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Academic Primary Care Centre (APC) has an overarching research, education, and development mandate for primary care in Region Stockholm. APC and the three university health centres Jakobsberg, Gustavsberg, and Liljeholmen constitute the primary care university healthcare unit (USV) and are an important part of the new organization for knowledge management nationally and regionally. The operations are based on a network organization where the majority of our employees have their primary employment in clinical primary care activities. Stockholm County Council, SLSO, is the main employer, but APC's operations are conducted independently of the operational form throughout Region Stockholm. Read more about APC here.

Do you want to contribute to research that can strengthen primary care's support for people with mental ill-health and their opportunities to remain in or return to work? We are now looking for a careful and engaged research assistant for our research activities at Liljeholmen University Health Centre.

Liljeholmen University Health Centre (LUVC) is part of Academic Primary Care Centre and provides care, research, education, and development work in close collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and other actors within Region Stockholm.

About the research activities

You will work in research projects that develop and evaluate work-oriented interventions in primary care for people with mental ill-health. The projects are carried out within the framework of the Stockholm Centre for Return to Work and in close collaboration with the Centre for Work and Environmental Medicine (CAMM), the Division of Insurance Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, and participating health centres.

As a research assistant, you provide practical and administrative support to the research group. You are part of a cross-professional research environment and work closely with researchers and clinically active staff.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities mainly include:

• Coordinating, administering, and practically conducting data collection, such as interviews, workshops, focus groups, surveys, and follow-ups.
• Informing about the studies, recruiting study participants, and maintaining contact with participants and participating health centres.
• Administering surveys, mailings, reminders, and compensation to study participants.
• Registering, checking, and quality-assuring research data in secure data collection systems.
• Managing study documentation according to project procedures and current regulations, including GDPR and ethical review.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree at an advanced level in, for example, psychology, public health science, behavioral science, rehabilitation, or another relevant field.
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.
• Good computer skills.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.

Merits

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience from research projects, data collection, qualitative interviews or focus groups, and contact with study participants.
• Experience from healthcare, especially primary care or occupational health services, or work with mental ill-health and work-oriented rehabilitation.
• Experience with digital data collection systems or research databases.
• Knowledge of statistical programs, such as SPSS, R, or Stata.

Personal qualities

The work involves many contacts with study participants, healthcare staff, and other partners. We are looking for someone who has a professional and trust-building approach, works in a structured and independent manner, and can handle several tasks in parallel. We value initiative, responsibility, and a solution-oriented way of working. Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences and look forward to your application. We will continuously review applications and may call for interviews before the final application deadline.

The position is filled subject to the condition that it does not need to be taken for internal reassignment, according to current regulations.

In patient-related work within Stockholm County Council (SLSO):

- Register checks are applied before the decision on employment according to SLSO's overarching guidelines for register checks upon employment.

- Employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employment examination, according to current directives, which is done through occupational health services before employment.

- In addition to Swedish professional licensure, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is required. The same requirements are guiding for non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

Stockholm County Council (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer healthcare under the auspices of Region Stockholm within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, near-acute care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and assistive devices. In collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here.

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