Research Associate/Fellow for the EMPOWER Dementia Network

Salary: Research Associate: £43,205-50,585; Research Fellow: £51,974-£61,021 per annum including London Weighting Allowance depending on relevant experience and skills.

About the role

We are seeking an innovative talented individual as the Research Associate/Fellow for the national Dementia Network EMPOWER- Empowering a Meaningful Life for All. The Network brings together strengths in dementia care, social care, primary care and palliative care, with lived experts and communities to realize sustained change to support and empower equalities in care for people living and dying with dementia, and their families. The Network is funded the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

This is opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and work within a multidisciplinary team across health and social care faculties at King’s College London and with our university and community partners, and lived experts by experience. The Network is led by Professor Catherine Evans, King’s College London with co-lead Dr Emma Wolverson, University of Hull.

The Network aims to identify, promote and sustain high-quality care for people with dementia and complex needs, and their families, for them to live as well as possible throughout the disease trajectory, including into end of life and bereavement.

You will take a leading role overseeing the co-creation of the Network with our partners and lived experts to build a springboard harnessing inclusive approaches for meaningful engagement and collaboration, technologies to innovate care, and enthuse and foster talented researchers, practitioners and community partners. You will contribute to refinement and delivery of the public engagement workshops and Policy Lab to create our Network Manifesto detailing our priorities for change, public engagement activities and ‘sand-pit’ events for small research project funding.

This is a full-time role, and you will be offered on a fixed term contract until 31st March 2028.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have these skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• A degree in health or social sciences or similar, awarded to a high level (e.g. first or 2:1)
• PhD awarded in health or social sciences or similar*
• A proven track record of programme management in research
• Experience in public and policy engagement
• Experience of involvement of lived experts by experience in research and/or community partners
• Highly organised, self-motivated, ability to work independently as well as part of a team, ability to work to deadlines and prioritise competing workloads, flexible and able to meet tight deadlines, ability to manage and support other staff
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to produce high quality reports and papers, demonstrating attention to detail and accuracy

*Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

Desirable criteria

• Research or clinical experience in dementia care
• Expertise in coordinating research networks
• Experience of making submissions to funders for research grants
• Utilising online platforms and social media to promote and engage communities and the public in research, and share and promote resources and outputs
• Publications, including blogs, reports, web content, academic papers

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