As the Senior Research Assistant, your main duties will be:
1. To identify, recruit, and conduct assessments of mental health and well-being, neuropsychological/cognitive, and functional outcomes for people with psychosis;
2. To introduce patients to the study and the therapy;
3. To record outcomes;
4. To contribute to reports;
5. To support the engagement of patients in the study.
As the Sleeping Better trial Senior Research Assistant, you will work directly with other Senior Research Assistants, the trial co-ordinator/lead psychologist, and with the Sussex Principal Investigator Professor Kathryn Greenwood (Professor of Clinical Psychology) locally.
You will also receive expert training and supervision from international leaders in their fields and through the multidisciplinary research group (Oxford, Bristol, Glasgow, and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear). There will be opportunities to meet staff on other projects, from different disciplines, and to take up CPD opportunities to strengthen your clinical and research experience. Regular psychosis research lab meetings and Sussex Psychosis Research interest Group (SPRiG) seminars will further enhance your knowledge and skills.
The study aims to recruit individuals with psychosis or an At Risk Mental State to evaluate a new psychological sleep intervention in a randomized controlled trial. You can read more about the study here: Sleeping Better Study.
You will be responsible for the recruitment and assessment of participants, primarily in the catchment areas of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. A full driving license is preferred as travel to locations not accessible by public transport may be required. This position does not meet the threshold for skilled worker sponsorship for a health and care worker visa. We can only accept applications from candidates who do not require sponsorship and have an unrestricted right to work in the UK for the duration of the contract, or who meet the skilled worker threshold with at least 4 years of NHS-equivalent experience at the same professional level.
We seek highly motivated candidates with excellent communication skills, capable of building rapport with service users and staff, possessing strong research and IT skills, and able to conduct high-quality assessments with service users diagnosed with psychosis.
The R&D department at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust is a large, vibrant department with research assistants and clinical research practitioners working across various projects.
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