Research Officer Full-time Job

About the role

Mater Research (MR) has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Research Officer to join our leading Neurosciences Research group. This is a full-time position being offered as a 24-month maximum-term contract.

Mater Intellectual Disability and Autism Service (MIDAS) is seeking an exceptional leader to join their team. This newly created position is to lead the health services stream of the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health.

Are you passionate about improving the health of people with Intellectual Disability? Do you have experience conducting research with and alongside of people with Intellectual Disability? If so we would like to meet you to discuss this important new role.

Salary: $98,658 - $106,057 plus superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900

What you’ll be doing

MIDAS, together with UNSW, is a lead member of a Consortium that have established the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the National Centre). The National Centre is a new major initiative supported by the Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care. The National Centre will provide leadership in intellectual disability health, drive innovation and collaboration, lift the capability of health services to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability through training and development of best practice models of care and lead initiatives in data and research to inform improvements in health and wellbeing. The work of the National Centre will be undertaken by four teams: Driving Change, Health Service Development, Resource & Innovation, and Research & Data. MIDAS leads the Health Service Development team.
The Research Officer will lead research and project related activity relevant to the health services development component of the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) in Intellectual Disability Health.

The Research Officer may also be required to work on other health / disability related research projects in their role.

To view a copy of the PD, please click here: NCoE Research Officer.pdf

About you

The successful candidate will possess the following knowledge, experience, or attributes:

Essential

• PhD in the area of Disability, Health or related field
• A strong background in Intellectual and Developmental Disability health research
• Experience in research ethics, governance preparation and submission
• Experience in conducting research with people with intellectual disability, autism or psychosocial disability
• Demonstrated ability to lead the development, conduct, monitoring, analyse and interpretation of health service research methods
• Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills necessary for negotiating and liaising effectively with a diverse range of staff, patients and other stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to identify, analyse and solve problems to provide accurate and appropriate outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality written materials in different styles and formats appropriate to the audience.
• Knowledge of data management systems
• Experience in health care evaluation and methodology
• Highly proficient computer literacy with excellent skills in Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team

Why join us?

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE

• Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
• Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
• Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
• Discounts to local and national business/venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation/Other
• Unlimited access to a multitude of discounted fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• Access to on-site, discounted parking
• Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues

Applications close on Thursday 28 March 2024. Please note, we may contact applications prior to the closing date, please do not hesitate to APPLY NOW!

Mater is committed to the wellbeing of their staff, and it is underpinned by our flexible and remote working policies.

Please Note: We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies at this time and kindly request no contact is made. Only direct applications will be considered.