Location: | Redruth |
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Salary: | £31,500 (with annual pay awards on 1st April 2025) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 29th October 2024 |
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Closes: | 18th November 2024 |
Job Ref: | 4032 |
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.
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Essential Criteria
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