Senior Research Fellow

About the Role

We are recruiting for two Senior Research Fellows. In these roles, you will be employed by Queen Mary University and hold honorary contracts with Barts Health NHS Trust. The successful post-doctoral candidates will work with our professorial team to lead research on understanding the healthcare needs of the local population, identifying key areas of system and service change, working with staff to support implementation of changes to local care pathways and evaluating and researching the outcomes of projects focused on three main themes:

• Transforming prevention and mitigations for people living with frailty, with long term conditions and multimorbidity.
• Leading edge rehabilitation and the recovery of older people following life changing trauma and illness.
• Cognition and older people’s mental health benefitting from extant strengths in dementia.

About You

You will have proven ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of clinical academics, health professionals and other key NHS partners and our wider community and a reputation in your subject and independence in your research including developing ideas and seeking (collaborative or individual) funding.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) is a pioneering and exciting collaborative venture between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London funded by Barts Charity with £6.6 million. ACHA will transform health and care services for older people in our local communities and further afield ensuring they remain as fit and active as possible. The Centre is embedded in Whipps Cross Hospital, which is central to innovative system reconfiguration in North East London, and also closely linked with teams at Queen Mary’s Whitechapel Campus.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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