Job summary
- Main area
- Research Assistant
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 29 months (Full time, fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7168705
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clinical Research Unit, Hollins Park Hospital
- Town
- Winwick, Warrington
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/06/2025
Employer heading
Research Assistant, Neuroscience
Band 5
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The post holder will have a vital role in the delivery Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre M-RIC as part of research team, the post-holder will join a newly formed multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals and researchers committed to launching and developing the neuromodulation research for mood disorders as part of M-RIC research programme.
The post holder be responsible for delivering TMS, EEG research protocols, evidence-based standardised outcome measures. Maintaining good working relationships with service users, carers, clinic staff and other stakeholders will be key to the success of the role.
The successful candidate should have neuroscience background, well organised, capable of independent work, with strong interpersonal skills and a good awareness of the spectrum of mental illness.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities will include:
· The post-holder will join a newly formed multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals and researchers committed to launching and developing the neuromodulation research for mood disorders as part of M-RIC research programme.
· The post holder will recruit research participants and collect data for research studies and trials in the clinic, including TMS and EEG, evidence-based standardised outcome measures e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7 and a range of other measures.
The post holder will deliver TMS and EEG research protocols and perform analysis of EEG data.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details of this role or contact the recruiting manager for more information.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to interview and perform assessments with service users in a safe, sympathetic and courteous manner.
- Able to respond sensitively to emotional distress.
- Be aware of stigma & discrimination of persons with mental health difficulties.
- Demonstrable knowledge of confidentiality issues.
- Demonstrable knowledge of patient and staff safety issues.
- Ability to converse with internal & external services & able to accept & convey telephone messages in a precise & courteous manner.
- Clear & unambiguous written communication skills.
- Organisational & prioritisation skills.
- Excellent data entry skills.
- Ability to use Microsoft Word to produce reports.
- Ability to file effectively.
- Sufficiently adaptable to learn and use new technology.
- Ability to travel across Trusts sites.
- Willingness to adapt working hours to match the needs of the project.
- Requirement to travel to various sites/ locations across the NW region, therefore you must have the means to travel to these sites in a timely manner.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A degree (2:1 or above) in Neuroscience/ Clinical Neuroscience or related discipline.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with Neuromodulation e.g. TMS or Neuroimaging techniques e.g. EEG or fMRI.
- Good awareness of a range of different mental illnesses.
- Familiarity with undertaking structured and semi- structured interviewing.
- Understanding of research governance and ethics.
Desirable criteria
- Familiarity with a range of research methods.
- Experience of engaging different demographic groups in research.
- Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jade Thai
- Job title
- Senior Research Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 664000
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