Applications are open for a number of positions at INFANT, including:

  1. Senior Research Coordinator – Clinical Project Manager (18th April)
  2. Clinical Research Fellow – Obstetric (18th April)
  3. Clinical Research Fellow – Neonatal (18th April)
  4. Research Assistant (11th April)
  5. Post Doc Researcher: Signal Processing Engineer (18th April)
  6. Clinical Nurse Manager 1 (25th April)
  7. Senior Research Co-Ordinator – Software Engineer (25th April)

 

1. Senior Research Coordinator – Clinical Project Manager 

INFANT is now accepting applications for a Clinical Project Manager to support the work of the ELEVATE programme. The ELEVATE Programme will recruit infants soon after birth to studies at 3 individual sites in Ireland that require multiple assessments at various timepoints.
The Clinical Project Manager will be responsible for the administrative coordination of clinical research within the ELEVATE Programme. This role involves ensuring that all administrative functions for clinical research are organised, including patient tracking, data entry, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder coordination. The successful candidate will oversee site file maintenance, develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and liaise with families and research teams to ensure seamless follow-up of participants.
This role requires a highly organised individual with excellent communication skills. The Clinical Project Manager will ensure that studies adhere to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the standards of the INFANT Quality Management System.
The successful candidate may be asked to support other aspects of the ELEVATE Programme work when relevant and the appointee will be expected to have a flexible approach in this regard. The ideal candidate will be proactive, enthusiastic, very organised and capable of managing a diverse workload. The post holder will be required to regularly travel to participating sites across Ireland.

2. Clinical Research Fellow – Obstetric

Applications are invited for the role of Clinical Research Fellow – Obstetric within the INFANT Research Centre.
The INFANT Centre leads the ELEVATE Programme for Programme for Prediction, Early Detection & Intervention in Cerebral Palsy.  This 5-year programme is focused on the prevention, early detection, and treatment of brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP) in infants during the period of maximum neuroplasticity (up to 2 years of age). The ELEVATE Programme has been jointly funded by Research Ireland and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation through the Strategic Partnership Programme. ELEVATE brings together researchers in research centres and tertiary level maternity hospitals across Ireland as well as three academic centres: University College Cork (UCC), Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
INFANT is now accepting applications for a Clinical Research Fellow to support the work of pillar 1 of the ELEVATE programme – PREVENT: Intelligent monitoring during pregnancy and labour to identify signals of brain injury.
The Clinical Research Fellow will require significant experience in obstetrics and some clinical research experience.
Project Outline
This study will develop a novel, interpretable, AI-assisted monitoring system that will support healthcare providers in identifying fetal asphyxia accurately and promptly during labour. This will be a real-time AI-assisted decision support system incorporating maternal and fetal heart rate signals, uterine contractions, and clinical risk factors to support prompt and accurate identification of fetal compromise during labour, ultimately leading to better management and prevention of some brain injuries.
The successful candidate will provide clinical insights to the project and expertise in fetal monitoring.  The candidate will work with signal processing engineers to label clinical data to enable AI models learn how to more accurately automate the assessment made by expert clinicians. They will also incorporate other clinical data as required. This role will be working under the supervision of Dr Mairead O Riordan.

 

3. Clinical Research Fellow – Neonatal

Applications are invited for the role of Clinical Research Fellow – Neonatal within the INFANT Research Centre.
The INFANT Centre leads the ELEVATE Programme for Programme for Prediction, Early Detection & Intervention in Cerebral Palsy.  This 5-year programme is focused on the prevention, early detection, and treatment of brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP) in infants during the period of maximum neuroplasticity (up to 2 years of age). The ELEVATE Programme has been jointly funded by Research Ireland and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation through the Strategic Partnership Programme. ELEVATE brings together researchers in research centres and tertiary level maternity hospitals across Ireland as well as three academic centres: University College Cork (UCC), Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
INFANT is now accepting applications for a Clinical Research Fellow to support primarily the work of pillar 1 of the ELEVATE programme – PREVENT: Intelligent physiological monitoring of preterm infants to predict brain injury associated with CP and to help across other pillars of the programme.
The Clinical Research Fellow will be required to have significant experience in neonatology and a keen interest or experience in clinical research.
Project Outline
The aim of PREVENT is to  use the latest advances in AI to identify factors in pregnancy, labour and in the early neonatal period that represent increased risks for CP. We will develop novel AI algorithms for the analysis of physiological data continuously and synchronously in preterm infants beginning at birth – 5 days to determine risk for brain injury. The Clinical Research Fellow will work with a multidisciplinary team to advance this project.
  • Project Title: ELEVATE
  • Post Duration:  24 Months Whole-Time Post
  • Salary: €65,237 – €71,085 per annum (IUA Research Fellow Scale)
  • For an information package including further details of the post see https://my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=085431
  • Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday, 18th of April 2025
  • Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Prof Eugene Dempsey.  Email: g.dempsey@ucc.ie

 

