We’re hiring! The Nationwide Elf Service wants 2 part-time Elf Coordinators to affix our staff and assist us within the commissioning and modifying of Psychological Elf blogs.
This chance will swimsuit a PhD scholar working in a psychological well being setting, however may be of curiosity to individuals with lived expertise, practitioners or trainees working in psychological well being. We particularly welcome functions from people with information of psychiatric analysis.
Wage: £260 per day, minimal 2 days per 30 days (versatile)
Begin date: ASAP
Employment standing: Freelancer
Location: Distant-working
Software deadline: 5pm on twenty fourth Could 2024
Interviews: Date TBC (w/b tenth June 2024)
Introduction to the Psychological Elf and the Nationwide Elf Service
The Psychological Elf is an influential worldwide running a blog platform that helps individuals maintain updated with the newest related and dependable psychological well being analysis. The unbiased and inclusive Elf model is trusted and revered by researchers, clinicians, individuals with lived expertise and policymakers. We now have web site guests and social media followers from over 180 international locations.
The Psychological Elf options >3,000 free blogs written by >700 specialists (researchers, clinicians, individuals with lived expertise). Every weblog highlights a brand new piece of psychological well being analysis related to psychological well being follow with necessary implications.
1000’s of individuals learn Psychological Elf blogs day-after-day, and our social media campaigns all the time generate tens of thousands and thousands of impressions. We now have an enormous, various and constant social media viewers. Our goal has all the time been to facilitate democratic conversations about psychological well being analysis with a various viewers, utilizing our trusted model to draw and interact with all of the necessary stakeholders.
The Psychological Elf additionally supplies paid digital providers to all kinds of shoppers (universities, the NHS, charities, skilled membership organisations and so forth). These providers embody our #BeyondTheRoom stay reporting service, and quite a lot of podcast, webinar and video manufacturing work.
Our present staff of 4 part-time Psychological Elf Coordinators all have:
- understanding of the processes and follow of evidence-based well being care
- A excessive stage of data about psychological well being analysis
- Specialist topic information throughout the psychological well being sciences
- Robust science communication and public engagement expertise
- Enthusiasm for facilitating democratic discussions about well being analysis with a various vary of individuals.
Position and obligations
There are two new part-time vacancies on this staff, so we’re searching for two people who share the above information and ethos to affix us. You’ll:
a. Take a lead on 6 psychological well being subjects. Presently out there subjects embody:
- Arts and tradition
- Bipolar dysfunction
- Complicated emotional wants (inc. persona problems)
- Dementia
- Economics
- Bodily exercise
- Psychedelics
- Psychosis
- Secondary care (inc. inpatient care, disaster care)
- Office psychological well being
b. Fee and edit Psychological Elf blogs:
- Discover appropriate analysis papers
- Assign papers to bloggers
- Edit blogs
- Handle deadlines
- Produce 4 blogs prepared for publication every month
c. Recruit and handle a community of professional bloggers (clinicians, researchers, individuals with lived expertise)
d. Work with the remainder of the staff of Elves.
Important necessities
The profitable candidate should have:
- Wonderful science writing and modifying expertise (together with glorious written English)
- Crucial appraisal expertise in well being analysis
- Information of quantitative analysis strategies
- Familiarity with psychiatric analysis
- Robust communication expertise
- Expertise of working in a staff to provide content material or analysis
- Self-directed and capable of handle your individual workload.
Fascinating necessities
We’re significantly curious about listening to from individuals who even have:
- Earlier expertise of psychological well being running a blog
- Robust social media expertise
- Familiarity with mission administration instruments to assist distant working
- Grasp’s Diploma (or equal) in psychological well being or associated topic
- Public engagement expertise (skill to speak analysis in a transparent and accessible technique to most of the people)
- Expertise with the WordPress content material administration system.
Inclusive recruitment coverage
The Nationwide Elf Service staff is aware of that variety fosters creativity and innovation. We’re dedicated to equality of alternative, to being honest and inclusive, and to being a spot the place all of us belong.
We due to this fact significantly encourage functions from candidates who’re at present underrepresented in our staff. These embody individuals from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled individuals, LGBTQI+ individuals, neurodiverse individuals, and folks with lived expertise of psychological well being difficulties.
We additionally welcome functions from worldwide candidates.
