Research Fellow

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Well being Companies Analysis & Coverage
Wage: 
£43,947 to £49,908
every year, inclusive.
Closing Date:  Sunday 21 April 2024
Reference:  PHP-HSRP-2024-06

The London Faculty of Hygiene & Tropical Drugs (LSHTM) is likely one of the world’s main public well being universities. Our mission is to enhance well being and well being fairness within the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to attain excellence in public and world well being analysis, schooling and translation of information into coverage and apply.

We have now been funded to develop a brand new questionnaire-based instrument to measure care-work associated high quality of life.   This undertaking builds on our earlier work that developed a framework to know the elements of the standard of life at work amongst direct care employees in England. The intention of the present undertaking is to finish the event and validation of the instrument.   We’re recruiting a Analysis Fellow to undertake psychometric analyses through the validation of the brand new instrument.   

Candidates ought to maintain a postgraduate diploma in a related self-discipline and have expertise in psychometric strategies (ideally each classical and Rasch-based strategies).  Candidates also needs to have the ability to present proof of written (peer reviewed output), skill to work each independently and collaboratively, communication expertise (written and spoken) and good organisational expertise.   Ideally candidates also needs to have information and expertise of PROMs and analysis in social care. Candidates also needs to ideally have expertise of contributing to analysis grant functions, educating and evaluation, supervising and supporting junior researchers and/or analysis diploma college students/non-academic workers.

The put up is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and glued time period till twenty eighth February 2026.  The put up is funded by the Nationwide Institute for Well being Analysis (NIHR) Analysis for Social Care (RfSC) and is obtainable from 1st June 2024.

The wage shall be on the Tutorial Pathway wage scale Grade 6 within the vary £43,947 – £49,908 every year (inclusive of London Weighting). The put up shall be topic to the LSHTM phrases and situations of service.   Annual go away entitlement is 30 working days per yr, professional rata for half time workers. Along with this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is obtainable. The put up relies in London at LSHTM.

Purposes needs to be made on-line by way of our jobs web site . On-line functions shall be accepted by the automated system till 10pm of the cut-off date. Any queries concerning the applying course of could also be addressed to [email protected] .

The supporting assertion part ought to set out how your {qualifications}, expertise and coaching meet every of the choice standards. Please present a number of paragraphs addressing every criterion. The supporting assertion is an important a part of the choice course of and thus a failure to offer this info will imply that the applying is not going to be thought-about. A solution to any of the factors reminiscent of “Please see connected CV” is not going to be thought-about acceptable. 

Please word that in case you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it will not be doable to give you another date.

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