Research Fellow – Hull Trains Jobs In Kingston upon Hull

Overview

Position Title: Research Fellow

Company: Hull Trains

Location: Kingston upon Hull, UK

Job Description

The Band 7 Research Fellow will work with our research team, across three sites to undertake interviews with homecare worker, service users and their families, homecare managers, and other health professionals, and analyse, write up and disseminate research findings.

Responsibilities:

• This exciting post is available as part of the SUPPORTED project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
• This project is a collaboration between the University of Hull, King’s College London, the University of Sheffield, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The SUPPORTED study aims to explore the best ways to support and train homecare workers to deliver good end-of-life care.
• Homecare workers, alongside other health staff, play a vital role in providing quality care for people wishing to stay at home at end-of-life.
• This study will help us understand the experience of homecare workers, their clients, homecare managers and other health staff involved to develop appropriate end-of-life skills and support for homecare workers.
• We will use the knowledge gained to inform the content of a training resource for homecare workers.

Requirements:

• The post-holder will be based within the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre (https://www.hyms.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/wolfson ) and work closely with the Social and Psychological Research in Long-term Conditions (SPARC) research group (https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/research/groups/social-and-psychological-research-in-long-term-conditions-sparc ).