Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7 or 8A depending on research experience
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term contract/Secondment: Renewable pending award renewal from external funder)
- Hours
- Part time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 434-C7058913-A
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Band 7 or 8A depending on research experience
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
This post provides a unique opportunity for someone resident in the UK to work alongside world leaders in spinal cord injury research and contribute to the first international study looking at rehabilitation outcome and length of inpatient admission. We are seeking someone with strong qualitative and quantitative research knowledge, project management and supervision skills who can produce high-quality publications from this research.
The ideal candidate will have a doctoral qualification in Clinical or Health Psychology, or clinically relevant PhD, have experience of conducting independent mixed methods research, including coding and analysing complex data sets.
The postholder will support the NSIC Psychology Team to deliver research funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). The grant is led by Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago. Other psychology collaborators work in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, sites in the USA, alongside the NSIC. The total grant is $4.2 million. The NSIC is partnering with 8 spinal cord injury centres in England, who are Patient Identification Centres, user charities and professional groups for recruitment. The contract is fixed term as the grant is re-awarded annually, the overall project is scheduled to run until September 2028. The NSIC Psychology Team have several other research partnerships and current grant applications being reviewed, further hours may become available in due course
Main duties of the job
The project commenced 18 months ago, and the current post holder is relocating abroad and is unable to continue. Phase one of the project involved people with spinal cord injury, their care partners and rehabilitation professionals, with representation being sought from across the 8 NHS England commissioned spinal cord injury centres.
The post holder will be involved with focus group analysis and survey development, recruitment, delivery, and analysis. Specifically, this will involve the post holder coding alongside the clinical research assistant and international partners, the phase one focus group discussion, which will inform the survey. The second phase will involve development and piloting of the survey with people with spinal cord injury. The third phase will involve recruiting 500 people who have experienced SCIC based rehabilitation from one of the centres in England and survey their experience and preparedness for community transition and life with injury.
The postholder will be working under the supervision of Dr Jane Duff, Head of the NSIC Psychology Service, Principal Investigator for the grant, and working alongside / provide clinical supervision alongside Dr Duff to a Clinical Research Assistant.
The post holder will need some flexibility as there will be occasional evening work due to the international nature of this research, such time can be taken back flexibly. The postholder will need to be able to work Tuesday or Wednesdays and be resident in the UK.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Proposed interview date: April 2025
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, health psychology or clinically relevant PhD
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience as part of a research team/clinical trial or post graduate applied psychology research
- Experience of undertaking research in NHS settings
- Experience of reviewing study documents and conducting systematic literature reviews, conference presentations, papers for publication.
- Experience of project management with excellent organisational and planning skills
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with combined psychological and physical problems
- Experience of providing research supervision to colleagues with varied experience of research
- Highly specialist knowledge of psychological theory and its application to people with spinal cord injury, their families and carers and ability to integrate this with wider psychological and disability theory
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients or family members who have lived experience of spinal cord injury, in a clinical or research capacity.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Excellent working knowledge and experience in using Office 365, including Microsoft Teams/Forms.
- Excellent knowledge and experience in understanding and implementing qualitative methodology, experience of transcription and using NVIVO for coding of qualitative data, Thematic Analysis and Directed Content Analysis.
- Excellent operational knowledge of handling large quantitative data sets, data storage and management.
- Knowledge of and proven use of statistical packages such as Excel, SPSS, and R and parametric and non-parametric analysis
- Evidence of recent GCP training and knowledge of ethical and legal protocols and maintaining a site and project log
- Proven ability to work to multiple deadlines, work effectively under pressure, and meet deadlines
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Experience with social media, website design, and research impact
- Skills in working alongside and liaise with other multidisciplinary staff based at the NSIC and wider national partners such as user stakeholder groups and international collaborators
- Ability to work autonomously within the structure of clinical supervision
Special circumstances
Essential criteria
- Ability to work remotely with occasional travel to Stoke Mandeville Hospital (or onsite working)
- Ability to work Tuesday / Wednesday
- Ability to do occasional evening work to collaborate with international partners (time to be taken back as part of working hours).
- Resident in the UK
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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 Jane Duff
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01296 838355
- Additional information
Applicants are welcome to contact Dr Jane Duff for further information - 01296 838355 or email [email protected].
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