Research Practitioner
1 week ago
**UE05 £25,285 - £28,929 Per Annum**
**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences / Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic**
**Fixed-term (3 years)**
**Full-time (35 hours per week)**
**Two Positions Available
**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for two research practitioners to join our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, allied health professionals and scientists. The post-holders will perform a vital role, assisting in the running of clinical research studies on incurable neurological diseases such as dementias, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease.
The post-holder will disseminate clear information about studies to people with neurological conditions and other stakeholders, and encourage participation in research. They will manage appointments, take consents, collect clinical data including blood samples, co-ordinate sample logistics, as well as use modern data capture systems and web platforms to enter and maintain the data and run reports for researchers. The post is based in Edinburgh but there might be opportunities to travel to other collaborating centres throughout Scotland.
The Anne Rowling Clinic integrates care and research in a state-of-the-art facility. A key goal of the Clinic is to offer opportunities for people living with chronic neurological conditions to participate in research studies including clinical trials.
**Your skills and attributes for success**:
- Previous care or nursing experience
- Previous research experience, especially if this is relevant clinical research
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate appropriately, and with discretion, with patients, carers, healthy volunteers and colleagues
Click **here **for a copy of the full job description
**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. Access our **staff benefits page **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.
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