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Research Assistant, (LiLaC-Pin/DACHA-DASH)

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1089038


University of Nottingham


06/01/2025


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Approximately 14.50 hours per week working flexibly (over five days or pre-agreed spread of hours)


Smart Casual

Pay


£16.65


£2.01

Description

Role

The National Institute for Health Research and Care, Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands (NIHR ARC EM) is looking for a part time temporary research assistant to join our team to help build capacity in care and domiciliary home applied research.

Start Date: 6th January 2025
End Date: 9th March 2025
Working Hours: Approximately 14.5 hours a week to be worked flexibly (agreed with management)
Pay Rate: £16.65 per hour
Holiday Pay: £2.01per hour
Location: Hybrid working: from home, desk working at the Institute of Mental Health; travelling to sites
Interview Date: 22nd November
Dress Code: Smart Casual
 
The National Institute for Health Research and Care, Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands (NIHR ARC EM) is looking for a part time temporary research assistant to join our team to help build capacity in care and domiciliary home applied research. The role holder will be part of LiLaC (Living Lab forCare) team, an innovative living-lab model of conducting embedded research in partnership with end-users. As a Research Assistant in LiLaC, you will be expected to assist in bridging research and practice communities, working with the practice link-pins and a community engagement worker. You will have responsibility for establishing relationships and networks with care and domiciliary homes across the East Midlands. You will support the team to help co-design, co-develop and co-deliver research that meets the challenges faced in the setting. The team will you will support will plan and conduct work using approaches or methodologies and techniques appropriate to the type of research. You will be help in writing up work for publication. In addition the role holder will help support the delivery of the DACHA-DASH study (Developing Resources and Minimum dataset for Care Homes Adoption –Developing Agreed and Shared Approaches to Outputs) also funded through NIHR ARC EM.A .

Duties and responsibilities

  • Full driving licence is necessary for this role, access to a car and vehicle/driver must be fully insured for business use. Travel expenses (mileage) will be reimbursed at standard University of Nottingham rates.
  • Note taking in focus groups and visits/observations;
  • Arranging and attending site visits to care homes and stakeholder engagement events;
  • Being the main point of contact for care homes into the research team(s) and keeping those links warm;
  • Organising and co-chairing a community of practice for shared learning for the living lab approach (cross-ARC EM);
  • Supporting the lead researchers and community engagement officer, with literature searching and reviewing, data collection and analysis,
  • Being part of team writing activities across two research study areas (LiLaC Study and Dacha Dash study)

Skills and experience

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with clarity on complex information.
  • Ability to analyse and illuminate data, interprets reports, evaluate and criticise texts and bring new insights.
  • Ability to demonstrate understanding of how to creatively apply relevant research approaches, models, techniques and methods.
  • Ability to foster a research culture and commitment to learn in others.
  • Ability to build and sustain relationships and collaborate with others, both internally and externally
What you can expect to gain during this role:
  • Research skills
  • Building networks
  • Confidence to work autonomously and independently,
  • Communication skills
  • Cross-organisation/sector working
  • Awareness of how to build collaboratives between academic researchers and (real world) social care organisations.

Location
Hybrid working: from home, desk working at the Institute of Mental Health; travelling to sites

Additional information

Please apply via the website with a CV and cover letter by Thursday 14th November 

 

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