Job Description

The role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a cancer research unit with a real pedigree in clinical research involving NHS cancer patients. You will join a health services research team with an excellent track record of winning multimillion pound NIHR grants in addition to major strategic commercial partnerships with both national and international organisations (Nuffield Health and Boston Scientific Corp). Your role will be to support funded collaborative clinical projects using your health services research knowledge and experience to undertaking bespoke research tasks, supporting senior researchers and working across our national and international network. We expect the successful candidate to contribute to our unit's already excellent reputation.

The department

The STAMINA research unit has been successfully undertaking large multi-centre clinical trials of complex behavioural interventions in NHS cancer populations for over a decade. We are experts in clinical trial performance, intervention design, development, and evaluation. We have a mix of clinical and non-clinical staff and take whole team approach to project support. This has been a key feature of our success. We proactively look to develop talented researchers from within our unit offering support and mentoring to talented and ambitious individuals who want to work hard and gain the trust of the team. Grade 7 researchers that have performed exceptionally have been moved to Grade 8 roles previously and have since gone on to win their own NIHR funding.

The School of Health and Social Care delivers a well-established, large and diverse portfolio of undergraduate, postgraduate and degree apprenticeship courses leading to registration in 14 different professions. These include Nursing (all fields), Midwifery, Social Work, Paramedic Science, Operating Department Practitioner, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Diagnostic Radiography, Radiotherapy and Oncology, Dietetics and Art Psychotherapy. We support practitioners to continue to develop their professional roles through our extensive continuing professional development portfolio, our graduates working in local, national, and international health and social care sectors. Our research portfolio is cutting edge and applied, undertaking challenge-led collaborative interdisciplinary research, innovation and knowledge exchange to inform and transform health and social care.

We offer a diverse range of benefits and opportunities to pursue a rewarding and fulfilling career in a supportive environment.

You will be contractually enrolled into the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) - one of the largest and most generous defined-benefit pension schemes in the country.
Each year you will earn a secure pension benefit of 1/57th of your salary and the University will pay pension contributions towards the cost of this pension (currently worth about 29% of your salary). For a starting salary of 40,000, for example, the University would pay just over 11,400 in the first year of your employment and you would earn a pension of 702 p.a. for that year (payable from your State Pension Age).

Find out more about the TPS

If you are, or have been, a recent member of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) directly prior to joining us, you can choose to opt out of the TPS and remain in the USS. Please contact the Pensions team to discuss options available.

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status.

For this job we particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic applicants who are underrepresented in this area/ this type of job at Sheffield Hallam

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international applicants in this role; this will depend on a number of factors specific to the individual applicant.

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