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Chair in Youth Mental Health

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Nov 21, 2016

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Job Purpose The Chair in Youth Mental Health will lead a collaborative research platform across three major transdiagnostic domains: cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging and neurophysiology, and clinical phenotypic capture and psychopathology. The Chair will utilise their proven leadership qualities to help develop and lead an Institute for Youth Mental Health, and will develop excellence in others through leading by example and the mentoring of emerging research leaders and early career researchers. Person Specification The appointee will be an outstanding, internationally recognised academic with the vision and capacity to help shape and build the future of translational neuroscience in youth mental health. The appointee must possess a strong international presence in the early evolution and stages of mental ill-health in young people, with a demonstrated track record of excellence (via major competitive research grants and a substantial publication record in high impact journals) in one of the three major research domains. An extensive background of collaborative research in translational neuroscience, ideally with leading UK neuroscience and neurobiological researchers, is required. Additional expectations are that local, national, and international collaborations in translational neuroscience will be expanded, and the Chair will engage in advocacy and public discourse to promote translational neuroscience in the target population.

Essential criteria:
• The Chair will have attained recognition as an eminent authority in the discipline and achieved distinction at national and international levels as demonstrated through attainment of the specific criteria below:
o A distinguished career in research, including applied research, in the field of youth mental health, for example early psychosis, youth depression, or childhood-onset disorders.
o A PhD or equivalent folio of research, complemented by a significant record of substantial competitive research grants and successfully delivered projects, and a strong record of academic publications or critically assessed projects and professional recognition.
o A demonstrated capacity to engender and lead collaboration between the research and policy communities, foster research that anticipates and responds to policy necessities, and provide high quality advice to translational neuroscience.
o A demonstrated ability to organise and deliver research based training that enhances government capacity and policy response.
o A demonstrated capacity to contribute successfully to research higher degree supervision.
o Demonstrated excellence in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
o A record of providing high level leadership in a dynamic academic environment, ensuring a capacity to make a major contribution to the intellectual and organisational life of the university with the capacity to work collaboratively with colleagues both within and outside the university.
o A demonstrated capacity to influence public policy and professional practice, and contribute to scientific and public discourse.
o A proven capacity to lead change, with a high level of interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate, persuade and negotiate.

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