Closing date : 15th October 2025
Shortlisting to commence: 16th October 2025
Interviews to take place: 20th November 2025
With support from Theme Leads, the Senior Research Fellow, and a vibrant, established quality and safety research community that includes NHS staff and patients, you will contribute to the design and delivery of research that addresses local and national priorities for patient safety. You will be based in the 'Safer Systems, Cultures and Practices' theme, which explores the fundamental and practical issues of how safety is organised and enacted through the 'work' of safety and improvement. The research conducted within this theme aims to understand how organisational processes and governance systems shape, enable or constrain safety in different settings. The intension is to explore, develop and evaluate practical approaches for strengthening safety through the improvement of systems and practices, to both optimise and better understand the recursive relationships that exist between culture, systems and practices in different healthcare settings.
You will work closely with team members under the supervision of senior researchers and/or programme managers to support the delivery of patient safety research programmes. You will be an integral part of the team contributing to study design, recruitment and data collection and analysis. You will help with administrative support and data management. Other responsibilities might include literature searching, contributing to regular study updates, writing blogs to help promote the theme and our findings, writing publications and other dissemination activities. There is a strong focus on EDI and stakeholder engagement and impact. This makes the role an ideal position for those who are keen to build their networks, develop their expertise in safety science and deliver research that makes a difference to the safety of patients and their families and underrepresented groups. Support will be available from a Research Administrator. Mentorship and guidance will be provided by senior research colleagues.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
A Research Fellow posts is available within the prestigious National Institute for Heath and Care Research (NIHR) Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC). The Yorkshire and Humber PSRC is a 5-year partnership between Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Leeds, working with academics from the Universities of Bradford, Nottingham and Oxford.