Senior Researcher in Diabetes Nursing Care at Department of Clinical Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen combined with a Clinical Professorship in Endocrinology with special focus on Person-Centred Diabetes Nursing Care

A position as a Senior Researcher in Diabetes Nursing Care at Department of Clinical Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen is open for appointment from as soon as possible.

The position is combined with a 5-year externally funded position as Clinical Professor in Endocrinology with special focus on Person-Centered Diabetes Nursing Care at Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

With this new position, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC) wishes to strengthen the leadership in nursing research and teaching in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen.

It is a requirement that the applicant is accepted for appointment of both the Professor and the Senior Researcher position.

The advertisement for the professorship is available from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=152309

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Organisation

SDCC is the largest diabetes center in Scandinavia treating more than 9500 people with diabetes. SDCC is organized in five units, namely the Clinic, Clinical Research, CoreLab, Health Promotion, and Education.

Clinical Research functions and focus areas of the department

The vision for Clinical Research is to carry out world class research for the benefit of all people with diabetes and people at high risk of developing the disease. Clinical Research consists of 5 research groups, namely Complications Research, Clinical Epidemiology Research, Systems Medicine Research, Translational Type 1 Diabetes Research, Translational Type 2 Diabetes Research, Clinical Diabetes Prevention, and Diabetes Technology Research.

You will be allocated to the research group in Complications Research. This group aims to extend the lives of people with diabetes with good quality years of life by preventing late complications. They therefore investigate new treatments in clinical studies and combine them in some studies with biomarkers to target the treatment. The effect of treatment is assessed on biological endpoints, but also patient-reported effects are important. It is their ambition to involve people with diabetes in research at all levels, including examining preferences and working on shared decision making.

Your tasks will include investigating and providing support to person-centred nursing care of people with diabetes in multidisciplinary inspired surroundings. The multidisciplinary and co-productive approach between healthcare professionals and people with diabetes and mutual projects across Clinical Research, Health Promotion, and Education are prioritized and highly valued.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

With the new position as Senior Researcher and Clinical Professor, SDCC wishes to build capacity and strengthen leadership in clinical nursing research and teaching. We encourage an environment that focuses on learning and education, as well as developing skills within shared decision-making regarding self-management, individual care and support planning, and participation in clinical trials for people with diabetes.

Qualifications

The applicant must hold a Danish nursing authorization and must be experienced in clinical application and research in optimizing user involvement in clinical nursing by use of patient-reported outcome measures, evidence-based patient decision aids, coaching, and provision of user-friendly information and instruction. The applicant is expected to participate in educating all professionals in shared decision-making and can lead innovative processes of user involvement in quality improvement. The applicant must be an established researcher within this field, documented with previous scientific work including publications in the area.

Conditions

In order to be considered, the applicant must send an application to both the faculty (Professor) and to the hospital (Senior Researcher) for the simultaneously advertised position. Appointment is conditional upon the applicant obtaining both positions. This also applies to the applicants who are already employed as Senior Researchers at SDCC.

Salary and conditions of employment as Senior Researcher are as agreed between the Danish Regions and the Danish Nurses Organization and between the Capital Region/Region Zealand and University of Copenhagen.

As Professor, at least 50% of the working time will be allocated to academic tasks (e.g. research, teaching, evaluation tasks, and communication with the public) in agreement with the Head of Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Copenhagen.The remaining time, in agreement with the clinic managers at SDCC, will be allocated to supporting clinical nurses and other health professionals in further developing their person-centered approach to care for people with diabetes.

The Professor will receive secretarial or technical support equivalent to 50% of a full-time secretarial position from the Department of Clinical Research. Additional support and details on the working conditions must be negotiated with the Head of the Department of Clinical Research at SDCC.

Application procedure

The application must include the following:

• Curriculum Vitae and a complete list of publications
• A description of how the applicant is qualified as
  • Clinical expert
  • Communicator
  • Collaborator
  • Manager/administrator/organizer
  • Supervisor
  • Scholar/researcher/teacher

For applicants with a foreign license, a copy of the authorization certificate as nurse is required.

The closing date for applications is Sept. 15, 2020. Interviews are likely to be held Dec. 17, 2020.

Further information

For further information please contact Head of Complications Research Peter Rossing at +45 30913383 or Head of Clinical Research Birgitte Brock at. +45 24641180

Information on Terms of employment for the Capital Region: https://www.regionh.dk/english/job/Pages/default.aspx

• Fakta

• Arbejdssted
  Steno Diabetes Center
• Kontaktperson
  Carol Simonsen
• Adresse
  Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820 Gentofte
• Stillingstyper
  Forskningssygeplejerske
• Ansættelsesform
  Tidsbegrænset periode
• Ugentlig arbejdstid
  Fuld tid
• Ansættelsens start
  Snarest muligt
• Regionens jobnr.
  226006
• Quick-nr.
  395432
• Indrykningsdato
  18-08-2020
• Ansøgningsfrist
  15-09-2020 (udløbet)