Research Asst/tech 3 - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants

Job Profile

Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3

Job Title

Research Asst/Tech 3 (Sutherland)

Department

Sutherland Research CHSPR | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range

$3, $4,703.83 CAD Monthly

Posting End Date

September 5, 2023

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

Jun 30, 2024

This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Research Assistant will lead specialized and complex research in measuring surgical outcomes and stroke recovery.

The Research Assistant requires training in project management, patient recruitment, clinical knowledge and experience with surgical wait list management and accessing post-stroke health services.

The Research Assistant will use their training in research design and statistical methods to analyze data and generate written technical reports on the impacts of surgical wait times in Vancouver Coastal Health Authority hospitals and barriers to community-based healthcare for stroke survivors.

The Research Assistant is required to lead all aspects of the project, schedule and supervise students, negotiate with software vendors, maximize patient recruitment protocols, and have in-depth knowledge of elective surgery and trajectories of stroke recovery.

The Research Assistant will have significant experience in project management and will be responsible for all aspects of training and supervising undergraduate students.

The Research Assistant will be responsible for supervising the quality/quantity of patient recruitment and ensuring all patient data is accurately entered into the secured database.

The Research Assistant will work closely as a member of multidisciplinary research team consisting of health services researchers, clinicians/surgeons, allied health professionals (e.g., physiotherapists) and other research assistants.

The Research Assistant will present their interim results. She/he will be responsible for ensuring the project's deliverables are completed on time and of high quality. The Research Assistant is required to have obtained appropriate certification/approval regarding safe

Organizational Status

This position is within the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) in UBC's School of Population and Public Health.

CHSPR is a collaborative research environment where faculty, research staff, and graduate students study how health care can best be organized, financed, and delivered.

The Research Assistant will work under the direct supervision of Dr. Jason Sutherland, faculty member and interim Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research.

The Research Assistant will routinely engage with surgical patients, stroke survivors, graduate students, undergraduate students, allied health researchers across Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

Work Performed

Assists in designing or modifying database queries to prospectively identify surgical patients and hospitalized stroke survivors.
Coordinates with survey team to contact surgical patients and stroke survivors and administers surveys.
Measures survey completion and monitors possible response bias.
Coordinates with Vancouver Coastal Health Authority's Decision Support Unit to extract confidential data once a quarter and link with hospital discharge data, emergency department visit data and community care visit information.
Manages data extractions and data linkage between Vancouver Coastal Health Authority's Decision Support and Providence Healthcare.
Responsible for conducting analyses of survey information, preparing progress reports, and presents results to the research team on a biweekly basis.
Responsible for implementing and monitoring changes to the recruitment protocol and coordinating changes with students and research team members.
Communicates implementation of changes with external software (project management) vendor.
Oversees the work of undergraduate students to ensure quality, accuracy and completeness.
Responsible for exercising judgement, responsibility and initiative in determining work procedures and coordinating project deliverables between all team members.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

Complexity of Duties:

This is a research position within a program of research involving a variety of projects and sophisticated research methods.