Research Associate (fixed-term post)
School of Management
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Starting from £31,342, rising to £37,394
To be confirmed
9th July 2015
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The School of Management seeks to recruit a Research Associate for a project funded by
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for applying
analytical methods and techniques to a range of real-life problems with the aim of achieving
tangible impacts. The research associate will share her/his time between the main campus of
the University of Bath and Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil, Somerset.
The role of the Research Associate will be:
1. To provide clinical teams and healthcare managers in the collaborating hospital with
high quality analytical and systems modelling expertise for a variety of different areas
of hospital operations.
2. To help identify improvements to care processes and resource allocation through
process mapping and systems modelling and simulation.
3. To collect, analyse and feedback to clinicians and managers patient and system outcome
data.
4. To disseminate project findings locally, nationally and internationally with oral
presentation, formal reporting and peer-review publication.
The successful candidate will join the recently established, vibrant and fast growing research
centre, the Bath Centre for Healthcare Innovation & Improvement (CHI2) and will:
1. Have a Master’s degree and preferably a PhD (or be near completion) with a strong
quantitative/analytical focus and in a relevant area such as operational research,
management science, mathematical modelling, health economics, or health services
research.
2. Have working knowledge of a number of analytical techniques and be able to quickly
learn others. Example techniques include but are not limited to multiple linear and
logistic regression, forecasting, optimisation, discrete-event simulation and system
dynamics.
3. Have previous experience of working in some area of health care (hospital operations,
quality improvement, public health etc.) and a willingness to develop quickly working
knowledge in different areas of hospital operations.
4. Be very comfortable with communicating with healthcare professionals and be in a
position to spend time at both sites (University of Bath and Yeovil District Hospital)
on a weekly basis.
This is a fixed-term post for 24 months at first instance and commencing on 1 September 2015,
or as soon as possible after that date.
For further information and an informal discussion about the role, please see
www.bath.ac.uk/chi2 and contact Dr Christos Vasilakis – c.vasilakis@bath.ac.uk.
Please note that we are currently advertising for a similar research post – see link for more
details and indicate on the covering letter whether you would like to be considered for either.
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