Research Assistant

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Research Assistant to join our busy team. You will play a pivotal role within the Op COURAGE Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Service within the North London Mental Health Partnership . Op COURAGE operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment.
This role will involve supporting senior staff members in audit, patient and service-related data collection, management and analyses, and research activities, ensuring that Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Research Governance and local Partnership guidelines are adhered to, resulting in the collection of high quality data. Your work will involve both patient-facing and data administration work.
You will help raise awareness of clinical outcome data collection amongst clinical colleagues and service users, and will help to embed better data collection and management systems within clinical teams. You will also help in the writing up of service-related reports, presentations and research manuscripts for publication.
Your office base will be at St Pancras Hospital. The role will suit hybrid working where appropriate., The post holder will liaise with the members of the multi-disciplinary clinical team to establish procedures for data collection and service evaluation/research focused activities. Part of this will involve attendance at various team and partnership level meetings.
The role will involve gathering appropriate assessments and rating scales, engaging in qualitative and quantitative data collection, as well as transferring existing data to electronic format and new databases. The creation and updating of appropriate databases to aid data collection and storage will also be included.
The post holder will also undertake qualitative interviews with patients, carers and relevant stakeholders regarding aspects of care and service delivery; and provide ongoing information, advice and support to patients (and carers/ families) regarding clinical data collection, service development and clinical research.
Maintaining adequate patient records and ensuring accurate data collection is key., The post holder will have a competent knowledge and understanding of the Department of Health Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care and ICH GCP Guidelines.
The successful candidate will also assess and evaluate the progress of on-going audits, service evaluations and research projects and provide regular updates to the senior clinicians and managers, local line manager and other appropriate staff.
Attendance at local and national meetings in relation to service development and research will also be required.
Good communication skills are required, due to engagement with various stakeholders, including veterans and their affected others who may have mental health difficulties, impaired communication skills and/or be distressed.
Communication also includes working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues in our team, and with a wide range of health and social care staff in hospital and community settings, and across the veteran sector.
For further details, please see the attached JD and PS.