Research Assistant

Job overview

This vacancy is only open at this stage to internal employees of the following organisations within the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System:

• Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
• University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, inclusive of Black Country Procurement Group and North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service.
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience of working with mental health service users to support the BOOST-3 trial, evaluating the efficacy, mediators and targeting of a video feedback intervention for positive parenting, for mothers and birthing persons with moderate to severe non-psychotic perinatal mental health difficulties, and their babies.

Main duties of the job

You will carry out patient recruitment and data collection across participating perinatal mental health and parent-infant services. The post will involve office-based working alongside travel across the West Midlands region to clinical sites and participants’ homes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn To carry out patient recruitment and data collection for the trial across participating perinatal mental health and parent-infant services in the region.
• To ensure the trial is conducted in accordance with GCP and other applicable legislation for Clinical Trials, and the General Data Protection Regulation
• To assist with monitoring the trial progress to ensure adherence to the project plan and to identify, evaluate and rectify problems at trial sites as soon as they arise.
• To establish and maintain close working relationships with participating perinatal mental health and parent-infant services in the region.
• To work across participating perinatal mental health and parent-infant services to recruit mothers and birthing persons