Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS. Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Research Fellow within the CHILDS programme, which is at the forefront of clinical-academic research for population health paediatrics. The Child Health Integrated Learning and Delivery System (CHILDS) team sits across Evelina London children’s hospital, the Department of Women and Children’s Health at King’s College London, and King’s Health Partners Women and Children’s Health clinical-academic group. The team will apply learning from the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership programme to several new projects, linked to NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London and South East London Integrated Care System priorities for children and young people. The team is clinical-academic, so this role will work across both sides, providing the main research link between teams. The post holder will have a key role in managing or conducting all aspects of the development and conduct of the population paediatrics projects, including evaluation design and conduct, data collection, data analysis, data visualisation, and the preparation of reports, papers and presentations. Main duties of the job We are looking for a mixed methods researcher with experience of working in a transdisciplinary team and on applied research projects. The post-holder will be the lead researcher on the population paediatrics team. The post holder will lead the assessment of child health and health service needs, intervention design and service and research evaluations. They will need extensive experience of using routinely collected health service use data, from secondary and primary care sources, for observational and interventional research. They will be expected to undertake a wide range of research activities (including rapid evidence reviews, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis) as well as drafting reports, peer-reviewed publications and assisting in developing research proposals. The post holder will report to Dr Ingrid Wolfe, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at King’s College London, Consultant in Population Paediatrics at Evelina London. Working for our organisation At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for women, children and families; as we continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs, we recognise the huge benefit of our workforce being reflective of the diverse communities we serve. We are committed to supporting the professional development of staff, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification for more information. As well as an interview, there may be a skills-based test. Person specification Qualifications/ Education Essential criteria BSc in related subject MSc in related subject Previous experience Essential criteria Demonstrated experience of qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and preparation of scientific reports Demonstrated experience of health service research, including managing health service or complex intervention evaluations Experience of analysing health service data, particularly large data sets Demonstrated experience of writing grant proposals and peer reviewed publications Highly competent in qualitative research methods and analysis, particularly in workshop and focus group discussion facilitation. Skills/Knowledge/ Ability Essential criteria Competent in quantitative research methods and analysis, with a working knowledge of statistical software packages, such as STATA, SPSS, and R. Good interpersonal and communication skills Excellent organisational skills and ability to balance workload, priorities and conflicting demands Ability to work independently without direct supervision Ability to work with other members of the team and create productive and professional working relationships Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Flexible working We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process. Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now." Applicant requirements The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Further details / informal visits contact Name Eleanor Wyllie Job title Programme Manager Email address [email protected]