Research Assistant (Research Nurse)

Post Summary The Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) is led by Professor Mary McCarron (Professor of Ageing and Intellectual Disability) within the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability, Trinity College Dublin. IDS-TILDA is a large scale nationally representative study of people with an intellectual disability aged 40 years and over. The longitudinal design entails interviews at incremental time periods over a number of waves. Five waves of data collection have now been successfully completed. The post advertised is for the accompanying Health Fair for Wave 6. The Health Fair will last for approximately eight months. The staff appointed to this post will work as part of a multi-disciplinary IDS-TILDA Health Fair team under the supervision of the Research Nurse Manager to perform a suite of Wave 6 Health Assessments on participants with an Intellectual Disability, which includes a coordinated approach to participant care. The Research Nurse will be expected to maintain a high standard of nursing care and to maintain a high standard of professional and ethnical responsibility. The Research Nurse will assess, plan, implement and evaluate participants to the highest professional and ethical standards and best practice. Application Procedure