Research Student (Masters Student Placement)

Research Student (Masters Student Placement)

Term: May - August 2025 (Full-Time Placement)

POSITION SUMMARY:

The SE Research Centre conducts impact-oriented health services research to synthesize, generate, translate, adapt, and directly apply scientific evidence in the design, delivery and evaluation of person and family-centered health and social care services.

The primary role of the research assistant is to provide support to a health services research project within the SE Research Centre priority research field, 'Health and Care Experiences'.

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a research student with interest in working at the intersection of healthcare, data and quality improvement focused on health informatics, survey methods, learning health systems, and/or data science to support an organization-wide learning community focused on understanding patient reported experience measure (PREM) data collected in the organization and how it can enhance data-informed decision making. This is a great opportunity to explore data visualization within a new client-reported experience measure data under the supervision of a nurse scientist.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project and community management activities

· Coordinate and manage learning community activities, including meetings, workshops, and knowledge-sharing events.

· Maintain documentation and resources for the learning community.

· Participate in and document action items from team meetings.

Data analysis and visualization

· Analyze Patient-Reported Experience Measure (PREM) data to identify trends and insights.

· Contribute to the development of clear, compelling data visualizations to communicate findings.

· Provide support to learning community members through translation of data into actionable recommendations.

Knowledge Mobilization and Communication

· Facilitate discussions and presentations within the learning community.

· Participate knowledge mobilization through creation of lay summaries and key message to share with interested parties.

· Participate in writing research conference abstracts, publications, and/or a project grant outline.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience

· Graduate student or Graduate degree in health informatics, public health, health sciences, or data science or a related field.

· An understanding of and/or experience working in health assessment data and/or patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) and/or outcome measures.

Skill Requirements

· Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel SPSS, R, Microsoft Power BI).

· Experience generating knowledge mobilization products including lay and academic writing.

· Demonstrated ability to plan projects.

· Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

· Ability to contribute to a team under complex research and organizational conditions, and in an environment of multiple priorities.

· Diplomacy and interpersonal skills.

· Excellent problem solving, creative thinking and decision-making capacity.

About Us:

At SE, we love what we do. Every day, we bring hope and happiness to clients, homes, and communities across Canada. We treat each person with dignity and love, like our own family; we build empathy; and we do the right thing. We are always inspired to make a difference. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we share knowledge, provide the best care, and help each client to realize their most meaningful goals for health and wellbeing. We are an inclusive workplace offering competitive salary, group benefits, RRSP pension, and work life balance. We're a great place to work, and we hope you'll join our team.

In the interest of the health and safety of our patients/clients, employees, and greater good of public health, SE Health requires those that wish to work for this organization to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Fully vaccinated means a person has received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and it has been 14 days since the last dose.

SE Health is committed to the success of all its employees. If you feel you need accommodations because of illness or disability, please do not hesitate to contact Talent Acquisition Team at careers@sehc.com at your earliest convenience.