To help organise and facilitate co-design workshops with community groups and individuals with lived experience of psychosis from Bangladeshi, Black African, and Black Caribbean backgrounds. Screening and recruitment of patients diagnosed with psychosis and patients at ultra high risk of psychosis. This will involve speaking to referrers regularly, attending clinical team meetings, visiting community mental health teams, hospital wards, as well as home-based treatment teams. There will be monthly recruitment targets for all studies.
The post-holder will be joining a team of research assistants to help meet these targets. Responsibilities include:
1. Completing eligibility screening assessments and seeking informed consent from patients.
2. Carrying out the assessments for the trials. The trial patients will be assessed on a range of measures at a number of time points for each study.
3. Arranging interviews and administering clinical interviews, assessment tasks, and self-report questionnaires.
4. Conducting assessments in clinic settings or at home across a large geographical area, including multiple NHS trusts such as Oxford Health, Northamptonshire Healthcare, Berkshire Healthcare, and Central Northwest London (Milton Keynes).
5. Maintaining blinding during assessments (i.e., you should not know which condition the patients have been randomised to) and reminding staff and patients not to disclose the allocation.
6. Reporting if you have become unblinded.
7. Ensuring high follow-up rates for trial participants, requiring excellent engagement skills.
8. Maintaining good record-keeping, including updating medical records with trial progress and managing recruitment databases.
9. Following standard operational procedures for the trial and NHS Trust policy regarding safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children.
10. Producing regular reports on the recruitment process and assessment.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
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