Research Fellow

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

The London College of Hygiene & Tropical Medication (LSHTM) is without doubt 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 data into coverage and follow.

We’ve got been funded to develop a brand new questionnaire-based instrument to measure care-work associated high quality of life.   This challenge builds on our earlier work that developed a framework to grasp the elements of the standard of life at work amongst direct care staff in England. The purpose of the present challenge is to finish the event and validation of the instrument.   We’re recruiting a Analysis Fellow to undertake psychometric analyses throughout 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 must also 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 must also have information and expertise of PROMs and analysis in social care. Candidates must also 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 submit is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and stuck time period till twenty eighth February 2026.  The submit is funded by the Nationwide Institute for Well being Analysis (NIHR) Analysis for Social Care (RfSC) and is accessible from 1st June 2024.

The wage will probably be on the Tutorial Pathway wage scale Grade 6 within the vary £43,947 – £49,908 each year (inclusive of London Weighting). The submit will probably be topic to the LSHTM phrases and circumstances of service.   Annual depart entitlement is 30 working days per 12 months, professional rata for half time workers. Along with this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is accessible. The submit relies in London at LSHTM.

Functions ought to be made on-line by way of our jobs web site . On-line functions will probably be accepted by the automated system till 10pm of the time limit. Any queries relating to 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 a vital a part of the choice course of and thus a failure to supply this data will imply that the applying won’t be thought of. A solution to any of the factors corresponding to “Please see connected CV” won’t be thought of acceptable. 

Please observe that if you’re shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it is probably not attainable to give you another date.

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