PRA - Strategic Lead for Social Care

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Job description:

The Role

The NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) provides expert guidance and input to applied health, public health and social care researchers on the design and delivery of research and the development of research funding applications.

The NIHR RSS operates as a national service allowing researchers to access the most appropriate support, irrespective of location. The NIHR RSS is delivered through RSS Hubs and Specialist Centres (in Public Health and Social Care), each a partnership of research organisations and groups. The NIHR RSS offers a wide range of research support and methods expertise.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the NIHR RSS Hub delivered by Newcastle University and Partners as a Principal Research Associate working as the Strategic Lead for Social Care, across a national footprint.

This is a key senior research leadership role with significant external focus at national level, leading the development, strategic management and expert delivery of the RSS Hub's Social Care strategic objectives to increase research capacity in Social Care. The post holder will work proactively with the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Social Care, NIHR School for Social Care Research, NIHR RSS National Collaborative, RSS Directors, leaders in adult and children's Social Care settings, methodological teams, experts by experience, practitioners, and other stakeholders in the development and delivery of the RSS Social Care vision and plan. The post holder will also implement capacity development activities and training.

The successful post holder will work with researchers from across health and care including from NHS, public health, social care, higher education institutions, local authorities, the third sector, and NIHR infrastructure regionally and nationally who are preparing applications for national peer-reviewed funding for health and social care research.

The successful applicant will also play a key role in building research capacity as part of a range of activities and will support the promotion of the NIHR Research Support Service through a variety of mechanisms.

The role is available up to 1 whole time equivalent (37 hours per week), fixed term until 30 September 2028.

For informal enquiries, please contact rssSMT@newcastle.ac.uk.

To apply, applicants should provide evidence of how they meet the essential criteria required for the role outlined in the job description/person specification by uploading a letter of application along with a Curriculum Vitae (CV).

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