Research Associate - Ambulatory Care

Job Purpose

The vision for this new research group, led by Professor Dan Lasserson, is to generate the evidence for the NHS to deliver an acute medical care pathway that maximises ambulatory care. The NHS Five Year Forward View, the Royal College of Physicians’ Future Hospital Programme and the Primary Care Workforce commission all call for greater integration between primary and secondary care and our research group will tackle one of the biggest challenges for the NHS – how to meet the rising demand for acute medical care with a static or indeed shrinking hospital bed base. We will test how acute assessment, treatment and monitoring can be delivered out of hospital and deliver an improved patient and carer experience. This role is to support an early career researcher who will undertake a PhD while working as a research associate supervised by Prof Dan Lasserson. This is great opportunity to gain experience of developing research proposals and data collection methods together with analysis and interpretation of data on the path to academic independence. We plan to conduct studies in acute clinical settings using quantitative and qualitative techniques, including ethnography, as well as large database epidemiology.

Person Specification

• Degree or equivalent in relevant subject area
• Experience of acute clinical settings (either from previous research activity or clinical training/practice)
• Experience of analysing information and effective communication
• Ability to undertake a connected series of studies sufficient to form a PhD.
• Demonstrable trajectory for developing research independence