Job Description

Your role will be key in formulating the options for a future structure for research in care homes by leading a scoping project for the next year. This would enable us to assess the number of homes that would be interested in participating in clinical and social research. Also to gauge which of the topic specific networks or speciality groups are interested in doing research in a care homes.

You will be expected to develop the membership of the ENRICH Scotland academic group to ensure wide representation from all relevant disciplines. You will be exploring aspects of care home research and providing regular reports for the manager including potential for commercial studies, and a wide range of research and innovation ideas. You will be asked to devise interesting and innovative ways in which to promote ENRICH and increase our reach to involve all corners of Scotland.

You will provide expertise on ethical governance and consent issues relating to care home research and improve the quality and quantity of input we have with care homes and interested researchers to ensure research in care homes (and therefore social care more widely) is high on everyone’s agenda, which is particularly pertinent in this Covid-19 landscape.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities