PhD Candidate: Appropriate Care in District Nursing

• A contract for a duration of 12 months, with the intention to extend to a total of four years. The PhD Candidate Directive applies to this vacancy.
• Classification in salary scale Researcher in Training (OIO) 21: € 3,217 to € 4,077 gross for a full-time employment (depending on experience). Additionally, you will receive an 8.3% end-of-year bonus. Calculate your net salary here.
• Vacation hours: 194.4 hours per year for a full-time employment and the possibility to save up hours.
• 100% public transport reimbursement. Do you come by walking, cycling, or by car? Then you will receive a reimbursement of €0.21 per km (for the car, a maximum of 40 km one way applies).
• Do you come by bike? Make use of our good bicycle scheme.
• Pension accrual at BeFrank, a modern, understandable, and fairly priced pension.

As a PhD candidate, you are responsible for the (further) conceptualization and setup of individual studies. Within this, there is room for your own input and initiative. You will conduct literature research and document analyses and map out experiences and perspectives through interviews, focus groups, and observations. You will work in co-creation with clients, citizens, project leaders, coordinators, and researchers on the development and testing of practical tools. You will carry out a pilot study in academic community nursing workshops, analyze the results, and discuss them together with stakeholders to arrive at concrete improvement actions. You will process the research results into scientific articles and contribute to tools with which academic workshops can monitor, evaluate, and safeguard participation.

During your doctoral trajectory, you will work on your professional development, for example by following courses at the Graduate School; you will also contribute to education (including medical humanities) in the Medicine program (UMC Utrecht).

What do you bring?

We are looking for a driven, curious, social, and decisive researcher who enjoys collaborating with various stakeholders and wants to connect scientific research to practical improvements. You are interested in client and citizen participation and find it interesting to bring different perspectives together. You work carefully and independently, take initiative, and possess good communication skills. Furthermore, you bring:

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