Research Fellow Role - Patient Safety Research Network Manager
Post Summary
Applications are invited from candidates interested in playing the key role of Network Manager for the Evidence-based QUality Improvement and Patient Safety (EQUIPS) research network. EQUIPS aims to build a community of Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) researchers, knowledge users, patients, public and other stakeholders to change the landscape of Irish QPS research. The project is co-funded by the Health Research Board and the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE). The grant was awarded to the Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. The successful candidate will have office space at the Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology and will be supervised by Prof Sam Cromie - Principal Investigator (PI).
EQUIPS Project Summary.
Despite decades of focus, patient harm rates in Ireland have not improved significantly. Despite investment in, and an increasing culture of quality improvement in Irish health and social care, the services frequently fall below acceptable standards on all quality dimensions – efficiency, effectiveness, equity accessibility and timeliness. If we add staff welfare, person-centred or even kin-centred care as quality metrics the picture is no better.
EQUIPS aims to draw together existing pockets of research collaboration to build a community of Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) researchers, knowledge users, patients, public and other stakeholders to change the landscape of Irish QPS research. It will break down silos between stakeholder groups, between researchers of different disciplines and orientations, between knowledge users of different stripes. It will demystify QPS research for the patient and the public.
EQUIPS will have three strands. The Enable strand will put all the pieces in place to build a thriving research community – events, information sources, capacity and capability building. The Understanding and Informing strand will draw on this community set priorities and strategies for QPS research, identify barriers and enablers and evaluate the network itself to apply the quality improvement cycle to it. The Focussing strand will consist of clusters to start working on priority QPSresearch topics, set the agenda for them, put consortia together and start pursuing funding. Two initial clusters will focus on System and Process Design and Implementation and Evaluation.
Note: official applications must be made via the Trinity College Dublin job vacancies page and only applications submitted via this route will be considered.