Research Assistant, Centre for Human Developmental Science, Psychology

Job title:

Analysis Assistant, Centre for Human Developmental Science, Psychology

Firm

Cardiff College

Job description

Faculty / Directorate

Faculty of Psychology

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Analysis Assistant, Centre for Human Developmental Science, Psychology.

Cardiff College Faculty of Psychology is searching for to nominate an enthusiastic Analysis Assistant to hitch a multidisciplinary workforce investigating the traits and assist wants of youngsters with Particular Guardianship Orders. This put up is to assist a brand new undertaking funded by the Nuffield Basis, ‘Particular Guardianship Households: Experiences and Assist Wants.’

The Assistant will be part of the Neurodevelopment Evaluation Unit (NDAU) Group
and can be based mostly within the Cardiff College Centre for Human Developmental Science (CUCHDS; ) within the internationally famend Faculty of Psychology at Cardiff College, which has a powerful custom of supporting analysis careers in psychology. The put up can be based totally at CUCHDS (Dr. Amy Paine, Professor Katherine Shelton) however the postholder may also work on the Social Science Analysis Park (sbarc|spark) (Lorna Stabler, Dr. Nell Warner).

The Assistant will present day-to-day assist for the working of the undertaking, together with working carefully with the broader analysis workforce. Supporting recruitment, conducting mum or dad interviews and youngster assessments, knowledge administration and file conserving will all be key duties, for which coaching can be offered. Assessments will primarily result in the usage of quantitative evaluation.

We need to recruit a motivated particular person with a BSc diploma in Psychology who has expertise working with youngsters and households. Candidates will need to have wonderful organisational, communication, and analysis abilities, and a capability to efficiently work as a part of a workforce. The put up would swimsuit a person who wish to develop their expertise working in a multidisciplinary workforce on the intersection of developmental psychology and social care.

This put up is full-time, 35 hours every week, accessible from 1st August 2024 and is fixed-term for 18 months to the thirty first January 2026

It’s anticipated interviews can be held in April (date to be confirmed)

Wage: £32,332 to £34,980 each year (Grade 5). It’s not anticipated to nominate above the primary level of the dimensions £32,332 each year.

Casual enquiries could be made to Dr Amy Paine .

Cardiff College provides many wonderful advantages, together with 45 days annual depart (together with financial institution holidays), blended working (which means it is possible for you to to make money working from home for a few of your time), a cycle to work scheme and different journey initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and extra. It’s an thrilling and vibrant place to work, with many various challenges and is a proud Residing Wage supporter.

As the most important college in Wales – and a significant employer, with greater than 7,000 workers – we’re an formidable and progressive college positioned in a gorgeous and thriving capital metropolis. We are able to give you the prospect to work in a vibrant organisation, with nice advantages and alternatives for development.

Date advert posted: Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Cut-off date: Tuesday, 2 April 2024

Please bear in mind that Cardiff College reserves the suitable to shut this emptiness early ought to ample functions be obtained.

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working atmosphere. We consider this may be achieved by attracting, creating, and retaining a various vary of workers from many various backgrounds who’ve the ambition to create a College which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and financial obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our staff to attain a steadiness between their work and their private lives, we may also take into account proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.

Cardiff College is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation (DORA), which implies that in hiring and promotion choices we’ll consider candidates on the standard of their analysis, not publication metrics or the identification of the journal by which the analysis is printed. Extra data is out there at:

Publish Reference Quantity

18309BR

Job Description

Fundamental Duties and Obligations

• To undertake analysis with mother and father, youngsters, and academics on the Neurodevelopment Evaluation Unit (NDAU) within the Cardiff College Centre for Human Developmental Science (CUCHDS)
• Aiding with recruitment and liaising with schoolteachers to finish youngster referrals into the NDAU
• Knowledge entry and cleansing, and multivariate evaluation
• To keep up and replace space of specialist data, researching and critically appraising related literature throughout the space.
• To contribute and assist analysis funding bids as required

Different

• To take part in Faculty administration and actions to advertise the Faculty and its work to the broader College and the surface world
• To endure private {and professional} improvement that’s acceptable to and which is able to improve efficiency.
• To make sure that an understanding of the significance of confidentiality is utilized when endeavor all duties
• To abide by the College insurance policies on Well being and Security and Equality and Range
• Every other duties not included above, however in step with the position.

Wage Vary Max.

34,980

Grade

Grade 5

Wage Vary Min.

32,332

Job Class

Educational – Analysis

Extra Data

Cardiff Faculty of Psychology
We’re recognised internationally for sustained excellence in analysis, influence and research-led instructing. We’re a big Faculty with over 50 tutorial workers, over 600 undergraduates and 150 postgraduate college students. Within the final evaluation the Faculty attained the very best ranking of ‘wonderful’ for its instructing from the HEFCW Educating High quality Evaluation Panel.

