The role offers an exciting opportunity for you to develop your applied research capabilities and understanding of managing transformation of inpatient mental health services. If you are interested in improving mental health services through applied research, this could be the role for you!
You will join an established team of friendly psychological professionals. Your role will be to engage in qualitative research fieldwork to examine implementation of service interventions and collate secondary data to monitor outcomes of service transformation over time. In addition to quantitative data gathering there is scope for additional smaller projects of audit, quality improvement and data analysis and dissemination of results throughout the service.
In addition to the lovely team of wider professionals, … you will be supported by a team of two Consultant Clinical Psychologists and two academics (from Warwick Medical School and Warwick Business School). Together we will develop peer reviewed publications, professional journal articles, and management reports to support service transformation. Thus the intention is that this project will influence inpatient mental health service delivery both locally and nationally.

Inpatient services are undergoing an exciting transformation programme, this research role forms part of the vital evaluation element of this transformation. There is more information on the attached supporting information, however the role includes the following functions;

• Primary qualitative research that involves interviewing key stakeholders in the transformation process which may include external people to CWPT and attending key meetings within and outside CWPT.
• Secondary research, for example collating relevant documentation such as strategic plans, audit and other data that shows emergent outcomes of the transformation, such as outcomes for service users and service costs.
• Collating data and producing accessible reports and making presentations to relevant stakeholders
• Contributing to the development of academic manuscripts and clinical reports.

In addition to the above you will be

• Embedded in the NIHR ARC WM – National Institute for Heath and Care Research, Applied Research Collaborative, West Midlands.
• Part of network of similar researchers in the region focused on ‘knowledge mobilisation’ that meet regularly

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we are expanding our research and innovation as part of aspirations to achieve University Trust status.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• Primary qualitative research that involves interviewing key stakeholders in the transformation process which may include external people to CWPT and attending key meetings within and outside CWPT.
• Secondary research, for example collating relevant documentation such as strategic plans, audit and other data that shows emergent outcomes of the transformation, such as outcomes for service users and service costs.
• Collating data and producing accessible reports and making presentations to relevant stakeholders
• Contributing to the development of academic manuscripts and clinical reports