Research Assistant

Supervisors:Monika Novak Pavlic and Gillian King

Program:Bloorview Research Institute

Join us in building a world of possibility! Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada's largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital. We are a top 40 Canadian research hospital that is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and we serve over 8,500 families annually.

We are seeking four Research Assistants to join the PRIME-C research team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. The PRIME-C research team focuses on advancing meaningful engagement of children and youth in pediatric rehabilitation by developing a child-centred measure of engagement in rehabilitation. The project aims to better understand how children and youth experience and engage in rehabilitation, ensuring that their perspectives and voices are meaningfully incorporated into the development and evaluation of rehabilitation services.

The work draws on mixed methods, co-design, cognitive interviewing, and psychometric methods, with youth actively involved in shaping the research process and outcomes.

The Research Assistants will report to Dr. Monika Novak Pavlic and Dr. Gillian King and will contribute to recruitment, data collection and data management. The Research Assistants will be based across four participating sites in Ontario:
Toronto, London, Ajax, and the Kitchener-Waterloo region. The successful candidates will support research activities at their respective site and collaborate with the broader PRIME-C research team.

• Support recruitment and enrollment of children and youth participating in the PRIME-C study
• Coordinate and conduct on-site research visits and data collection
• Engage children and youth in research activities in a welcoming, age-appropriate, and inclusive manner
• Maintain accurate and organized research records and participant documentation
• Communicate regularly with the PRIME-C research team and participate in multi-site team meetings
• Coordinate and support qualitative and quantitative data collection
• Contribute to ongoing refinement of the PRIME-C by sharing observations and feedback related to children's and youths' experiences of the research process
• Other duties as assigned
• A minimum of an undergraduate degree in a health-related field. Preference given to those who have completed a Master's degree.
• At least 2 years of clinical experience in pediatric rehabilitation or research experience in a similar role
• Experience engaging with youth, families/caregivers, healthcare providers, researchers, and/or health-system partners
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection and management
• Experience and knowledge of MS Office products and virtual meeting tools (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Zoom)
• Strong written and oral communication, organization, time management, and project coordination skills
• Ability to take initiative and work independently, while also collaborating effectively as a member of multidisciplinary and multi-knowledge user teams
• Experience with REDCap is an asset

About the Organization Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital creates a world of possibility by supporting children and youth with disabilities, medical complexity, illness and injury. All of our work is guided by our strategic plan, Transformative Care, Inclusive World:
Holland Bloorview 2030. The plan: https://strat

To get a glimpse as to who Holland Bloorview is, we invite you to watch the Together We Dare. Video:

Holland Bloorview is committed to fostering a climate of inclusion, diversity, equity accessibility, and anti-racism (IDEAA). This commitment is central to, and mutually supportive of, our research excellence mandate. We welcome and respect the diversity of all members of our community and we seek to create an inclusive culture for our clients, families, research scientists, staff, participants, trainees, volunteers, trustees, and partners.

To help in our journey towards fully reflecting the communities we partner with, we welcome and encourage applications from Black individuals and other racialized persons, Indigenous Peoples, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI2SA+ persons, and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas within our community. Holland Bloorview is committed to fair assessment of a candidate's abilities, and consideration for diversity of thought, method, and experience, including non-traditional career paths.

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