4. Research Assistant 

INFANT Research Centre is now accepting applications for a Research Assistant to work on the Prometeus Project (Preterm Brain-Oxygenation and Metabolic EU-Sensing: Feed the Brain). Prometeus is a project aimed at introducing a new paradigm for personalized nutrition of prematurely born neonates in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It will develop a groundbreaking technology for real-time adjustment of glucose and nutrients intakes to target neonatal brain needs.
The Research Assistant will create a multi-platform Ecological Momentary Assessment mobile app for the purpose of investigating experiences of prematurity by parents.  This is leveraging and improving an earlier app we have already developed, with enhancements to accessibility, functionality, security and data privacy.
Specific tasks include but are not limited to: Evaluation of the existing app; defining requirements for the new app; assessment of appropriate app frameworks; development and testing of the new app; deployment, acceptance testing and evaluation of the new app; and documenting the process with a view to publication.
Participation in workshop with clinical practitioners and selected parents will also be required.
  • Project Title: Prometeus
  • Post Duration: 6 Months, Whole-Time Post
  • Salary: €32,962 – € 42,943 p.a. IUA Salary Scale
  • For an information package including further details of the post see https://my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=085774
  • Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Professor Fred Adam Email: Fadam@ucc.ie
  • Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday 11th April 2025

5. Post Doc Researcher: Signal Processing Engineer

INFANT is now accepting applications for a Post Doc Signal Processing Engineer to support the work of the ELEVATE programme.
The ELEVATE programme aims to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to interrogate vast maternal and neonatal datasets already available on thousands of infants through previous INFANT Centre research studies and from data available in the maternal and newborn electronic health record. The datasets will be used to develop models required for early prediction of brain injury associated with CP and to identify the features of pregnancy, labour and the early neonatal period that are commonly associated these injuries.  Early EEG and biomarkers gathered in studies will be assessed for their ability to predict severity of CP motor and cognitive trajectories with the aim of helping to lower the age of diagnoses. Machine learning techniques will be applied to combine datasets to establish the best predictive models for children’s development and potential response to intervention.
  • Project Title: ELEVATE
  • Post Duration: 2 Years
  • Salary: €45,847 – € 52,339 p.a. IUA PD1 Scale
  • For an information package including further details of the post see https://my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=085773 
  • Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Tom Meade, Programme Manager, INFANT Research Centre Email: tmeade@ucc.ie
  • Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday 18th April 2025

 

6. Clinical Nurse Manager 1

INFANT Research Centre is now accepting applications for an enthusiastic and committed Clinical Nurse Manager to work within the INFANT team based at Cork University Hospital and Cork University Maternity Hospital.  As a large maternal and child health research centre, INFANT’s studies include pregnant women and children.
The Clinical Nurse Manager will work on clinical research studies related to maternal and child health at the INFANT Research Centre. The Clinical Nurse Manager will assist INFANT Principal Investigators in the day-to-day management of the research studies including obtaining informed consent to participate, data collection and data entry to research databases, co-ordinating follow-up appointments, assisting in follow-up clinics, and conducting family surveys. The Clinical Nurse Manager will work closely with the INFANT Quality Team to maintain good documentation practices and to ensure compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
Two part time candidates can also be considered for this role.
  • Project Title: Various INFANT Projects
  • Post Duration: 24 Months
  • Salary: Clinical Nurse Manager 1 Scale (€56,081- €66,045)
  • For an information package including further details of the post see https://my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=085734 
  • Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Professor Geraldine Boylan, Director, INFANT Telephone: +353 (0) 21 4205061. Email: g.boylan@ucc.ie
  • Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday 25th April 2025

 

7. Senior Research Co-Ordinator – Software Engineer

The INFANT Centre is leading the ELEVATE Programme which is a 5-year programme focused on the prevention, early detection, and treatment of brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP) in infants. The ELEVATE Programme has been jointly funded by Research Ireland and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. An integrated research database and register for people that suffer from CP will be developed as part of the programme. Families of children with CP cite access to accurate and individualised information as a barrier to participating in the latest research trials and obtaining cutting-edge healthcare information. When registers have been implemented in other countries, they have led to massive reductions in chronic pain and invasive surgeries to manage that pain in children with CP. There is a well-defined foundational dataset at the core of CP Registers that is well understood that will be built on.
The register will integrate with hospital electronic health record systems and will also integrate with a research database that collates data from clinical studies. A data manager and data analyst will be part of the team and will help understand and access this data.
The software engineer will have the responsibility for the design and implementation of the register. They may need to apply themselves to different technologies and domains – there is the opportunity to get experience in a wide range of interesting tools.
There is a great opportunity to evolve sound development practices such as configuration control and continuous integration. A register manager and principal investigator will work with multiple stakeholders to identify and prioritise their requirements during the lifetime of the project. The software engineer will be able to support this work with incremental development that allows stakeholders to visualise solutions.
The successful candidate will have a can-do attitude and will be prepared to support other research projects within the INFANT Centre.
  • Project Title: ELEVATE
  • Post Duration: 3 Years, Whole-Time post
  • Salary: €77,500 gross p.a. Personal Rate
  • For an information package including further details of the post see https://my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=085775 
  • Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday 25th April 2025
  • Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Tom Meade, Programme Manager, INFANT Research Centre Email: tmeade@ucc.ie