Job Description:
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Position: Research Lead, Patient Experience Research Team
File#: 2023-33096
Status: Temporary Full-Time (15 mth Contract)
Role Level: Professional Group (PG11 $41.95-$52.42)
Dept/Health System: Institute for Better Health
Hours of Work/Shifts: 37.5 hours per week
Posted: May 17, 2023
Internal Deadline: June 17, 2023
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Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber. Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Our Mission: A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
Our Values: Compassion, Excellence, Courage
Our Goals: Quality, Access, Sustainability
Our Enablers:
People, Education, Innovation, Research
When we set out to build our vision and future, we connected with our community - patients, families, visitors, physicians, staff and volunteers. The foundational goals of our new strategic plan - quality, access and sustainability - anchor everything we do. Our mission for a new kind of health care is built on an inter-connected system of care organized around patients - inside and outside the hospital.
At THP, we are relentless in providing high quality, compassionate care to our communities and take great pride in fostering an inclusive and accessible environment and we are all accountable for contributing to a healthy, safe and respectful environment for healing and promoting excellence in patient care though advancing patient and staff safety. If you are passionate about what you do, motivated to improve the health of the community, committed to excellence, quality and patient safety we would like you to join our Better Together team!
As THP’s research and innovation engine, the Institute for Better Health (IBH) is a core enabler of THP’s mission of a new kind of health care for a healthier community through the application of scientific expertise, innovative thinking and partnerships. Focused on generating cutting-edge science and innovation in health service delivery and population health, IBH leads practical research and innovation that shapes how we engage, design, deliver, and finance health care to solve problems stretching from the bedside to the system. IBH operates within a Learning Health System Model, with specific thematic areas of focus in population health, patient and family engagement, innovative models of care, and implementation and evaluation science.
For more information, visit the IBH website here
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The Role
The Institute for Better Health is seeking a Research Lead that will provide 15 month parental leave coverage and support the Patient Experience (PE) Research Team led by Dr. Kerry Kuluski– a research program that is focused on partnering with patients, caregivers, care providers, members of our community, managers and leaders in bettering our health care system. The Research Lead will facilitate the development and implementation of community, patient and caregiver focused projects within the hospital, in the community and other care settings as well as manage the operational requirements of the research program. In addition to supporting scientific activities, the Research Lead will manage the operational elements of the PE portfolio, reporting directly to Dr. Laura Desveaux, Science Lead. Operational activities include creating and managing budgets; tracking, and resource planning; support strategic portfolio activities related to the PE Research Team; supporting research staff and students in conducting the daily study activities; and organizing the administrative, ethics and regulatory requirements of various research studies. This is a unique opportunity to be exposed to the hospital setting, support innovative health research and to play a pivotal role in enabling and mobilizing health research within hospital and community settings.
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Key Responsibilities
Support research team (staff and students) in conducting day-to-day research activities across the project life cycle, including initiation and feasibility assessments, creating study materials (e.g., study protocol, REB application, consent forms, data collection forms), collecting and analyzing research data, reporting results, and study close-out activities.- Mentor research team in identifying key research questions and developing methodology in accordance with protocol and data analysis plan.
- Train and onboard research team members.
- Provide methodological guidance across projects and lead data analysis activities in collaboration with the research team.
- Oversee scientific projects and operations for research team, including contracts agreements, finances, resourcing, deliverables and timelines.
- Provide regular progress updates and prepare reports as determined in partnership with the Principal Investigator and in alignment with project and operational reporting requirements.
- Liaise with internal collaborators and enabling services (e.g., Research Operations, REB, Research Finance, etc.).
- Lead and support knowledge translation activities including but not limited to peer reviewed publications, conference proceedings, curriculum development, and stakeholder engagement.
- Contribute to growing and amplifying the impact of the research team, including grant development, strengthening relationships with partners and collaborators, and building and managing new partnerships.
Qualifications
Core Qualifications:
PhD in a field relevant to health (e.g., public health, health research methodology, health services research, social sciences), OR Master’s degree in a field relevant to health and 4 years of work experience. - 3+ years of experience working in a health or social services related research and demonstrated knowledge of qualitative and mix methodologies.
- Experience working and collaborating with patient, caregiver and community partners.
- Strong collaboration and relationship management skills to work with and align a diverse, inter-professional team.
- Experience coordinating the development of grant and funding applications.
- Demonstrated initiative, independence, and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills.
Additional Qualifications that are an asset to the role:
Experience with participatory research methods including co-design; experience engaging with patients, caregivers, care providers within and outside of institutional settings.
Please submit the following application components in a single file (PDF preferred):
- Cover letter detailing your interest in the role
- CV
- Writing sample (any paper or document where the applicant was the primary writer)
This position will be posted for at least one-month. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the posting timeframe until the position is filled or the posting is closed.
Building an Antiracist and Equitable Team and Why it is Important to Us - A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
When we set out to build our vision and future, we connected with and heard from our community - patients, families, visitors, physicians, staff and volunteers. Our plan to create a new kind of health care for a healthier community means advancing health across the hospital, the system and the community and is built on an inter-connected system of care organized around patients and leaving no one behind. Recognizing this mission could not be realized without also assessing and investing in our internal practices, culture and processes we are building an organization where everyone at THP feels they belong, their voice matters, and contributes to our collective success. We commit to making systemic fairness a reality for all and are working to ensure that the community we serve is reflected at all levels, and in all professions at THP. Diversity is our strength and we recognize and value teaching and learning we all contribute and benefit from in our environment; our unique lived experiences matter and shape our actions and behaviors. In becoming an antiracist organization, we acknowledge the existence of oppression, racism, bias and complicity, and we have been working steadily to make changes in the way we work to dismantle these barriers. This includes developing and realizing an action plan to advance racial equity and embed anti-racism accountability across IBH, starting with our anti-Black racism priority initiative.
Trillium Health Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a healthy, safe and respectful environment for healing, based on our values compassion, excellence and courage. To be Better Together, we commit to fostering a respectful workplace culture that promotes a safe and supportive environment for everyone who provides care, supports caregiving, receives care or visits the hospital.
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To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website:
www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
This This position will be posted for at least one-month. Applications will start to be reviewed after two weeks and will continue to be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled or the posting is closed.
Candidates are selected on the basis of their skill, ability, experience and qualifications.
Where these factors are relatively equal seniority shall govern providing the successful applicant.
Trillium Health Partners’ (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.
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