We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed, compassionate and innovative Research Support Officer to support research which aims to explore the experiences of parents and carers of young people belonging to an ethnic minority group accessing mental health services for their child with suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders. The role-holder will be delivering 4 key streams of work, which include engaging patients and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) members in the research, conducting and analysing qualitative (interviews/focus groups) and quantitative(surveys) data from parents, children, health and education professionals.
The research is funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfBP) Exploring the EXP eriences of A ccessing services and understanding N eurodevelopmental D isorders for ethnic minorities in England EXPAND study.
This is a fixed-term post to 31 st December 2025 at 1.0 WTE, with an anticipated start date of 1 st July 2024 (18 months in post dependent on start date). The role holder will be within the Research Support Team at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) reporting to Dr Charlotte Hall, Chief Investigator on the EXPAND programme and Shireen Patel (co-investigator and work package lead) and Dr Camilla Babbage (co-investigator and work package lead).
The team provides consultancy services, research operations and research and evaluation delivery. The role-holder will be employed by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Support with reports to ethic committees and funders
Identifying, recruiting and consenting participants (healthcare and teaching professionals and parents/carers of young people and young people with possible or definite neurodevelopmental disorders to participate in focus groups, interviews. The young people will be from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Facilitating and actively engaging patient and public involvement
Overseeing data collection and checking of data quality.
Co-ordinating and conducting online interviews and focus groups and conducting a national online survey with health and educational professionals. Participants in the focus groups/interviews may not all speak fluent English and these focus groups may be conducted in different languages (interpreter support provided). Analysing and presenting data at meetings, reports for funders and publications
Organising and attending team meetings
Engaging with stakeholders from NHS and other academic institutions and other organisations, including the Centre for Ethnic Health Research
Supporting the team with dissemination
Assisting with other research tasks as agreed with their line manager.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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The post-holder will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the research activities set out in the EXPAND programme led by Dr Charlotte Hall. The post-holder will be mainly based at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Nottingham; however, hybrid working is acceptable.
The IMH is one of the UK’s leading multi-disciplinary mental health research centres, an innovative partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Nottingham. The IMH delivers both mental and physical health-based research projects, ensuring new knowledge and research findings are rapidly shared between campus and clinics.
Ensuring a safe and positive experience for research participants will be central to this role.
You will be an experienced researcher and/or hold a relevant academic qualification. This post requires excellent communication skills, well developed knowledge of and experience in the delivery of health research, governance, good clinical practice, understanding of IG and GDPR application to research. We would particularly welcome candidates who are from ethnic minority backgrounds (including Indian, Pakistani, Black African) or who have lived experience of engaging with these groups.

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