Research Assistant (CONNECT Study)

Grade UE06: £29,619 - £31,411 per annum, pro rata for part-time roles

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Health in Social Science / Clinical Psychology

Fixed-term: until 31 January 2027

Vacancies available: 2

1X Full-time: 35 hours per week (1FTE)

1X Part-time: 21 hours per week (0.6FTE)

We are looking for motivated and creative candidates with a strong interest and background in the applied psychology of mental health. This is an exciting opportunity to be the Edinburgh and NHS Lothian site Research Assistant in the CONNECT study. The CONNECT study is a multi-site Wellcome Trust funded project which aims to identify relapse signatures using active and passive digital monitoring and data collection methods.

The Opportunity:

The post-holder will have some experience and interest in research on psychosis or in severe mental health problems. The postholder will be responsible for recruitment and assessment of participants in the study and will work closely with the Manchester Research Co-ordinator, the study Project Manager and the project team. The successful applicant will join the Section of Clinical Psychology in the School of Health in Social Science and become a member of the Contextual Mental Health Research Group.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Up-to-date theoretical and practical knowledge in working with people with severe mental health problems, particularly people who experience psychosis.
• Experience of using psychological self report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with people with severe mental health problems.
• Experience working with people with severe mental health problems in an NHS context.
• Proven ability to use initiative to efficiently plan, optimise and progress project and communicate findings.

Should you be interested, please submit an up-to-date CV and a Cover Letter.

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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.

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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.