JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR

This is a unique opportunity for a motivated individual who wishes to further develop his/her career in clinical research and his/her experience of multinational research projects.

SENSAR, the Spanish Anaesthesia and Reanimation Safety Incident Reporting System, is a private non-profit scientific society leaded by patient safety expert clinicians that acts as a partner and lead of a work package at SAFEST (H2021 - 101057825). SAFEST will develop and implement a set of European Evidence-based Standardised Patient Safety practices for the perioperative period.

The main duties of the Investigator will include the following:

• Providing a key contact in Spain for project international partners
• Participating, as part of SENSAR research team, in the development of a consensus on a set of perioperative patient safety/care standardized practices based on an exhaustive literature and desk review of secondary sources and a Delphi study of stakeholders (clinicians and patients) in EU-27 member states
• Conducting, under the supervision and collaboration with the SENSAR research team, a guided self-evaluation of the project evidence-based standardized practices in the two sample hospitals in Spain
• Contributing to the identification of the two sample hospitals most important improvement areas in perioperative patient safety/care based on incompletely or not complied standardized practices
• Participating in the assessment of organizational readiness and patient needs for the implementation of standardized practices
• Facilitating the local implementation of the evidence-based practices through Quality Improvement Learning Collaboratives in the two sample hospitals in Spain
• Scientific manuscripts drafting

Duration: 4 years, starting June 2022

Requirements

Specific Requirements:

• University degree in Health or Life Science. Medical or Biological Sciences (bachelor degree or equivalent)
• Excellent oral and written language in both English (C1) and Spanish (C1)
• Availability to work in Madrid with travels in Spain as appropriate.
• If the applicant is a non-EU citizen, he/she must have a valid work permit at the time of application and for the duration of the contract.

Request

• Application should be submitted by email, in .doc or .pdf formats, to the address secretaria.tecnica(ELIMINAR)@sensar.org.
• Content of the application:
  • Name, surname(s), address, e-mail and contact telephone number
  • CV indicating training and professional experience with a description of the functions performed and list of publications.
  • Motivation letter
  • Letter of recommendation or previous employer contact details