The Nottingham Young People Gender Service (NYGS) at the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit an enthusiastic senior research assistant to work under the supervision of the head of research of the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health network (NCTHnet) to lead the research and service evaluation for the newly developed NYGS under the supervision of the head of research.
NYGS are recruiting to a new team comprising Consultant Psychiatrist, Paediatrics, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Clinical Psychologists, speech and language therapist and Research assistants. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop much needed research projects and longitudinal studies leading the way nationally and international in children and young people’s Transgender Health.
The post holder should be an experienced research assistant who will act as a research lead at NYGS under supervision. They will:
Support the development of research and service evaluation projects related to NYGS.
Manage research and service evaluation projects related to NYGS.
Supervise day to day junior research assistants and students in developing and conducting research.
Support to develop applications and proposals for external research funding.
Offer collaborative consultation to research projects and provide expert advice in relation to research design, analysis, and statistical procedures to clinical and research staff.
Develop database to undertake longitudinal clinical studies related to transgender health.
Assist in the analysis of data and write-up of research
projects.
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
NYGS is a multi-disciplinary service offering psycho-social support to young people on the gender affirming medical pathway and looked after by the adolescent endocrinologist service in Leeds and UCL, London. This new service (NYGS) service will work to NHS England’s published interim service specification for specialist gender incongruence services for children and young people (Interim Service Specification).
NYGS will sit within the established NCTH Network which provides the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health Adult Service, the East of England Gender Service, the Linked Clinic activity with Indigo Gender Service and the Linked Clinic activity with the Sussex Gender Service.
This advert closes on Thursday 27 Jun 2024
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