Researcher Development Advisor

at  Powys Teaching Health Board

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Supporting the Faculty’s dual objectives of being a national research funder of personal awards and providing high quality, needs led career development support for health and care researchers in Wales, the Researcher Development Advisors play an integral role in delivering these responsibilities within the Faculty.
The successful candidates will demonstrate a well-established research career having successfully led research bids, have in-depth knowledge of research funder requirements and processes and hold a proven track record in supporting and developing early career researchers.
The Faculty are looking to appoint a maximum of 3 roles to job share up to 1.2wte on a secondment or fixed term basis for 2 years starting in April 2025. Appointments will be made to ensure adequate service provision to both health and social care researchers and therefore a minimum of 0.4wte will be dedicated to appointing a Researcher Development Advisor with social care research expertise. Each role will be expected to work a minimum of 0.4wte (2 days per week).

The Faculty Researcher Development Advisor(s) will develop and deliver high quality applied health and social care researcher developmental approaches for Health and Care Research Wales Faculty Members that enables members to:

• Develop high quality competitive funding applications for submission to UK wide national peer reviewed funding programmes.
• Deliver funded high quality impactful health and social care research for the benefit of people in Wales and beyond.
• Progress their research knowledge, skills and confidence so that they ultimately can contribute to the development of a highly skilled academic health and social care research workforce in Wales.

This is a Health & Care Research Wales post, hosted by Powys Teaching Health Board.
Health and Care Research Wales is a networked organisation, supported by Welsh Government, which brings together a wide range of partners across the NHS in Wales, local authorities, universities, research institutions, third sector and others.
Health and Care Research Wales works in support of Welsh Government’s overarching goal which is to ensure that today’s research makes a difference to tomorrow’s care.
Its mission is to promote, support and provide collective oversight of health and social care research in Wales. Ensuring it is of the highest international scientific quality, is relevant to the needs and challenges of health and social care in Wales and makes a difference to policy and practice in ways that improve the lives of patients, people, and communities in Wales.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply

Please refer the Job description for details