Research Fellow in Sustainable Intensive Care

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School of Sport and Health Sciences
Location:  Brighton – Falmer
Salary: 
£39,347 to £46,974
per annum
Contract Length: 9 months
Closing Date:  Sunday 07 April 2024
Interview Date: 
See advert
Reference:  HE4041-24-095

Applicants with a background in intensive care are invited to apply for this exciting opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team on a project related to reducing the carbon footprint of intensive care units.  The project is a collaboration between the University of Brighton, Intensive Care Society, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance.   

To be successful in the post, you should have:

• A degree in a healthcare discipline.
• Sufficient, up to date breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in intensive care and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes and evidence of commitment to engage in continuous professional development.
• Registration with a UK healthcare professional, statutory and regulatory body.
• Previous clinical experience working in an intensive care unit.
• Competent IT skills (Microsoft packages: Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook).

You will play a central role in the project, collecting data, analysing, and writing reports.  Knowledge about environmentally sustainable healthcare and carbon footprinting is desirable or a commitment to learning from the support provided.  

This 1.0 FTE position is funded as a fixed-term post for 9 months.  We welcome applications from job sharers, and hybrid working is possible.   

For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Heather Baid [email protected]

Interviews will be held week commencing 15th April.

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee’s home. It is the University’s expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.