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About the Role
The Research Lead will support the Mental Health team to increase the impact of its portfolio of psychological and social interventions in the UK. The role involves understanding evidence, delivery models, and systems to make effective interventions available and working with partners to identify pathways for adoption and implementation.
Responsibilities
- Develop a strong understanding of Wellcome’s psychological and social intervention portfolio in the UK and the evidence, delivery models, and populations it covers.
- Identify key barriers to access, adoption, implementation, and scale of promising psychological and social interventions.
- Work with grant holders and relevant partners to develop pathways from research to impact.
- Support Wellcome's existing and new investments to maximize their potential for impact.
- Build knowledge and relationships across the UK mental health system to understand where Wellcome can best contribute.
- Contribute to wider Mental Health strategy and portfolio management, bringing insight from the UK into decisions about future investment and priorities.
Requirements
- Proven significant experience and knowledge of psychosocial interventions and innovation for mental health with a UK focus.
- Experience of setting up and delivering high profile, strategic initiatives with multi-disciplinary teams at a variety of scales.
- Experience of managing projects and/or people across different areas of expertise.
Skills
- Leading complex strategic initiatives
- Building influential partnerships
- Working across multidisciplinary teams
- Managing multiple priorities
- Navigating ambiguity
- Influencing senior stakeholders
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- Excellent delivery
Location
- UK
- Remote
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Significant experience in mental health and psychosocial interventions
Salary/Compensations
- £ 66,480 - £83,100
Benefits
- Flexible working options
About the Company
- 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 are committed to spending £16bn in the ten years to 2032, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.