Senior Research Fellow

About Us

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the  Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.

We are committed to staff development, and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.

About the role

This is an outstanding development opportunity for a talented and experienced researcher who wishes to advance excellent and innovative research on the care and support of children and young people with life limiting conditions and their families.

This research post will be working with our Chair of Palliative Care and Child Health, Lorna Fraser on an NIHR funded programme - Improving Care for children with life-limiting Conditions: developing, adapting, impLementing and Evaluating interventions (ICICLE). You will also have the opportunity to be a senior member of the CHILDS research group.

The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the protocol development, study setup activities (i.e. obtaining ethical approval) and conducting data collection, and evaluation across several studies within this programme. They will conduct the following tasks:  lead PPI activities; recruit for studies; undertake qualitative data analysis; facilitate co-production workshops; lead further grant applications; disseminate findings.

Expertise, knowledge, and experience of children with life-limiting conditions, complex medical or palliative care needs are necessary, and qualitative research experience is essential. Enthusiasm in developing/ continuing a career in palliative care or child health research will be beneficial and we are a supportive team that can assist with developing future grants and fellowship applications.

This is a part time post (28 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30/11/2029.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• PhD qualified in relevant subject area i.e. including but not restricted to health services research, palliative care, child health, psychology 
• Significant experience in a range of applied research methodologies including qualitative, systematic reviewing, mixed methods or quantitative skills 
• Proven successful independent, high-quality research in palliative care and/or child health including evidence of publications of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers 
• Significant experience in designing, developing and managing research projects   
• Experience of successful grant application, preferably as principal investigator 
• Strong interpersonal skills in one to ones and group settings   
• Excellent presentation and written and verbal communication skills  
• Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, actively addressing areas of potential bias 

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working with parents and young people with life-limiting conditions 
• Ability to lead and manage a research team 
• Previous supervision of PhD and MSc students 
• Previous experience of intervention development 

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