Research Fellow in Community Wellebeing

ABOUT THE ROLE

Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, you will support the Principal Investigator in delivery of research activity on the project exploring attitudes of Health and Social Care Provision for Older South Asian (SA) Communities (with a focus in the Newcastle area). Your primary role will be to lead on mapping, organising and co-ordinating fieldwork (visits to care homes across UK) and participant recruitment, qualitative data collection using participatory methods, semi-structured interviews and analysis and co-design /PI/workshops. Must be able to speak, read and write in a South Asian Language (preferably Urdu).

 For further information see the job description. 

 We have 2 fixed term part time roles available - one for 6 months and the other for 12 months. 

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 therefore the successful candidates will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Please note interviews for this vacancy will take place on the 12th of November. 

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The health and social care needs of older South Asian (SA) men and women are not known. This work will look at who and where they will be cared for if they were unwell or unable to look after themselves. Older SA men and women who came from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are now in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Most men accepted labour work and most women stayed at home and looked after their families. Many of these older men and women now suffer complex health conditions and recent studies found that they were concerned about ageing and access to health and social care services. Fairness and access to opportunities are key to social justice within a society (UK Parliament, 2014). This development programme seeks to develop a partnership to co-produce along with members of the older South Asian community, an understanding of perceptions of older South Asian (SA) people and provider on access and opportunities to health and social care service provision. With a focus on their perceptions on residential and non-residential living choices as they age and live with complex health conditions including dementia. National policies recognise that there may be lower awareness and higher levels of stigma with different cultural understandings among the SA community. There is also research to highlight that people present later to general dementia services than their white British counterparts when their dementia has become more severe. (All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, 2013).

Funded by the NIHR Programme Development Grant, this project aims to develop a strong network/group of under-served older South Asian (SA) community members and health and social care partners and decision makers to discuss and prioritise key areas of health and social care service provision for healthy ageing in the SA community. The findings will inform health and social care decision-makers on understanding key areas to focus on regarding residential and non-residential health and social care research and provision for healthy ageing for older SA community in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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