Evidence Islington Embedded Researcher

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Overall responsibilities

• Manage research and evaluation projects to support the development of local health and wellbeing services.  
• Identify gaps in the evidence base on health and wellbeing in Islington.  
• Where gaps have been identified, to lead on the design, planning, and conduct of mixed methods studies to obtain resident, patients’, and organisational (e.g. voluntary sector) views to inform council strategic plans and public health policies and reports, including Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Health and Wellbeing Strategies and the Annual Public Health Report. 
• Develop and maintain systems for collating and compiling primary and secondary, qualitative and quantitative data from routine and ad-hoc sources, from national, regional and local levels, which describe the health and wellbeing needs of Islington’s population.   

• Develop and implement innovative methodologies to carry out, analyse and interpret mixed method and community engagement work and to advise colleagues in the use of a variety of methodologies, working closely with the Evidence Islington resident engagement coordinator and community researchers.  
• Work closely with other colleagues to ensure that service design, commissioning and evaluation are informed by the available evidence-base in relation to the health needs of the population.  
• Present data and research findings in ways which assist diverse audiences to understand key messages and formulate recommendations on the basis of their analysis. 
• Provide specialist advice and support to colleagues and collaborators who are thinking about undertaking research and evaluation locally, including linking council and academic staff.  
• Participate in council-wide working groups and networks, such as the Participation & Engagement and Analysts’ communities of practice. 
• Curate and maintain research and evaluation resources and training materials, tailored to a local authority setting. 
• Coordinate council-wide and cross-sector knowledge sharing activities, including research talks, journal club and research networking. 
• Contribute to NIHR reports and ensure agreed milestones are delivered.   
• Contribute to research proposals to secure external funding. 

 Project management 

• Demonstrate and develop project management skills, including the management of a variety of simultaneous projects, ensuring key milestones and deadlines are met.  
• Disseminate and communicate learning, good practice and evaluation results to the wider public health team and at cross-council meetings. 

 Communication and relationships 

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills to present complex information both oral and written, in a variety of formats to a variety of audiences, ranging from organisations, professional groups, community groups and individuals.  
• Communicate with and establish and maintain relationships between public health and key stakeholders and other colleagues across Islington local authority and the Integrated Care Board.  
• Contribute to reports of varying length and complexity, ranging from informal summaries to detailed comprehensive reports for a variety of specialist and non-specialist audiences.  
• Contribute to promoting the work of the public health team at local, London-wide, national or international levels as such occasions arise.