
Research Assistant
4 days ago
Job no: 915972
Work type: Casual
Location: Adelaide Metro Southern
Categories: Administration, Business and Management, Medical, Public Health, Research
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Flinders Medical Centre– HPB & Liver Transplant Unit
- Hourly Rate: $43.86 p/hr - $48.77 p/hr plus 25% casual loading ASO5
Research Support Role - Casual Research Assistant
Join SA Health as a Casual Research Assistant at Flinders Medical Centre and support groundbreaking healthcare research that directly improves patient outcomes across South Australia. You will assist with data collection, analysis, and research coordination while working alongside leading clinicians and researchers in a flexible onsite role. This position offers excellent professional development opportunities within Australia's most trusted healthcare system, where your contributions make a real difference to community health and wellbeing.
About the role:
Reporting to the Head of Unit, this role is responsible for but not be limited to, general activities to support the study, including, recruitment of participants, undertaking interviews, survey collection, data management, qualitative data analysis, liaising with research and clinical staff, and preparation of reports and manuscripts. The position will form part of the multi-disciplinary research team and will play a key role in the evaluation of the quality appraisal program, bearing responsibility for project management and administration, and providing assistance with the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
Duties for the role will include:
- Provide high quality, person centred, research assistant care,
- Deliver a high quality, informed research assistant perspective when interacting with cancer survivors, care givers and health practitioners,
- Lead recruitment of unit staff to the research project and assist in cancer survivor participant recruitment,
- Be responsible for complete and timely data collection, entry and management, and to assist with the analysis of the data generated across research project
- Develop knowledge regarding quality improvement tools such as the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles,
- Participate in ongoing continuous quality improvement activities to promote quality improvement for the research project
About you:
- Ability to work under limited direction, autonomously or as a collaborative member of a team, including an ability to prioritise and effectively manage diverse workloads in order to meet agreed timelines and objectives,
- Excellent organisational and time management skills,
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise and consult with a range of stakeholders,
- Excellent written communication skills
- Experience in research management and data analysis,
- Experience in the use and maintenance of data collections using online survey tools, database and qualitative analysis tool,
- Experience in completing administrative tasks under minimal supervision,
- Experience in preparing and presenting the findings of applied research
Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.
Want To Know More? Contact: Beryl Sutton, SAPOM Administrative Officer, ,
Application Closing Date:11.55 pm Monday 29 September 2025.
Attachments:
- P ASO5 Research Assistant Role Description- FINAL
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines
Applicant Information:
- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 915972
Advertised: 15 Sep 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 29 Sep 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
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