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Julia Anderson Health Data Science Trainee  

This role presents an exciting opportunity to gain experience working in a talented, multidisciplinary research team that uses data and evidence to understand healthcare system performance and inform improvements in patient safety and quality of care.  

The trainee will contribute to the collation, structuring, and analysis of publicly available NHS datasets and policy documents. This will include working with structured and unstructured information to develop analysable datasets, supporting analytical workflows, and contributing to academic and non-academic outputs that inform national policy.  

Julia Anderson Public Engagement Trainee, Fleming Initiative 

The Public Engagement Trainee, Fleming Initiative will support the Initiative’s Public Engagement and Involvement team, delivering on a variety of activities working with the public, investigating what makes engagement and involvement impactful, and contributing to public-facing content to showcase the Initiative’s work. 

The Public Engagement Trainee, Fleming Initiative will work with supporting two public advisory groups, identifying topics that could be a focus for public engagement, research for the Fleming Centre exhibition content and working with the Communications team to produce content to publicise the Fleming Initiative’s work.  

Julia Anderson Research Impact Trainee 

As Impact Trainee, you will help translate the real-life impact of our work by developing a communications and dissemination plan, bringing together all of the inputs from the range of patient safety research projects to tell an engaging story about how this NIHR infrastructure is contributing to regional and national patient safety.   

You will work with individual researchers to help articulate their impact stories, helping them bring together their findings and develop creative ways to demonstrate their real-world influence. 

Julia Anderson Mental Health Trainee

The main focus of this role will be to support the NIHR North West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC) team exploring the transition between Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS). The trainee will assess whether a digital intervention is effective in improving the safety, quality, and consistency of transitions. The successful trainee will gain hands-on experience supporting the innovative co-production in mental health research activity within IGHI and receive mentorship and support from IGHI throughout their placement. Prior work experience in mental health is not required.

Julia Anderson Trainee in Behavioural Science (Medication Adherence)

This role will give an individual at the early stage in their career an opportunity to work on understanding low medication adherence rates, and to be a part of efforts to increase treatment adherence for patients in two projects: The first project is with patients prescribed capecitabine (an anticancer drug), and the second project is for patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The capecitabine project will work on understanding reasons for non-adherence to capecitabine. The PAD project aims to explore ways to support patients with PAD to be more engaged with their treatment.

Julia Anderson Programme Operations Trainee

As the Programme Operations Trainee, you will be responsible for a wide range of tasks with the view to develop our Training Programme further. You will be working alongside the Operations Officer and be given the opportunity to take the lead in certain areas. This is a unique chance for anyone who is interested in a career in Operations, Project Management, Communications, Event Management, Administration or Human Resources and wants to get a first work experience in an exciting environment.