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Req #: 236844

Department: PSYCHIATRY

Posting Date: 07/19/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $4,649 - $9,465 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf )

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development. Psychiatry is the third largest department in the School of Medicine and the largest non-divisioned department. The overall annual operations funding from all sources is over $130 million.

The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 2.

The Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) is a NIMH-funded interdisciplinary center at UW working to improve the design and delivery of suicide care for adolescents and young adults in outpatient medical settings. The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR)'s mission is to improve the effectiveness of healthcare's treatment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors and to enhance human connection. SCRC and CSPAR research investigate suicide prevention and treatment interventions in clinics and related settings, potentially beneficial technologies including social media and smartphone apps, the opinions and preferences of people with lived experience of suicidality, their families and the clinicians and staff who care for them.

This RSE 2 position will support various studies and projects over time for SCRC or CSPAR

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct research and/or evaluation using codesign and mixed methods procedures as indicated in study protocols, might include conducting interviews (often via Zoom and telephone), co-facilitating groups and workshops, deploying and monitoring surveys, all with research study participants or trainees of clinical interventions. (30%) • Support/guide research or training staff to collecting study data, ensuring study protocols are followed correctly, assure high quality training, and facilitate troubleshooting of any problems encountered. (10%) • Prepare applications for and independently track the modifications needed to the Human Subjects Division, Institutional Review Boards, Data Safety Monitoring Board, and other regulatory bodies with Principal Investigator(s) throughout the research process. This requires depth of knowledge about research procedures and scientific theories relevant to clinical trials and/or health services research. (10%) • Monitor the implementation of study or training procedures and prepare status reports for the Principal Investigator(s) and study team on progress or challenges with things such as, recruitment, intervention delivery, participant or trainee engagement, other research staff and protocol breaches. Requests assistance when needed to ensure tasks are triaged, manageable and within scope, and completed on time. (15%) • During data collection period, review data from participants via validated measures, like the PHENX demographics or PHQ-9 to assess for quality, including identifying false/fake data, errors or revisions needed to the protocol or errors or revisions needed to the data collection tools. Escalate technical issues to the Data Manager, Senior Research Scientists, Supervisor, and/or Principal Investigator. (5%) • After data collection period, extract and clean study data, this includes using advanced logic and statistical methods in tools such as REDCap, SPSS and/or Dedoose. Perform rapid and thematic data analysis for qualitative research data collected with the research team and analyze coded interview transcripts and other data collected during contextual inquiry. Prepare findings for reports and assist with or co-author publications and presentations. (10%) • Arrange and facilitate meetings with the research team, this includes scheduling, notetaking, and tracking progress on action items (or delegating these tasks to team members), requiring effective transdisciplinary communication skills and collaboration with peer group. (5%) • Assist with operational functions as needed for center-wide sharing/usage, might include event management for training in or dissemination of research products, updating standard operating procedures or performing administrative functions, like records archival, as well as research resource development. (15%)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, social work, or equivalent AND two years of relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Experience working on randomized clinical trials, exploratory research projects and/or pilot research projects involving stressed, distressed and potentially suicidal participants, their family members or the providers who treat them. • Experience managing up and guiding a research small team with support from PI. • A deep understanding and experience of Good Clinical Practice standards for clinical trials and regulatory and understand the ethical issues of working with distressed and suicidal participants. • Experience and comfort assessing and managing suicide risk of study participants virtually. • Experience with reporting to funders and regulatory procedures including IRBs and DSMBs. • High level of sensitivity and communications skills required - both to interact effectively with distressed and potentially suicidal study participants and to conduct team science within a virtual multi-disciplinary research team. • Well versed in data collection using REDCap software and facility learning and working with a variety of online web-applications. • Ability to conduct qualitative interviews and code qualitative data accurately and efficiently.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with implementing suicide prevention efforts, suicide screening and risk assessment, and/or interventions. • Experience with SharePoint Online, quantitative data analysis software like SPSS, qualitative data analysis software like Dedoose or Atlas.ti, project/task management software like Basecamp. • Experience with UW administrative and regulatory procedures and software. • Ability to collaborate with a highly interdisciplinary hybrid (all remote vs. onsite) team. • Comfort with ambiguity and flexibility to rapid changes to projects design, needs and structure. • Experience delivering evidence-based clinical interventions, like DBT or safety planning, with patients.

Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your “My Jobs” page to take when you are access ready. Please not that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.