North London NHS Foundation Trust are seeking a Research Assistant to work on the PETAL(Personalised treatment packages for adults with learning disabilities who display aggression in community settings)research programme, which is funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR)’s Programme Grants for Applied Science (PGAR) which is for a 66 months. It is conducted in collaboration with University College London and is led by led by Professor Angela Hassiotis who is a professor of psychiatry of intellectual disabilities and consultant psychiatrist at Camden and Islington Foundation Trust.
The post holders’ work base will be in University College London, where the study lead and trial manager work.
The Research Assistant will be responsible for supporting the recruitment of study participants and the collection of clinical data. You will be liaising with GPs and healthcare staff, conducting interviews and using questionnaires to conduct assessments. You will also be responsible for data management.
These posts offer an exciting opportunity for individuals who want to develop their research skills and work within a clinical environment. The successful applicants should have a primary degree in psychology or equivalent you should have experience of recruiting, assessing and following up patients in clinical trials and experience of managing data. We want to appoint someone who has excellent communication skills and experience of working with people with intellectual disabilities.
The posts will involve working with Intellectual Disability (ID) Services in boroughs under North London NHS Foundation Trust, as well as other sites supporting the study.
The appointed research assistant’s work base will be the Division of Psychiatry in University College London, where the study lead and the trial manager are based.
You will be provided with an induction to working for North London NHS Foundation Trust and a bespoke training programme for your role. Supervision in your role will be provided by the Trial Manager and Chief Investigator.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
A detailed description of the Research Assistant role and its essential and desirable requirements are provided in the Job Description and Person Specification.
A DBS criminal records check will be required. Some travel around the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey will be involved.
This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jan 2025