Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology

Job id: 086487. Wage: £37,332 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 20 March 2024. Time limit: 02 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: IoPPN. Division: Psychology.

Contact particulars:Professor Patrick Smith. [email protected]

Location: Denmark Hill Campus. Class: Analysis.

Job description

That is an thrilling alternative to affix a Nationwide Institute for Well being and Care Analysis (NIHR) funded analysis programme, which is able to consider a novel mindfulness intervention for adolescents with despair.

The intervention, Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers (MAC), is delivered in small teams to older adolescents (15-18 years outdated) who’ve a historical past of despair, and to their mother and father and carers in separate parallel teams.  The analysis programme will examine MAC in a number of work packages:  (1) growing and delivering coaching and supervision in MAC for youngster psychological well being practitioners; (2) growing an App to assist between-group observe; (3) working a multisite hybrid medical and cost-effectiveness randomised managed trial; (4) investigating potential mechanisms of therapeutic change; and (5) growing an implementation toolkit.

The present submit is to assist the profitable working of the trial (work package deal 3) on the London website.  It will embrace supporting recruitment and evaluation of younger individuals and carers, aiding with intervention supply, and knowledge entry and administration.  The postholder will even assist the continued supply of a bespoke week-long experiential coaching programme for youngster psychological well being practitioners.

The profitable candidate will probably be an enthusiastic and motivated individual. They are going to have an curiosity in working with younger individuals with psychological well being difficulties and in growing and evaluating new psychological interventions.  They are going to be extremely  organised with wonderful communication and engagement abilities. They are going to work properly with others, and independently, present initiative when confronted with challenges, and have good problem-solving abilities.

The postholder will probably be based mostly on the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Denmark Hill, South London, working below the course and supervision of Prof Patrick Smith.  The postholder will even liaise with the broader examine crew together with Chief Investigator Prof Tamsin Ford at Cambridge College, and collaborators in Exeter, Oxford, Nottingham, and Sussex.

This submit will probably be supplied on a full-time, mounted time period contract for 12 months.

Key obligations

• To help the undertaking crew in all features of undertaking supply
• To attend common conferences with the work package deal leads, undertaking crew, and advisory group.
• To actively promote and assist affected person and public involvement and engagement within the undertaking
• To take a central position in coordinating and sustaining trial recruitment in London
• To finish assessments of younger individuals and carers at this website
• To make sure sturdy knowledge assortment, entry, and administration
• To help in delivering the MAC intervention as required
• To finish exit interviews with members for qualitative evaluation
• To help in supply of coaching workshops as required
• To keep up wonderful communication with different trial websites
• Every other duties acceptable to the grade and undertaking as agreed with supervisor.

The above listing of obligations might not be exhaustive, and the submit holder will probably be required to undertake such duties and obligations as might moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the submit.

Expertise, information, and expertise

Important standards

1.       Diploma in any life science (e.g. psychology, social science, medical neuroscience, occupation allied to drugs) not less than at 2.i degree or increased

2.       Expertise of recruitment to trials of psychological interventions

3.       Expertise of medical assessments of younger individuals and carers

4.       Expertise of knowledge assortment entry and administration

5.       Expertise of working with younger individuals

6.       Information of mindfulness based mostly psychological well being interventions.

7.       Information of despair in younger individuals

8.       Potential to indicate consideration to element and excessive requirements of accuracy in all features of labor

9.       Glorious interpersonal abilities, report and scientific writing abilities, means to ship info successfully by means of shows

10.    Versatile and problem-solving method to work

11.   Glorious IT abilities within the following areas:

•       Phrase processing

•       Spreadsheets

•       Communication software program

Fascinating standards

1.       Expertise of trial coordination or administration

2.       Expertise of contributing to the event and/or supply of coaching workshops

3.       Coaching and expertise in educating mindfulness

This submit is topic to Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.

We reserve the best to shut the advert sooner than the time limit if a enough variety of purposes have been obtained.