KTP Associate

Location: Redruth, Cornwall

Contract: Full Time (37 hrs per week), Fixed Term (24 months)

Salary: £31,500 (with annual pay awards on 1st April 2025)

Closing Date: Monday 18th November 2024

Reference: 4032

Detailed Description

The successful candidate will secure a 2-year collaborative Knowledge Transfer Project (KTP) position. The associate will learn about medical compression therapy and dynamic movement orthoses from experts at Heriot-Watt University and DM Orthotics Ltd, before leading a project to improve patient care. They will lead the development of a tool that facilitates the design of garments/orthoses that deliver a defined pressure and integrate this with DM Orthotics existing design systems. The Associate will use the new method to generate evidence for clinical efficacy for compression burns therapy, garments and orthoses.

This full-time position is funded by DM Orthotics Ltd and InnovateUK. The role will be based at Redruth, Cornwall and travel to Galashiels in the Scottish Borders will be required from time to time throughout the project. DM Orthotics hope to offer a permanent post to the Associate after completion of the project.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and set-up extensive laboratory experiments and clinical tests to establish key properties of materials for medical compression and orthoses
• Lead the analysis and interpretation of research data, and develop required outputs drawn from the research findings
• Investigate and implement new design and production processes, using pattern cutting software, based on effective use of test data and clinician input
• Plan and manage the activity of the project in line with the identified workplan
• Contribute to, and lead, results dissemination
• Contribute to identifying business opportunities that new insights and methods open up
• Actively participate in the activities of the wider business

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential Criteria

• A first degree in textiles, fashion or mechanical or textile engineering
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Excellent organisational/project planning skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent laboratory skills or demonstrable capacity to learn them
• Good IT and report writing skills
• Good team player with good interpersonal skills
• Capacity for independent work
• The candidate must be comfortable with numbers and possess basic data analysis skills
• The candidate must be a creative problem solver
• Empathetic, with a genuine commitment to improving patient care 

For all criteria, further details and how to apply please click on the 'Apply' button above.

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