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Patient Engagement Research Facilitator

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Feb 2, 2017

Job Details

Part-time, 60% full-time equivalent

Fixed term for 12 months

The Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre wishes to appoint a Research Facilitator with extensive experience in patient and public engagement in medical informatics research and enabling the analysis of health data from a variety of sources. You will work in close partnership with research colleagues, patients, carers and associated groups.

You will work independently and proactively to provide a high level of essential support to the research studies within the MRC Centre’s patient and public engagement programme on various aspects of its conduct and administration. You will also be expected to take the lead on identifying opportunities to develop administrative and research processes in the areas of patient engagement and support.

You will have significant experience in the field. You will ideally have experience in working nationally and locally in patient engagement around the use of data for medical informatics research. You will have a significant profile in managing patient and public engagement exercises, working in any of the clinical disciplines in which Leeds is a recognised national leader.

A track record in facilitating patient dialogue, engagement and supporting the linkage of different datasets is especially desirable.

The University of Leeds is committed to providing equal opportunities for all and offers a range of family friendly policies (http://hr.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/4/policies). The University is a charter member of Athena SWAN and holds the Silver award. The School of Medicine gained the Silver award in 2016.  We are committed to being an inclusive medical school that values all staff, and we are happy to consider job share applications and requests for flexible working arrangements from our employees.

University Grade 7 (£32,004 – 38,183 p.a. pro-rata) depending on qualifications and experience.

Informal enquiries regarding the post should be directed to Chris Carrigan, email c.m.carrigan@leeds.ac.uk  

If you have any specific enquiries about your online application please contact Joe Logan, HR Assistant, tel +44 (0)113 34 30481, email j.logan@adm.leeds.ac.uk.

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