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Researcher, Health Care

Employer

Dental Epidemiology Network

Date Posted

April 09, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Grimshaw, AB
  • Earnings $75.00 to $150.00 weekly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 5 to 10 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Part Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date May 09, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Dental Epidemiology Network

Languages

English

Education

Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry

Tasks

  • Provide advice to senior managers and officials
  • Maintain, update and manage health information databases
  • Perform administrative tasks
  • Compile and analyze statistical information provided by private and public health care institutions and organizations
  • Produce reports
  • Recruit and hire staff
  • Monitor health care programs
  • Present the views of an association or organization to members, the media and the general public
  • Organize conferences and meetings
  • Produce newsletters, magazines and other documents
  • Prepare research papers, educational texts or articles
  • Provide consulting services to government and other organizations
  • Conduct interviews
  • Conduct literature reviews
  • Act as liaison within organization between staff and management around wellness issues
  • Design and implement health and wellness projects or programs
  • Interpret trends and developments on health issues
  • Conduct evaluations and assessments of health projects and programs
  • Develop policies, standards and guidelines
  • Co-ordinate workshops
  • Produce articles to provide health information to association or organization members
  • Co-ordinate multidisciplinary projects
  • Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
  • Monitor and compile research results

Supervision

3-4 people

Functional expertise

  • Policy research and development
  • Professional or technical accreditation
  • Program administration or operations management
  • Public education or information programming
  • Public relations or communications
  • Regulation or legislation policy interpretation and implementation

Policy and program experience

  • Addiction or substance abuse
  • Behaviour disorders
  • Disease control
  • Nutrition
  • Pharmaceutical use
  • Physical rehabilitation
  • Dental health

Research experience

  • Causal-comparative
  • Correlational
  • Experimental or quantitative
  • Historical research
  • Qualitative research
  • Inquiry

Area of work experience

  • Clinical and diagnostic health
  • Emergency health care planning
  • Environmental and occupational health
  • Government health care insurance administration
  • Health administration
  • Health economics
  • Health funding and resource allocation
  • Health human resources planning
  • Health promotion
  • International public health care
  • Professional health care education
  • Public or community health centre

Medical specialization

  • Epidemiology
  • Medical social work
  • Medical sociology
  • Dentistry

Area of specialization

Bioinformatics

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Fast-paced environment

Experience

3 years to less than 5 years

Workplace information

Remote work available


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Researcher, Health Care is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Health Policy Researchers, Consultants and Program Officers
INNOVATIVE

Interest in producing newsletters, magazines and other documents to provide information to members of associations and organizations, and to the public; and in designing health projects and programs

METHODICAL

Interest in co-ordinating information to maintain, update and manage health care information databases, to assess compliance to health standards and identify remedial action if necessary, and to conduct evaluations and assessments of health projects and programs

DIRECTIVE

Interest in consulting with clients in private organizations, and government departments and agencies; in providing advice to senior managers and officials on issues such as health promotion, regulations, standards and financing; and in implementing health projects and programs

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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