Research Fellow - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham
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Position Details
Institute of Applied Health Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,585 to £54,395 with potential progression once in post to £61,198

Grade 8

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to August 2024

Closing date: 10th September 2023


Background


Birmingham Health Partners is a growing collaborative partnership between University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, WM-Academic Health Science Network, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Orthopaedic NHS Foundation Trust.


BHP's purpose is to deliver a shared vision of achieving health and economic impact through the effective deployment of research and innovation.

Our Rapid Evaluation Service aims to increase collaboration across partners and develop a process for clinical and academic leaders to collectively identify and set evaluation priorities with the region.

The service will use a range of qualitative, quantitative, and process improvement methodologies to evaluate service innovation and a range of interventions designed to improve health and care services.

In doing so it will disseminate relevant, practical, and topical learning to the local (and national) health economies.

The Rapid Evaluation Service is committed to move at pace, responsive to the needs of a partners and able to mobilise the appropriate resources in a timely fashion.

The Centre is managed by the BHP core team at the University of Birmingham.


Job summary
The post-holder will contribute to planning and establishing the new service, supporting its ongoing development and management.

Working with colleagues across the collaborating organisations, they will play an integral role in identifying and prioritising promising service innovations for evaluation.

In doing so they will design and undertake mixed-methods evaluations, work in collaboration with local teams leading these innovations, analyse findings, and plan and deliver high impact dissemination activities to embed these findings into NHS practice.


Main duties

  • To contribute to the development, submission and presentation of relevant bids and proposals to secure funding for evaluation and applied research projects.
  • To contribute to evaluation and applied research projects on behalf of the Service, working alongside and in collaboration with a range of employed and associate colleagues, and in partnership with BHP partner organisations.
  • Support topic identification and prioritisation, and patient and public involvement activities.
  • Provide advice to colleagues on relevant theories and methodologies to support high quality and innovative research.
  • Carry out rapid but rigorous reviews of published literature and evidence to support project scoping, data analysis and interpretation, and the production of project outputs.
Analyse data using appropriate methods, using established software packages where appropriate.

  • Contribute to high quality project reports and other outputs and participate in knowledge dissemination and impact activities that share learning from individual projects and across the centre's portfolio of work.
  • Contribute to the publication of findings in international high quality peer reviewed journals.
  • To promote the work of the Service and the broader BHP partnership both regionally and nationally.
  • To contribute to the creation and nurturing of local and national networks relevant to BHP priority areas and to use these to identify forthcoming opportunities for Service development, teaching, and research activity.
  • To identify opportunities for seminars and conferences and arrange programmes to meet these opportunities.
  • This list is not exhaustive, and the postholder will be expected to carry out duties in line with these responsibilities.

Person Specification

  • First degree or equivalent professional qualification; a Masters / PhD (or close to completion) in a relevant topic area (desirable)
  • Experience of undertaking evaluation and applied research in health and care and in the dissemination of research findings and learning.
  • Fluency in relevant health service evaluation concepts, theories and methods, and ability to contribute to developing new ones.
  • Qualitative and quantitative research skills, and experience of using routine data for applied research and evaluation purposes.
  • Ability to demonstrate understanding of methodologies for evaluation and applied research and how to implement these in practice.
  • Good interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with managers and staff within health settings, and with service users, family members and the general public
  • Excellent presentation skills and a collaborative and flexible approach to work
  • Excellent IT skills, with working knowledge of
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