Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed, compassionate and innovative Research Support Officer to support research which aims to explore the experiences of parents and carers of young people belonging to an ethnic minority group accessing mental health services for their child with suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders. The role-holder will be delivering 4 key streams of work, which include engaging patients and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) members in the research, conducting and analysing qualitative (interviews/focus groups) and quantitative(surveys) data from parents, children, health and education professionals.
The research is funded bythe NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfBP) Exploring the EXPeriences of Accessing services and understanding Neurodevelopmental Disorders for ethnic minorities in England EXPAND study.
This is a fixed-term post to 31st December 2025 at 1.0 WTE, with an anticipated start date of 1st July 2024 (18 months in post dependent on start date). The role holder will be within the Research Support Team at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) reporting to Dr Charlotte Hall, Chief Investigator on the EXPAND programme and Shireen Patel (co-investigator and work package lead) and Dr Camilla Babbage (co-investigator and work package lead).
The team provides consultancy services, research operations and research and evaluation delivery. The role-holder will be employed by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
- Support with reports to ethic committees and funders
- Identifying, recruiting and consenting participants (healthcare and teaching professionals and parents/carers of young people and young people with possible or definite neurodevelopmental disorders to participate in focus groups, interviews. The young people will be from ethnic minority backgrounds.
- Facilitating and actively engaging patient and public involvement
- Overseeing data collection and checking of data quality.
- Co-ordinating and conducting online interviews and focus groups and conducting a national online survey with health and educational professionals. Participants in the focus groups/interviews may not all speak fluent English and these focus groups may be conducted in different languages (interpreter support provided). Analysing and presenting data at meetings, reports for funders and publications
- Organising and attending team meetings
- Engaging with stakeholders from NHS and other academic institutions and other organisations, including the Centre for Ethnic Health Research
- Supporting the team with dissemination
- Assisting with other research tasks as agreed with their line manager.
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the research activities set out in the EXPAND programme led by Dr Charlotte Hall. The post-holder will be mainly based at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Nottingham; however, hybrid working is acceptable.
The IMH is one of the UKs leading multi-disciplinary mental health research centres, an innovative partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Nottingham. The IMH delivers both mental and physical health-based research projects, ensuring new knowledge and research findings are rapidly shared between campus and clinics.
Ensuring a safe and positive experience for research participants will be central to this role.
You will be an experienced researcher and/or hold a relevant academic qualification. This post requires excellent communication skills, well developed knowledge of and experience in the delivery of health research, governance, good clinical practice, understanding of IG and GDPR application to research. We would particularly welcome candidates who are from ethnic minority backgrounds (including Indian, Pakistani, Black African) or who have lived experience of engaging with these groups.
For further information please contact:
For enquiries about the post, IMH or NHCFT: Business & Operations Manager, Kathryn Bryan, Kathryn.Bryan@nottshc.nhs.uk
For further information about the EXPAND Research Programme: please contact Principal Research Fellow Dr Charlotte Hall charlotte.hall@nottingham.ac.uk or Research Fellow Shireen Patel Shireen.patel@nottingham.ac.uk
Interviews will be held online (via MS Teams).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the research activities set out in the EXPAND programme led by Dr Charlotte Hall. The post-holder will be mainly based at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Nottingham; however, hybrid working is acceptable.
The IMH is one of the UKs leading multi-disciplinary mental health research centres, an innovative partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Nottingham. The IMH delivers both mental and physical health-based research projects, ensuring new knowledge and research findings are rapidly shared between campus and clinics.
Ensuring a safe and positive experience for research participants will be central to this role.
You will be an experienced researcher and/or hold a relevant academic qualification. This post requires excellent communication skills, well developed knowledge of and experience in the delivery of health research, governance, good clinical practice, understanding of IG and GDPR application to research. We would particularly welcome candidates who are from ethnic minority backgrounds (including Indian, Pakistani, Black African) or who have lived experience of engaging with these groups.
For further information please contact:
For enquiries about the post, IMH or NHCFT: Business & Operations Manager, Kathryn Bryan, Kathryn.Bryan@nottshc.nhs.uk
For further information about the EXPAND Research Programme: please contact Principal Research Fellow Dr Charlotte Hall charlotte.hall@nottingham.ac.uk or Research Fellow Shireen Patel Shireen.patel@nottingham.ac.uk
Interviews will be held online (via MS Teams).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant health or social subject/discipline, (e.g. Psychology, Health, Social Sciences) or substantial employment history in the relevant field
Desirable
- Masters degree in relevant subject/discipline
Experience
Essential
- The post holder is required to have significant experience of conducting research in healthcare settings,.
- Experience of analysing quantitative and qualitative data sets, including thematic analysis
- Experience of conducting online surveys
- Experience of conducting focus groups/interviews
- Experience of engaging parents and young people in research or healthcare delivery
Desirable
- Demonstrable administration experience
- Training / facilitation experience
- Experience of undertaking focus groups or interviews with children and families.
- Previous experience of undertaking PPI/E work
- Experience (including lived experience) of engaging people from Indian/ Pakistani/Black-African backgrounds
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of neurodevelopmental disorders
- Knowledge of research ethics and obtaining informed consent.
- Knowledge and awareness of cultural adaptations in research
Desirable
- Knowledge of the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Knowledge of research methodologies
- Knowledge of NHS REC/HRA ethics
Skills
Essential
- Computer / IT skills including Microsoft Office, Database / Internet skills
- Ability to synthesis different forms of information
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and members of the Multidisciplinary Team, incl. ability to participate in and contribute to multidisciplinary team discussions
- Ability to educate and support colleagues, and parent/carers of patients
- Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to engage multidisciplinary stakeholders as research participants
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant health or social subject/discipline, (e.g. Psychology, Health, Social Sciences) or substantial employment history in the relevant field
Desirable
- Masters degree in relevant subject/discipline
Experience
Essential
- The post holder is required to have significant experience of conducting research in healthcare settings,.
- Experience of analysing quantitative and qualitative data sets, including thematic analysis
- Experience of conducting online surveys
- Experience of conducting focus groups/interviews
- Experience of engaging parents and young people in research or healthcare delivery
Desirable
- Demonstrable administration experience
- Training / facilitation experience
- Experience of undertaking focus groups or interviews with children and families.
- Previous experience of undertaking PPI/E work
- Experience (including lived experience) of engaging people from Indian/ Pakistani/Black-African backgrounds
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of neurodevelopmental disorders
- Knowledge of research ethics and obtaining informed consent.
- Knowledge and awareness of cultural adaptations in research
Desirable
- Knowledge of the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Knowledge of research methodologies
- Knowledge of NHS REC/HRA ethics
Skills
Essential
- Computer / IT skills including Microsoft Office, Database / Internet skills
- Ability to synthesis different forms of information
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and members of the Multidisciplinary Team, incl. ability to participate in and contribute to multidisciplinary team discussions
- Ability to educate and support colleagues, and parent/carers of patients
- Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to engage multidisciplinary stakeholders as research participants
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
