PERSON SPECIFICATION How to be Criteria Essential Desirable assessed PhD (or near completion) or equivalent PhD involving data collection by Application Qualifications, professional qualifications and interview and qualitative analysis and CV knowledge & experience in health services experience research/cancer care/palliative Knowledge of patients experiences of care/nursing/related health or social life limiting illness and/or palliative care science subject Knowledge and understanding of cancer Experience of conducting interviews with survivorship patients or other vulnerable groups, particularly cancer patients and their Conducting serial (longitudinal) carers interviews Experience of research with vulnerable Experience of working with a of groups eg living with a life limiting stakeholders to reach consensus e.g. condition or at the end of their life. Delphi or other consensus methods. Knowledge of policy that relates to Experience of managing data collection chronic illness and cancer care, across multiple sites particularly knowledge of concepts and literature around self-management Experience of negotiating access to conduct research in the NHS Experience of recruiting patients in the NHS and the retention of patients into research studies Demonstrated ability to search, retrieve and synthesise literature using electronic databases Demonstrated ability to write up research processes and findings for project funders and for peer reviewed international journals Knowledge and experience of user involvement Ability to communicate effectively with a range of senior health care professionals and policy makers Demonstrable qualitative research skills Experience of working with multiple clinical centres building and maintaining relationships with clinical and research Qualitative data collection and analysis Experience of working and communicating with project stakeholders such as clinical and service users Able to independently organise Planning & Application research activities according to the organising and CV research plan for the study Able to efficiently and systematically organise and store literature, research data and other project materials
PERSON SPECIFICATION Criteria Essential Desirable How to be assessed Qualifications, knowledge & experience PhD (or near completion) or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in health services research/cancer care/palliative care/nursing/related health or social science subject Experience of conducting interviews with patients or other vulnerable groups, particularly cancer patients and their carers Experience of research with vulnerable groups eg living with a life limiting condition or at the end of their life. Knowledge of policy that relates to chronic illness and cancer care, particularly knowledge of concepts and literature around self-management Experience of negotiating access to conduct research in the NHS Experience of recruiting patients in the NHS and the retention of patients into research studies Demonstrated ability to search, retrieve and synthesise literature using electronic databases Demonstrated ability to write up research processes and findings for project funders and for peer reviewed international journals Knowledge and experience of user involvement Ability to communicate effectively with a range of senior health care professionals and policy makers Demonstrable qualitative research skills Experience of working with multiple clinical centres building and maintaining relationships with clinical and research Qualitative data collection and analysis Experience of working and communicating with project stakeholders such as clinical and service users PhD involving data collection by interview and qualitative analysis Knowledge of patients experiences of life limiting illness and/or palliative care Knowledge and understanding of cancer survivorship Conducting serial (longitudinal) interviews Experience of working with a of stakeholders to reach consensus e.g. Delphi or other consensus methods. Experience of managing data collection across multiple sites Application and CV Planning & organising Able to independently organise research activities according to the research plan for the study Able to efficiently and systematically organise and store literature, research data and other project materials Application and CV
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