Research Assistant - Cambridge, United Kingdom - University of Cambridge

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This is an exciting opportunity to join the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge working on the NIHR funded Tailoring Psychological Therapies in Wellbeing Services (TYPPEX) research programme in partnership with Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.


TYPPEX is a seven-year programme to develop, pilot and evaluate the effectiveness of an enhanced training programme for cognitive behavioural therapists working in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services, increasingly known as NHS Talking Therapies.

The training programme aims to help therapists deliver enhanced treatments to service users with complex depression and anxiety, indexed by the presence of low-threshold psychotic symptoms.


Now in year six, the programme is mid-way through a large, stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial, led from the main site in Cambridge.

The work includes collaborations with the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation, and the Universities of East Anglia, Brighton, York, Manchester, Dundee and King's College London.

Further trial sites are likely to open. The role of the successful applicant will be to support the delivery of the trial.

The appointee will be involved in a range of protocol-based research activities such as the remote/digital recruitment of research participants, providing support to participating therapists, data entry and cleaning, communications, administrative tasks associated with a large research trial as well as opportunities to contribute to high-profile academic publications and conferences.


While the RA will be expected to be in Cambridge (the office base) or other sites for meetings and other work from time to time, the role may be suitable for hybrid working.

Applicants must have (or be close to obtaining) a PhD.

Appointment at Research Associate level is dependent on having a PhD.

Those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD will initially be appointed as a Research Assistant (Grade 5, Point 38 £31,411) moving to Research Associate (Grade 7) upon confirmation of your PhD award.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
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