fidelity and client outcomes measured by using WFAS tools and the WrapStat online software package.  Beginning in 2025, the RSA will also assist in development and testing of a text-based data system via a pending National Institute of Mental Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. A successful Research Study Assistant will be able to be flexible with tasks as the WERT team has many projects running simultaneously. Being able to shift and re-prioritize is essential to this role.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES