Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Statistics

Job title:

Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Statistics

Company

University College London

Job description

About us Our mission is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.About the role This post contributes to the children and young people’s mental health ‘challenge’ within a UKRI funded ‘population health cluster’, which aims to develop mental health intelligence systems to support school leaders, local decisionmakers and central government in planning / evaluating equitable mental health preventative interventions in children and young people.The wider population health cluster for mental health brings together stakeholders with diverse expertise and from different backgrounds to generate research for new, innovative and interdisciplinary solutions that take a public health approach to understanding and preventing inequalities in experiencing poor mental health.The post-holder will undertake quantitative analysis using the ECHILD database, South London CRIS data and survey data to estimate mental health needs which are both known and unknown to health services. The aim of this project is to examine whether preventative and early intervention programmes in England are fairly distributed according to local area and school-level mental health need.The postholder will be able to develop and consolidate their experience of using administrative data from education and social care and/or healthcare, including mental health data.The salary offered in this post is at either grade 7, £43,124 – £51,610 per annum or grade 8, £52,487 – £61,534 per annum and is funded for 3 years in the first instance.About you The post is suitable for a postdoctoral researcher trained in statistics, epidemiology, or a related discipline.Experience with one or more of the administrative databases within ECHILD and/or knowledge of mental health service provision to children and young people would be a significant advantage at Grade 7, and a requirement for Grade 8.This post is an opportunity to gain experience of national, research for policy using a large administrative database.The post is a good opportunity to take a leading role in writing peer reviewed publications that are relevant to national policy and practice.What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
On-Site nursery
On-site gym
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
Discounted medical insuranceOur commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/Available documents

Expected salary

£43124 per year

Location

North West London

Job date

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:28:28 GMT

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