Job id: 084928. Salary: £39,980 per annum (pro rata), including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 21 February 2024. Closing date: 26 February 2024.
Business unit: Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. Department: Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation.
Contact details:Debbie Spreadborough. [email protected]
Location: Denmark Hill Campus. Category: Research.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a research record and interest in palliative care to gain research experience by contributing to an applied health research project supported by the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, and preparing new funding applications.
The post-holder will work with Professor Matthew Maddocks to support existing research activity, including undertaking scoping and narrative literature reviews, interview studies and workshop events. They will assisy=t all aspects of the research, including development of protocols, application to ethics committees, interviewing and data collection, analysis and writing reports, reporting to funders, wider engagement, liaison with clinical services and dissemination of research outputs.
The post-holder will work on improving rehabilitation care for people with advanced progressive illness, widening access to palliative care, promoting self-management and independence right up to the end of life, and linking to heath engineering.
The post provides an opportunity for the postholder to hone their methodological skills and develop practical and theoretical research expertise.
The post-holder will work with Professor Maddocks and academics/researchers at the Cicely Saunders Institute.
King’s applied health and social care research is ranked first in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework 2021, overall and for outputs, impact and environment. The Faculty of NMPC is ranked 2nd in the world for nursing.
Candidates should be highly motivated individuals with the ability to work independently as well as part of a team, enjoy working on more than one project at a time, have a sound grasp of both quantitative and qualitative methods, and excellent communication skills. We are keen to hear from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experience.
This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 15 months .
This is a part-time post 0.7 FTE over 3-4 days.
Key responsibilities
- Manage and execute all delegated areas of project and literature reviews, keeping to agreed deadlines.
- Liaise with funders and collaborating organisations.
- Draft research reports and papers, including progress reports, final reports and publications, and update reporting data bases, such as research fish.
- Maintain and update research datasets.
- Interview patients, carers, professionals and other relevant individuals.
- Analysis of data using appropriate statistical and other packages e.g. SPSS, Excel.
- Be self-serving in producing reports, in communication and in establishing and managing an electronic database of references.
- Contribute to the dissemination of study results and implementation of good practice.
- Work flexibly and in collaboration with staff in relevant organisations involved in the projects.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of any patient/family/staff information and work within the terms of the Data Protection Act.
- Participate in departmental staff meetings, researchers' seminars and development, appraisal and team building exercises and the general research quality and administrative duties within the department at King’s.
- Collaborate on other projects as appropriate and consistent with departmental needs.
- Any other duties consistent with the grade of the post, as agreed with Professor Maddocks. This may include undertaking ad hoc reports and representing the project at meetings or conferences.
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post
Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Interviews will be conducted in March, 2024.
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