Research Officer - Saving Babies Lives Team (6 month Fixed-Term Contract)

This role sits within the well-established Saving Babies’ Lives Team, and this role is part of Sands’ drive to improve maternity and neonatal safety so that babies’ lives are saved, and inequalities are reduced.

Sands’ work to save babies lives focuses on the following objectives:

•        Maternity and neonatal care is continually improved using research and evidence (including the experiences and perspectives of bereaved parents) to inform policy and practice

•        All hospitals in the UK offer safe and personalised maternity and neonatal care

•        Inequalities in outcome in maternity and neonatal care are eliminated

•        Maternity and neonatal services have a culture which embraces and supports learning and improvement

Our aim is to save babies lives, with the UK matching the best-performing countries in Europe in reducing baby deaths, and within this to eliminate inequalities in these outcomes based on ethnicity and deprivation.

The Research Officer will have experience of working with researchers, supporting the development of studies and identifying gaps in evidence, innovation and guidance. Excellent organisation, communication and relationship building skills are key for this role.