Many people within the Faculty are main figures of their analysis areas. Within the final Analysis Excellence Framework we entered as a unit of over 80 workers with our colleagues in Psychological medication. We have been positioned 2nd in our subject space throughout the UK. Now we have cutting-edge laboratories and experimental experience throughout the vary of psychology, and are at the moment constructing one of many largest and greatest outfitted imaging centres in Europe (see: websites.cubric.cardiff.ac.uk).

Our collective intention is to grasp the psychological and organic foundations of behaviour at each particular person and group ranges. The analysis undertaken within the Faculty ranges from ‘synapse to society’, and contains regular behaviour in improvement and maturity, the breakdown of cognition after stress, trauma and in neurological and/or genetic circumstances, in addition to key psychological problems with broad significance to society, similar to prejudice, reproductive well being and understanding threat. The Faculty additionally contributes to cross-disciplinary College Analysis Institutes in Neuroscience and Psychological Well being, Sustainable Locations, and Vitality Programs Analysis.

Cardiff College Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in analysis and instructing throughout a spread of topic areas, together with Social Coverage, Sociology, Criminology, Training, Social Psychology, and Social Work.

We ship a considerable programme of analysis, each elementary and strategic, funded by ESRC, AHRC, MRC, charitable foundations, the European Union, Central Authorities departments and businesses and voluntary associations. Within the 2021 UK Analysis Excellence Framework the Faculty was returned to 2 sub panels, Sociology and Training. We have been positioned within the high ten in every sub panel by grade level common, joint first for influence in Training and fourth total for analysis energy in Sociology.

The Faculty hosts numerous analysis centres and institutes, together with the College’s Police Research Institute (UPSI), now a part of the College’s Crime & Safety Analysis Institute; the Wales Institute for Financial Analysis & Knowledge (WISERD); the Kids’s Social Care Analysis and Growth Centre (CASCADE); the Centre for Growth, Analysis, Complexity and Implementation in Public Well being Enchancment (DECIPHer); the Cardiff Unit for Analysis and Analysis in Medical and Dental Training (CUREMeDE); and the Seafarers’ Worldwide Analysis Centre (SIRC). Most of the Faculty’s analysis centres are housed within the College’s Social Science Analysis Park (SPARK) – a world first, and a part of the College’s wider Innovation Campus.

The Faculty of Social Sciences holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award that recognises good employment follow and a dedication to develop the careers of ladies working in academia. Cardiff College is an equal alternatives employer and positively encourages functions from suitably certified and eligible candidates no matter intercourse, race, incapacity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, faith or perception, marital standing, or being pregnant and maternity. We actively encourage girls to use. We may also all the time take into account proposals for versatile working or job share alternatives.

Profession Pathway

Analysis

Individual Specification

Important Standards * A level in a related self-discipline, or equal expertise

• Expertise working with youngsters, younger folks, and their households in medical and/or analysis contexts
• Data of analysis strategies and strategies inside developmental psychology
• Confirmed means to analyse advanced data and summarise appropriately
• Skill to reveal the aptitude and drive to reach securing analysis funding
• Confirmed communication abilities, together with presentation to numerous audiences
• Wonderful organisational and team-working abilities
• Confirmed means to reveal creativity, innovation, and teamworking at work
• Skill to work flexibly the place required

Fascinating Standards

• Postgraduate diploma at MSc or PhD degree (or nearing completion / submission) in a associated topic space or related industrial expertise
• Proof of collaborations with stakeholders in analysis.
• Confirmed means to work with out shut supervision
• Confirmed means to adapt to the altering necessities of the Increased Training neighborhood.

The applicant might want to have a transparent Enhanced DBS verify.

IMPORTANT: Evidencing Standards
It’s Cardiff College’s coverage to make use of the particular person specification as a key device for shortlisting. Due to this fact, candidates should proof they meet ALL the important standards and, the place related, the fascinating.

As a part of the applying course of, you might be requested to offer this proof through a supporting assertion. Please be certain that the proof you might be offering corresponds with the numbered standards outlined within the particular person specification. Your utility can be thought-about based mostly on the knowledge you present for every criterion.

When attaching the supporting assertion to your utility profile, please make sure you identify it with the emptiness reference quantity: 18309BR.

Your utility can be vulnerable to not being progressed if you don’t proof you have got met all important standards. The college welcomes the submission of CVs to accompany proof of the job-based standards.

Please observe that these are additionally the factors shortlisted candidates can be assessed in opposition to at interview and/or by different means (e.g. a abilities check).

Anticipated wage

£32332 – 34980 per yr

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:28:06 GMT

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