Research Assistant London, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a range of psychological practitioners in Lewisham CMHTs to support us in delivering excellent care to our local population. A key aspect of this role will involve collecting and analysing data on service use, outcome measures for both individual and group interventions, and involvement in writing up research and evaluation for dissemination to a wide audience. We are particularly focused on increasing access to psychological interventions for ethnically marginalised groups and this role will be a key factor in monitoring our progress.
The successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree in Psychology or an undergraduate degree in another field with significant experience in mental health settings. They will also have experience in data collection and analysis, and presenting data in a variety of formats (including presentations and reports).
The main duties of the role will include working alongside a range of psychological practitioners and service users to collect data on their experience of therapy and their recovery, designing and maintaining databases, analysis of data (both qualitatively and quantitatively), and presenting data to a range of audiences.
Lewisham is a diverse borough and the postholder will work to engage with the local community and take their needs into consideration to provide an accessible service.
About us
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
- To support the development of a research pathway within Lewisham CMHTs
- To work alongside psychological practitioners to design monitoring systems
- To play an active role in the monitoring of the use of psychological therapy within Lewisham CMHTs & Lewisham Early Intervention Service
- To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a psychology service to the Psychosis Pathway in the Lewisham Community Mental Health Teams and personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To support the implementation of a stepped care approach to psychological interventions across the Lewisham Community Mental Health Teams.
- To undertake service development, evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
- To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
