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Salary The post-holder will join The Life Rooms evaluation team in delivering multiple, excitingresearch and evaluationprojects running across several The Life Rooms' sites, with the aim of evaluating an innovative social model of health.
The post will include management of routinely collected activity data, quantitative and qualitative data collection, recruitment of participants, data analysis, and project work. The post-holder will also support patient and public involvement (PPI) consultation activities as part of the research and evaluation projects.
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.
-To assist in the set-up and facilitation of the research project
- To create, maintain and manager a large external database of quantitative data, anonymise data, input data into the database and keep it up to date
-To approach potential research participants and stakeholders using a variety of communication formats, in order to engage them in the research study
-To carry out any relevant psychometric test materials and structured/ semi-structured interviews whilst ensuring the safety and comfort of participants and yourself
- Where indicated, to follow-up research participants at agreed intervals
-To be aware of the psychological/emotional needs of research participants, responding and reporting appropriately
-To ensure that research procedures (including consent processes and follow up) are carried out according to the approved protocol and the UK policy framework for health and social care research
-To conduct reviews of electronic patient clinical notes, extracting and coding data for research purposes
-To score relevant tests make data anonymous,set up and maintain an SPSS database, and enter data into the database
-To ensure safe storage of paper data
-To help with the production of interim progress reports for the project funder and ethics committee
-To help to notify the ethics committee and the local research governance committee of any ongoing changes to the project
-To help to statistically analyse data using SPSS14. To assist in the preparation of manuscripts for publications using the study data
-To assist in the preparation of PowerPoint presentations using the study data
-To travel independently in order to engage the participation of others in the research
This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Apr 2024
