Senior Researcher

An exciting acting up opportunity for a Band 7 Senior Researcher has arisen in Specialist Children and Young People's Services (SCYPS). This post is for a period of 12 months. This post offers unrivalled opportunity to undertake high quality research within an outstanding academic and clinical environment, We are looking for a motivated clinician with a passion to explore research. This pre-doctoral position is designed to build capacity in community child health academic research and to offer a talented and committed individual research training in this area. This might include work in all aspects and roles across clinical academic research, from designing trials and managing data to conducting practical research in a clinical setting and there will also be an opportunity to complete a PhD application by end of this post.

The post holder will report and be accountable to Dr Michelle Heys, Consultant Paediatrician (ELFT) and Associate Professor in Community and Population Child Health (UCL) who has a particular interest in health services research, participatory approaches and working with vulnerable groups, including Specialist Children and Young People's Services SCYP with complex neurodisability.