Research Assistant

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 • Assisting with research projects, designing, collecting and analysing data, reporting and liaising with stakeholders • Communicating about and promoting the work of the Research and Innovation department through appropriate media (personal interaction, websites, social media) • Delivering national NIHR portfolio research activity to time and target • Administering questionnaires, disease specific assessment scales, collection of samples including blood, saliva and urine • Providing education and support to other staff about research methods, acting as a resource for those wishing to undertake research projects • Travel to Keele University and across the geography of the Trust as required by specific projects • Supporting the work of the mobile research units Job description Job responsibilities 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 • Assisting with research projects, designing, collecting and analysing data, reporting and liaising with stakeholders • Communicating about and promoting the work of the Research and Innovation department through appropriate media (personal interaction, websites, social media) • Delivering national NIHR portfolio research activity to time and target • Administering questionnaires, disease specific assessment scales, collection of samples including blood, saliva and urine • Providing education and support to other staff about research methods, acting as a resource for those wishing to undertake research projects • Travel to Keele University and across the geography of the Trust as required by specific projects • Supporting the work of the mobile research units