Senior Research Associate in Health Economics (RA1979)

Updated: almost 2 years ago
Location: Norwich, ENGLAND
Deadline: 6/6

Description

Norwich Medical School

Senior Research Associate in Health Economics (full-time and part-time (minimum of 0.7fte considered), fixed term to 31 March 2023

Ref: RA1979

£34,304 to £40,927 per annum, pro rata for part-time 

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic and talented Senior Research Associate to join the Health Economics Group (HEG) in the Norwich Medical School to work on a recently funded project evaluating the embedding of technology-enabled remote monitoring pathways to support virtual wards funded by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) for the East of England (EoE) and the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN). 


Remote monitoring (RM) solutions have been rapidly adopted for a wide range of conditions and patient cohorts across UK NHS trusts to mitigate some of the challenges posed by Covid-19. Little is known about who benefits most from remote monitoring and why, including patient outcomes, staff experiences, and its impact on services. This project will conduct service evaluations of remote monitoring pathways in four regions across the East of England to gain insight on the uptake and embedding of such pathways. For each locale, with key stakeholders, including patient and public members, we will co-produce accessible implementation guidance for clinicians and patients on how to best make use of technology-enabled remote monitoring solutions. We will engage with a key NHS priority area, health inequalities, contributing evidence about how to improve equitability of access to digital technologies. For more details about the project, see: https://www.arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/news-insights/news-latest/project-award-improve-remote-monitoring-healthcare

You will analyse available data to understand, for each pathway, the:

  • resources used in, and associated costs, of RM (including: its setting-up; standard use) and a typical patient’s virtual pathway trajectory;
  • capacity, uptake and compliance; 
  • comparisons with standard care;
  • availability of data and feasibility of its access.

Key to the post will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, to ensure analysis is pertinent and tailored to each pathway. The post holder will have a key role in: securing permissions for data access; operationalising the specific analysis questions; data analysis; contributing to developing implications from findings, including for health inequalities; write-up and disseminating findings through a range of mediums including implementation guidance and academic publication.

The post is ideally suited to an individual with a background in health economics, or similar field with a major quantitative component. Applicants should be familiar with methods of health economic evaluation. 

This is a joint project between the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) for the East of England (EoE) and the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN). The NIHR ARC EoE is a collaboration between the host trust, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust, and the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Hertfordshire and Essex in partnership with other health and social care organisations, industry and charities across the region. The aim of the ARC EoE is to support applied health and care research, implementation and capacity building at a local, regional, national and international level. The core of the Health Economics & Prioritisation theme of the ARC EoE is based within HEG. The EAHSN is funded by the NHS and the Office for Life Sciences to bring together academia, citizens, health services and industry to realise the value of innovations more quickly.

This is a fixed term post to 31 March 2023, extension beyond this is subject to further external funding being secured.  Applicants can apply for the role as full-time or part- time (minimum of 70% full-time equivalent).  Please indicate your preference when applying.  We are open to considering flexible working patterns in line with appropriate UEA policy.  The appointment will be subject to a criminal record check at Enhanced level from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Closing date:  6 June 2022.

The University is committed to diversifying its workforce. As examples, we already hold an Athena SWAN Silver Institutional Award in recognition of our advancement towards gender equality. We also have a Vice-Chancellor led Taskforce on Tackling Racism and a Race Equality Charter Working Group which support our work on race equality. Our aim is to submit to the Race Equality Charter in 2024.

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