CAMH
Location
Toronto, Ontario
Salary
CA$38 - CA$51 / HOUR
The Coordinator integrates the voices of people with lived experience and family members into the planning, operations, and evaluation of research activities at CAMH. Key duties include facilitating patient-research partnerships, supporting the recruitment of patient advisors, and ensuring compliance with research ethics board requirements.
A Master's degree in Psychology, Health, Social Sciences, or Social Work is required, along with 3+ years of experience in mental health and addictions services. Candidates must have a proven background in leading patient experience initiatives and experience facilitating consultations with diverse participants.
Supporting broadly across the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute (CFMHRI), the Patient Engagement in Research Coordinator will support the strategic priority to integrate the voice of people with lived/living experience and family members in processes, operations, planning, knowledge translation and evaluation of research activities at CAMH. The Coordinator will draw on the voices of people with lived experience to improve research quality, shape research objectives and improve outcomes.
Reporting to the Research Operations Manager, Clinical Research, and working as part of a team collaboratively with the Family Engagement in Research Coordinators and others across CAMH, the Coordinator will facilitate patient–research partnerships and enhance patient engagement opportunities in research.
Specifically, the role will include, but not be limited to, the following activities:
Work with research team members to support opportunities for patient engagement in research projects
Support the development of training and education initiatives on best practices for patient and family/caregiver engagement in research for research staff and advisors
Support patient advisors to participate on various research committees, projects and working groups across the hospital
Facilitate patient contributions through partnership and consultation/advisory processes to the development of grant proposals, research protocols, informed consent forms, manuscripts, reports, presentations, workshops, on-line and print resources (e.g. recruitment materials)
Support the recruitment and matching of patient advisors to research projects and broad initiatives
Facilitate the lived experience advisory group for research
Act as an advocate for integrating the patient voice into the research across CAMH
Monitor and meet project deadlines and deliverables, prepare presentations and reports, coordinate team schedules, and ensure compliance of all project activities with clinical, scientific and research ethics board requirements
Support administrative tasks related to engagement such as the collection of performance metrics, maintenance of databases and websites
Other duties, including administrative tasks related to patient engagement activities, as required.
The candidate will support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable regulatory and legislative requirements. This position is located at 1001 Queen Street Site.
Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health.
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