Senior Research Assistant – Health/Medical Technology Assessment (Physical medical devices) : University of Central Lancashire

The University is looking at appoint a Senior Research Assistant to deliver business support to SMEs based in Lancashire through the Lancashire Health Matters project. In collaboration with the NHS Innovation Agency, the successful applicant will design and oversee a programme of technology assessments (Real World Validation) on physical medical device products that offer the prospect of improving health and healthcare outcomes and/ or lower overall cost.

The appointee will support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that have an innovative health/medical device/product through the Real-World Validation (RWV) process so that they can gain evidence to support the SME to win contracts to supply their product into the NHS. This will also include the organising of RWV trials at testing sites with NHS partner organisations.