Research Fellow - Lutterworth, United Kingdom - British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

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Lutterworth, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

BACP is the leading professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in the UK with around 65,000 members.

Benefits include 25 days annual leave (for full time) plus Bank Holidays, flexi time, corporate yoga, health cash plan and 24/7 access to free over the phone counselling.

This role requires regular attendance to BACP house in Lutterworth.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to develop research projects and protocols, undertake research and evaluate outcomes in accordance with BACP's strategy.

To positively promote research awareness, facilitate and actively encourage research into the counselling professions.

Principal accountabilities:

Monitor, analyse and interpret developments within the field of counselling and psychotherapy research, identifying trends and debates, to support the creation and delivery of BACP's research strategy.
Identify, develop, appraise and disseminate information on counselling research to members and the wider counselling professions to support practice and improve standards.
Undertake research projects (internal, external and commissioned research) that contribute to the evidence base, write research reports and contribute to the preparation of funding bids to contribute to the evidence base.
Undertake systematic research literature searching and reviewing to support the development of BACP competence frameworks.
Develop effective relationships and collaborations and represent BACP by liaising with relevant key groups to contribute to building the profile of the organisation.
Disseminate research through a range of written materials and conference or event presentations to contribute to the evidence base.
Analyse and interpret evidence and contribute to the preparation of high quality timely responses to policy issues and consultation exercises from Government and other external bodies to support the Head of Research in ensuring that BACP's responses to such exercises are robust, credible and evidencebased.
Respond to students, practitioners and academics with enquiries and signposting to promote the development of research capacity in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Maintain develop and evaluate services provided to support and encourage practicebased research, and improve standards.
Sharing and communicating research expertise with colleagues to support and develop research skills across the department.

Knowledge & experience:

Indepth knowledge of research methodologies and experience of undertaking and disseminating research;
Ideally holding or working towards a relevant Masters degree, for example Social Sciences.
Experience of conducting systematic literature searching and reviewing, ideally to PRISMA guidelines.
Ability and experience of researching, analysing and summarising information, statistical data and complex issues into a clear, concise, accurate and accessible form.
Excellent critical appraisal and analytical skills demonstrating a high attention to detail and level of accuracy.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Enthusiasm for research with the ability to communicate research effectively to researchers and nonresearchers alike
Excellent planning and organisational skills; an ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise work to agreed deadlines.
IT literate; experience of using SPSS to analyse data.
An understanding of counselling and psychotherapy research
Excellent team player with the ability to work flexibly.
Prior experience of supporting the involvement of experts by experience (EBEs) in research and facilitating the administration of collaborative research groups would be desirable for this post.

Job Types:
Part-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 20 months

Part-time hours: 21.75 per week

Salary:
£31,720.00 per year

Benefits: