Project Research Assistant

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system., We are seeking a Project Research Assistant to work on a specific research and development project related to the NCL Waiting Room (www.NCLwaitingroom.nhs.uk) website, based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
The successful applicant will be part of an interdisciplinary team.
Applications for this position are invited from candidates who ideally will have experience of working within team research projects in psychology or mental health as well as excellent communication skills. Candidates should be familiar with mental health research and have exceptional organisational and interpersonal skills.
The post holder will be jointly responsible for participant recruitment and data collection for this project in close collaboration with the project team., The Project Research Assistant will be familiar with participant recruitment and the collection, management and analysis of data. They may also be involved where possible in writing up the results for reports and publications.
The post holder will participate in recruitment of participants, obtain informed consent from staff and potential service user participants, conduct research interviews, undertake quantitative and qualitative analyses under supervision, and undertake other activities aimed at making sure the project runs smoothly.
Some key responsibilities of the post will be shared between the team employed on the project. These are:
+ To work closely with the project lead on any matter related to the smooth running of the project
+ To solely conduct the recruitment of participants to the project
+ To be willing to travel across North Central London
+ To be solely responsible for collecting interview data from participants (alone and unsupervised) as per project protocols
+ To be solely responsible for personally conducting interviews with participants (alone and unsupervised)
+ To manage data for quantitative and qualitative analyses
+ To lead on the preparation of reports and relevant publications, and to present results at conferences and meetings related to strategic planning and service development
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties., The Project Research Assistant will support the research requirements of the www.NCLwaitingroom.nhs.uk team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role by applying research skills to both the ongoing evaluation of the service and the development of content and enabling an expansion to a broader audience. This role will focus in particular on mapping young adult and parent services in North Central London as well as neurodevelopmental conditions and resources, as well as extensively researching and evaluating adult mental health resources and care provision.
This position involves comprehensive literature and market research to support the identification and analysis of existing mental health services and resources. The Project Research Assistant will contribute to a service evaluation to assess the effectiveness of current offerings and identify improvement areas.
A key responsibility will be the systematic identification and documentation of young-adult mental health services in North Central London. This service and system mapping will create a comprehensive resource map to support outreach and engagement efforts.
Additionally, the role requires research and writing related to governing bodies and guidance relevant to mental health services. This expansion of adult-focused resources and sources of support aims to better serve young adults aged 18-25 and parents of minors, enhancing our overall service delivery.
This will involve the following elements:
1. Literature review
2. Service description, including an explanation of the model
3. Quantitative data collection and analysis
4. Qualitative data collection and analysis
5. Lived experience input
The successful applicant will be responsible for recruiting professionals to participate in interviews, personally conducting interviews with vulnerable young people and families, personally conducting interviews with professionals which may contain sensitive, distressing or emotional information, transcribing and analysing interview transcripts, and assisting with the write up and dissemination of results.
Given the nature of the services and subject matter under evaluation on this project, the post holder will be required to be exposed to frequent distressing or emotional circumstances and testimony from research participants. The post holder will be required to work within departmental and occupational guidelines, including research ethics as well as clinical record keeping, safeguarding and incident reporting policies. The post holder will be based in the Tavistock Centre.,

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.