Details
1102783
University of Leicester
10/10/2025
Other - See Job
Monday to Friday; 37.5 hours per week
Smart Casual
Pay
£16.92
£2.04
Description
Role
Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team (LKLT) are looking for a bright and enthusiastic early researcher to join the team who will assist with contributing to the implementation and ongoing development of a digital health intervention within the Kidney Lifestyle Research Programme (KLRP). This role involves refining and testing features of an online education programme, gathering feedback from patients and healthcare professionals by conducting qualitative interviews and focus groups, and working closely with the research team to ensure the tool remains evidence-based, user-friendly, and aligned with clinical best practice.
Duties and responsibilities
Join our team and play a key role in advancing digital health innovation! You’ll contribute to the successful delivery of implementation projects through data collection, management, and analysis, supporting the development of our cutting-edge digital health intervention. Your role will also involve conducting qualitative interviews and focus groups with kidney patients and healthcare professionals across primary and secondary care settings.
Skills and experience
You will have a background with a relevant health science degree and possess experience of conducting and the analysis of qualitative interviews. You will draw on your knowledge and/or experience of qualitative research and implementation science methodology.
This qualitative and quantitative data methodologies, practical experience in health research and theoretical knowledge, and has an interest in implementation science, health psychology/behaviour research or other health related subject.
Location
Cross site - Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and University of Leicester campus
Additional information
Informal enquiries are welcome, and should be made to Dr Matthew Graham-Brown on mgb23@le.ac.uk.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 because the appointee will have substantial access to young people and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, an appointment to this post will be subject to checking through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The successful applicant(s) for this post will, therefore, be required to give consent for the University to check and obtain appropriate clearance with the DBS for the existence and content of any criminal record in the form of a Standard Disclosure.
Information received from the DBS and the police will be kept in strict confidence and will be destroyed once the University is satisfied in this regard.’
Closing date for applications: Monday 13 October 2025
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The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.
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