Job Description
Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health.
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CAMH’s donor funded Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health (McCain Centre) is focused on enhancing and improving the design, delivery and effectiveness of mental health and substance use health systems, services and policies for children and youth aged 6-24. The McCain Centre combines evidence-based and innovative research techniques to ensure strong clinical utility and relevance in their initiatives.
The McCain Centre is also the home of the Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario Provincial Office (YWHO PO) which provides backbone services to Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO, www.youthhubs.ca) - a learning health system of 32 funded community-based networks of youth-serving organizations. YWHO is part of a broader pan-Canadian youth mental health system transformation initiative to build integrated youth services (IYS) where young people ages 12 to 25 years have walk-in access to youth-centered, community-based mental health and wellness services informed by youth, family members and service providers. This initiative engages youth, family members and other stakeholders through a co-creation process, ensuring services are designed and delivered according to their needs.
The McCain Centre together with the YWHO PO is currently seeking a full-time, one-year contract Scientific Associate. Reporting to the McCain Centre Manager and the Principal Investigator, the Scientific Associate will support CIHR funded projects that focus on understanding and improving the delivery of integrated youth services (IYS). The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and leading qualitative analyses of projects and include the following activities: providing support and supervision for required ethics approvals, qualitative data collection protocols and tools, qualitative data collection and analysis, and data management. In addition, the Scientific Associate will collaborate with the project team in understanding the functioning of the learning health system in IYS and youth social and emotional learning. Other responsibilities will include supporting the scientific team in creating, managing and monitoring detailed project work plans; working with research staff; grant-writing; and preparing presentations, manuscripts, and project reports. Opportunities for publishing research articles, grant writing mentorship, and academic and non-academic presentations may be offered. In addition, the successful candidate will have opportunities to support related IYS research, evaluation, and data projects.
As an employment equity employer, CAMH actively seeks First Nations, Inuit and Métis candidates, those from ethno-cultural backgrounds, women, transgender and gender diverse people, people with disabilities, people with experiences of mental health and substance use, and intersecting identities. The successful candidate will have sound knowledge of inclusive environments and will support and implement anti-oppressive and anti-racist best practices in the workplace. Understanding of and appreciation of systemic and personal privilege related to diversity, with ability to work with partners of diverse identities and ethno-racial and cultural backgrounds is required. As a McCain Centre team member you will ensure that McCain Centre values are implemented; particularly regarding anti-oppressive and anti-racist best practices and youth-centeredness.
This position is located at CAMH, 80 Workman Way, Toronto ON.

Job Requirements

• The successful candidate will have a PhD in Psychology, Education, Social or Behavioural Sciences (Health Services Research, Public Health, Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology), and have an interest in mental health and substance use research and strong qualitative and mixed methods research skills in study design, measurement and data analysis.
• The applicant must have previous experience in youth mental health and substance use research, school-based research, and healthcare improvement. Quantitative research experience analyzing mental health data at different levels (population, community and clinical care) is an asset.
• Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups such as health system administrators, school-based personnel, clinical experts, and youth and families with lived or living experience is required.
• Applicants must have a proven track record of research project development, and execution, as well as peer reviewed publications.
• Experience with data privacy, data management, and ethical guidelines to data use and ownership (e.g., Ownership, Control Access and Possession OCAP® Principles) is an asset.
• The successful applicant will have experience working with interdisciplinary teams and managing complex projects. Superior interpersonal and organizational skills along with analytical and problem-solving skills are required. The successful applicant will be a self-starter able to manage multiple projects with exceptional accuracy and attention to detail. Demonstrated superior communication skills, i.e., ability to explain complex issues in plain language both verbally and in writing in a prior work setting is required.

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