This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Research Fellow within the CHILDS programme, which is at the forefront of clinical-academic research for population health paediatrics. The Child Health Integrated Learning and Delivery System (CHILDS) team sits across Evelina London children's hospital, the Department of Women and Children's Health at King's College London, and King's Health Partners Women and Children's Health clinical-academic group.

The team will apply learning from the Children and Young People's Health Partnership programme to several new projects, linked to NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London and South East London Integrated Care System priorities for children and young people.

The team is clinical-academic, so this role will work across both sides, providing the main research link between teams. The post holder will have a key role in managing or conducting all aspects of the development and conduct of the population paediatrics projects, including evaluation design and conduct, data collection, data analysis, data visualisation, and the preparation of reports, papers and presentations.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a mixed methods researcher with experience of working in a transdisciplinary team and on applied research projects. The post-holder will be the lead researcher on the population paediatrics team.

The post holder will lead the assessment of child health and health service needs, intervention design and service and research evaluations. They will need extensive experience of using routinely collected health service use data, from secondary and primary care sources, for observational and interventional research. They will be expected to undertake a wide range of research activities (including rapid evidence reviews, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis) as well as drafting reports, peer-reviewed publications and assisting in developing research proposals.

The post holder will report to Dr Ingrid Wolfe, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at King's College London, Consultant in Population Paediatrics at Evelina London.

About us

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for women, children and families as we continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs, we recognise the huge benefit of our workforce being reflective of the diverse communities we serve.

We are committed to supporting the professional development of staff, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff's emotional wellbeing and resilience.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for more information.

As well as an interview, there may be a skills-based test.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Education

Essential

• BSc in related subject
• MSc in related subject

Previous experience

Essential

• Demonstrated experience of qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and preparation of scientific reports
• Demonstrated experience of health service research, including managing health service or complex intervention evaluations
• Experience of analysing health service data, particularly large data sets
• Demonstrated experience of writing grant proposals and peer reviewed publications
• Highly competent in qualitative research methods and analysis, particularly in workshop and focus group discussion facilitation.

Skills/Knowledge/ Ability

Essential

• Competent in quantitative research methods and analysis, with a working knowledge of statistical software packages, such as STATA, SPSS, and R.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to balance workload, priorities and conflicting demands
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Ability to work with other members of the team and create productive and professional working relationships

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Becket House

1 Lambeth Palace Road

London

SE1 7EU

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