Mental Health Adviser - Volunteer in London

Job description

Would you like to use your mental health research expertise to help a health think tank encourage fresh, non-pathologizing approaches to young people’s mental health - including addressing underlying economic and societal risk factors and also approaches which increase resilience?

What difference will you make?

As a Mental Health Adviser you will be particularly well placed to influence our development as a health think tank - and hopefully also to influence wider thinking on what works when it comes to encouraging positive mental health.

We seek to influence both policy and practice. For example, given the possibility of a change of government, last year we met with Luciana Berger, who was leading Labour's Mental Health Review. Following the meeting we provided a range of evidence she had expressed interest in, which she found very helpful.

Following our research into Student Mental Health, in partnership with Greenwich University, King's College London and Ulster University (which you can see the report of on our website) we are currently working with six universities and the U3A on a potential bid for funding for a follow-up intergenerational research project.

What are we looking for?

• A mental health-related PhD and publications.
• Research experience which has enabled you to achieve appointment as a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow or Professor in the UK.
• An interest in a holistic approach to children's mental health
• A commitment to evidence-based research
• Support for our guiding principle that prevention is better than cure
  
  

Experience of securing research funding would be an added recommendation.

What will you be doing?

We are looking for Mental Health Advisers who can each help with at least two of the following

• Advise on research methodology for new research projects – including the suitability of the approach, methods of enquiry and ethical considerations.
• Review grant applications
• Help review our research findings to ensure they are robust and stand up to scrutiny, including potential peer review.
• Suggest future directions for research
  
  

You’ll be helping us make the most of our research projects, alongside our Trustees, a team of graduate volunteer researchers, and health research partners, including six universities.

Meetings are usually via Zoom to enable participation as widely as possible.

Extra information

Status

Closed

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London

Type of Contract

Casual / Part Time Jobs

Profession type

Bar Staff / Waiters and Waitresses

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English