Research Officer - ChAPTRe

Hours: Part-time, 14 hours per week; usual working hours Monday to Friday 9 to 17 (there is flexibility on the days, but candidate must be available to attend meetings on Wednesday). Flexible working is possible.

Salary: £30,000 per annum FTE, plus 6% contributory pension scheme.

Anna Freud is a world-leading mental health charity for children, young people and their families. Our mission is to close the gap in wellbeing and mental health by advancing, translating, delivering, and sharing the best science and practice with everyone who impacts the lives of children, young people and their families. More information about Anna Freud is available on our website: http://www.annafreud.org/about/.

We value diversity and aim to have diverse workforce that reflects the community and our service users, in line with our vision, values and inclusion commitments. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

We are looking for a Research Officer to work on a 3-year evaluation of the government’s Start for Life Programme (currently in its second year). Start for Life aims to support families during the “critical first 1001 days”- from pregnancy until the child is two years of age. More details are available here: The best start for life: A vision for the 1001 critical days. The programme is currently being delivered in 75 Local Authorities in England and will provide investment in services to support perinatal mental health, parent-infant relationships, and infant feeding. The evaluation aims to determine if and how the programme is improving a range of outcomes for infants and their parents and carers.

The post-holder will form part of the evaluation team and will be involved in a broad range of research activities. The tasks will include recruitment and retention of families for longitudinal research, conducting interviews with parents and carers, working with Local Authorities to imbed routine outcome measures, supporting questionnaire data collection, supporting Public and Patient Involvement in the overall evaluation, maintaining databases, processing large amounts of qualitative data, data analyses and reporting.

The successful candidate will be one of three Research Officers within the project, working with the Project Lead and two Peer Researchers. The working pace will be variable across the project and there will be some extremely busy times when data collection is well underway, but you will have a lot of opportunities. In particular you will have an opportunity to work on a large scale national evaluation that can make a difference to government policy through the support of an extremely caring and supportive team.

Please email recruitment@annafreud.org with any job enquiries, or if you require assistance or experience difficulties when applying. Please note that successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their Right to Work in the UK post-job offer – we do not hold a sponsor licence therefore we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.

Location

Hybrid working (a mixture of onsite and home/remote working). Staff are working onsite for at least 20% of their working hours, either at our London site (4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH) or our Northern Hub (Huckletree, The Express Building, 9 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester M4 5AD).

Contract duration

Fixed term until 31 July 2026

Closing date for applications

Midday (12pm), Tuesday 3 September 2024.

Please note that due to high application volumes, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply promptly and to keep an eye on our future vacancies for more opportunities.

Notification of interview

Shortlisted applicants will be notified no later than Tuesday 10 September 2024. During shortlisting, applicants are anonymously assessed using the criteria visible in the Job Profile. Please note: due to the high volume of applications received, we will not be able to provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

Interviews

Interviews will be held on Monday 16 and/or Tuesday 17 September 2024

How to apply

Please visit www.annafreud.org/careers/, via the 'Apply' button above, to register an account and apply online. We are unable to accept CVs and kindly request no contact from agencies.