Research Assistant
The closing date is 22 May 2026
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.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
* First degree in health or social science (e.g., psychology, sociology, nursing)
Experience
* Experience working with people with mental health problems
* Experience of conducting and delivering high quality quantitative and/or qualitative research
* Experience of working on clinical trials
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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