PRIMARY DETAIL
Join our team and contribute to meaningful changes in healthcare by ensuring that the perspectives of people with intellectual disability are heard and valued.
• Salary Package: Level A academic appointment - from $109,272 to $117,108 p.a. (Steps 6–8, PhD awarded rate)
• Appointment Type: Full-time, fixed-term position for 1 year (with possibility of extension)
• Location: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University (Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde)
Be part of a passionate team that brings together healthcare consumers, clinicians, and health and medical researchers to improve healthcare for and with people with intellectual disability.
In this role, you will apply implementation science methods to explore the use of patient-reported experience measures by people with intellectual disability and their clinicians through multi-site health services research.
Your work will support the advancement of healthcare practices and ensure patient experiences are effectively integrated into care delivery.
The Role
We are looking for a full time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Researcher (Level A) to work within our team.
The position will work with our expert collaborators to bring the evidence base up to date, coordinate the co-design and development of resource materials, pilot and refine the PREM resources, roll-out the PREM resources as part of a demonstration program, assist with evaluation of implementation fidelity and quality improvement project outcomes, and develop and promulgate tools for PREM scaling.
The Implementation Scientist will work with expert advisory groups including consumer representatives, and when studying and implementing interventions, will work closely with participating Local Health Districts and health agencies.
The Implementation Scientist will also work with the project’s mixed-methods researchers to better understand the implementation context, and the project’s health economist to measure costs and benefits associated with PREMs implementation.
About Us
The Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences is ambitiously pushing the boundaries of progressive thinking and challenging what’s possible to solve some of the big issues of our time, both nationally and on a global scale.
The Faculty forms part of Macquarie University Health, an integrated academic health sciences enterprise which incorporates Macquarie University Hospital and primary and speciality clinics.
We have active research programs in neurosciences (especially motor neuron disease, neurological rehabilitation and the clinical neuroscience of pain), cancer medicine, and vascular science, amongst others.
Our Faculty hosts the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), an internationally acclaimed powerhouse researching health systems, e-health and patient safety.
The Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, one of the core research centres within AIHI, has a multi-stream program of research which focuses on investigating the outcomes and safety of health services.
The Centre has particular expertise in assessing the impact of information technologies and investigating the role of electronic health records and decision support in supporting improved health care delivery and health outcomes.
The Centre’s research team is multi-disciplinary and applies a broad range of research techniques, from RCT designs to direct observations of clinical work.
About the Team
Listen to Me is an Australia-wide group of researchers, clinicians, and consumers that aims to improve the healthcare of people with intellectual disability.
The project is led by Professor Reema Harrison at the AIHI, and involves collaborators from Sydney Children's Hospital, St Vincent’s Health Australia, Northern Health, Monash Health and several universities.
Other collaborators, including a range of health system agencies and departments, who make critical contributions to the implementation of the project.
Listen to Me is funded by the Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) and is co-producing patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) using digital tools to make them accessible for people with intellectual disability aged 6 years and older.
Listen to Me includes implementation research projects to understand how to use the resulting PREMs in hospitals to understand the experiences of people with intellectual disability and make improvements in care.
Why Work at Macquarie?
Macquarie is a university on the move - we're bold, innovative, and deeply committed to staff wellbeing.
We rank among the top employers in the Australian Workplace Employers Index and earned a five-star QS World Ranking for employability.
Our prime location is just a short walk from Macquarie University Metro Station and Macquarie Shopping Centre.
Enjoy the benefits of working at a campus that offers:
- 17% Superannuation
- Subsidised onsite parking options
- Flexible work arrangements
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Onsite childcare facilities
- Discounted health insurance through Medibank
- Onsite vacation care
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Subsidised membership at the Sport & Aquatic Centre
- Onsite GP, imaging, and physio clinics
Required Skill Profession
Life Scientists
📌 Postdoctoral Research Fellow Implementation Scientist
🏢 Macquarie University
📍 North Ryde