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Join the Wellcome Trust's Mental Health Translation team and make a global impact on health and wellbeing.
Overview
Salary £45696
Location London, UK - Hybrid
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Expires Expires at anytime
The Wellcome Trust is a prestigious global charity dedicated to improving health through science funding, policy leadership, and advocacy campaigns. With plans to invest £16bn in life, health, and wellbeing research over the next decade, the Trust is tackling critical global health challenges in mental health, infectious disease, and climate impact.
Role Summary:
- Participate in the Mental Health Translation team to fund and support translation projects.
- Develop novel tools and interventions for mental health, adaptable to various contexts, including low-resource settings.
- Collaborate with partners to ensure sustainable project reach.
Role Requirements:
- Expertise in at least one area of mental health science.
- Experience in translational research across various fields.
- Ability to communicate complex information effectively.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Experience in working/funding in low-and-middle income countries is desirable.
Enjoy a flexible working environment with hybrid options, an inclusive culture, and support for diverse working styles, all while contributing to vital global health solutions.
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
The role entails joining our Mental Health Translation team. The team’s remit is to identify and fund forward translation projects focussed on the development of novel tools and interventions. This includes working with partners as appropriate to ensure the projects have reach and are sustainable within complex systems including in low resource settings. This may include development of novel interventions but also modification of existing ones to make them more effective and maximise impact, and may range from the cellular to the societal, whilst all the time paying attention to the specific needs of particular contexts.
Job requirements include significant expertise in relation to at least one specialist area of mental health science, broadly defined, and experience in translational research. Expertise need not be limited to psychology, psychiatry or neuroscience: those with relevant expertise in a range of fields from molecular biology to social science will be considered. Experience of conducting research in academia, industry or third sector organisations will be advantageous, a PhD is not essential. Understanding of clinical research and clinical trials or commercialisation of mental health research. Experience of employing diverse approaches to effectively communicate complex information to individuals and groups from a range of different background and different seniority levels. Excellent organisational and project management skills. Demonstrated ability to manage a fluctuating workload and competing priorities. Experience of working/funding in low-and-middle income country context would be desirable.
Benefits include a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days working either remotely or in the office. From 1st September 2024 we will move to 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.
Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.
