Community Engagement and Involvement Research Fellow

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE07: £37,099 to £44,263 Per Annum, Pro Rata ( **A revised salary range for this grade of **£39,347 to £46,974 **is planned to take effect from Spring 2024).**

**CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute.**

**Fixed Term available from 1st May 2024 to 31st May 2026.**

**Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week - Part time will be considered too.**

**Location: Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, Spring 2024.**

The Centre for Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Community Engagement and Involvement Research Fellow to deliver meaningful involvement with patient, public and community members, as part of a number of research projects.

**The Opportunity**:
We wish to appoint an outstanding Research Fellow to develop and deliver Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI). Playing a key delivery role across the Respiratory Portfolio, and potentially helping to extend high quality Involvement to other research areas in the Usher Institute, the post holder will be responsible for facilitating high impact public and community involvement in a range of research studies. They will build excellent working relationships with research collaborators, partners, funders and the public, including the provision of training and support for these different groups. They will use NIHR and Unicef standards in their work, and will develop new methodologies for research studies where required. Partnership working and leadership are key for this role, and the successful applicant will be enthusiastic, confident and have experience of working with different groups in a research environment.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- PhD (or near completion) in a health or social science discipline (Desirable).
- At least 2 years’ experience Community Engagement and Involvement / Patient and Public Involvement in research (Desirable).
- Ability to work in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of liaising with researchers, patients, public and healthcare professionals.
- Ability to work independently and to use initiative to move projects forward, as part of a team.

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Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages **(opens new browser tab).

**Work with us | Usher Institute **_- where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world. _**

Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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