Research Assistant (Fixed Term)

Department of Psychiatry,  Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness

Full Time, Fixed Term 10 months

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing research programme concerning children and young people's mental health; the ChARM group as a Research Assistant. The post-holder will be based in Nottingham and work as a Research Assistant to support a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded programme, "ATTEND", led by Professor Tamsin Ford. The ATTEND programme comprises of five interrelated work packages to evaluate a novel mindfulness intervention for adolescents with relapsed depression.

The current post will be based at one of six trial sites across England, supporting the successful running of a multisite hybrid clinical and cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial (work package 3), under the direction of the Site Lead Dr Tim Sweeney, the Trial Manager, Gemma Giove-Hunt, and the Programme Manager, Dr Rachel Hayes. This will include supporting the Nottingham site's recruitment and assessment of young people and carers, assisting with intervention delivery, and data entry and management. The postholder will also liaise with the wider study team including collaborators at the University of Cambridge and several other universities and NHS trusts, such as Exeter, King's College London, Sussex, Oxford, and Surrey.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and motivated person. They will have an interest in working with young people with mental health difficulties and in developing and evaluating new psychological interventions.  They will be highly organised with excellent communication and engagement skills. They will work well with others and independently, show initiative when faced with challenges, and have good problem-solving skills.

We welcome applicants who would like to use this opportunity to develop further research proposals, fellowship applications, or other grants.

Key responsibilities:

• To assist the project team in all aspects of project delivery.
• To attend regular meetings with the work package leads, project team, and advisory group.
• To actively promote and support patient and public involvement and engagement in the project.
• To take a central role in coordinating and maintaining trial recruitment in Nottingham.
• To complete assessments of young people and carers at this site.
• To ensure robust data collection, entry, and management.
• To assist in delivering the intervention as required.
• To complete exit interviews with participants for qualitative analysis.
• To assist in delivery of training workshops as required.
• To maintain excellent communication with other trial sites.
• Any other duties appropriate to the grade and project as agreed with the supervisor.

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Please ensure that you upload a covering letter and a CV in the Upload section of the online application. The covering letter should outline how you match the criteria for the post and why you are applying for this role. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

Please include details of your referees, including email address and phone number, one of which must be your most recent line manager.

The interview date for the role is: 24th March 2025

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

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