AddressJob id: 085487. Salary: £43,205 - £45,52 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 28 February 2024. Closing date: 20 March 2024.
Business unit: Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. Department: Care in Long Term Conditions.
Contact details: Jackie Sturt. jackie.sturt@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Waterloo Campus. Category: Research.
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We are really pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as a Post-doctoral Research Associate for an NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research. We are looking for someone interested in developing their career in diabetes distress.
You will co-ordinate the day-to-day delivery of the first two projects with the programme. These include interventional co-design and a randomised feasibility trial. You will work alongside academic work package leads and two research assistants.
This is a five-year programme of research in diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes. In the project manager role you will support the recruitment of clinical sites, diabetes professionals and people with diabetes and family members to co-design a diabetes distress care pathway. Once developed, this care pathway will undergo feasibility trial evaluation using a stepped wedge trial design and realist process evaluation in four NHS diabetes services. You will hold responsibility for the ethical and regulatory approvals for these projects. You will contribute to a realist synthesis literature review underpinning the development of an initial programme theory aiming to propose how the care pathway may work. The programme team includes the following expertise: multiprofessional diabetes clinicians, diabetes-specialist psychologists, public and patient involvement and engagement, realist evidence synthesis, intervention co-designing interventions, realist process evaluation and clinical trialists. The feasibility trial may be undertaken in collaboration with geographically dispersed NHS sites in England and require some travel including occasional overnight stays.
The programme is hosted within the Research Division of Care for Long Term Conditions (current Head of Division is CI Prof Jackie Sturt) https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nmpc/research/research-divisions. The division has four research groups in diabetes, gastroenterology, mental health and older people.
We offer an active programme of staff development, seminar programmes, training, professional development, seed-corn funding opportunities.
This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract until 31.10.26.
This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.
Key responsibilities
Responsible for the day-to-day management of two projects with the programme, incorporating intervention co-design and a feasibility trial
Act as the main point of communication for the research team, recruiting sites and all other relevant bodies.
Contribute to a realist synthesis to develop an initial programme theory.
Prepare and submit ethics and regulatory approval, approval amendments, annual progress reports, contribute to reports to funders and manage communications with the Sponsor organisation.
Develop the feasibility trial protocol working closely with the chief investigator and work package leads.
Recruit and support four clinical sites to recruit participants, deliver the intervention and ensure high quality data collection.
Schedule and co-administering Programme Steering Committees, PPIE meetings and Project Management Group meetings.
Plan and monitor financial aspects of 2 projects including forecasting major expenses and identifying underspend/overspend.
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria
- Degree in a relevant life science or a health professional discipline
- PhD in a relevant life science or a health professional discipline
- Experience of working in partnership with long term condition populations
- Experience of financial planning of research budgets
- Experience of team working within complex project management contexts
- Excellent written communication skills in scientific writing and reports and good telephone manner.
- Ability to deliver information effectively through in-person and online discussions and presentations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical trial or intervention co-design methodology
- Understanding of NHS ethics, structures and research governance
- Experience of supervising other staff
- Willing to travel occasionally within the UK flexibly to accommodate the needs of the project.
Further information
We are committed to continually improving the diversity of our workforce, and therefore we encourage applications from all groups. This includes from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic groups, the LGBTQI+ community, those who are neurodiverse and those with a disability.
King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.
