Company Description

Amwell digitally empowers payers, providers and innovators, enabling an ecosystem of care that spans across in-person, virtual and automated care.

Amwell provides a leading hybrid care enablement platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, payers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care.

Amwell believes that hybrid care delivery will transform healthcare. The company offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all digital health needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy living.

With nearly two decades of experience, Amwell powers the hybrid care of more than 55 health plans, which collectively represent more than 90 million covered lives, and many of the nation’s largest health systems, representing over 2,000 hospitals, have access to Amwell solutions.

For more information, please visit Amwell.com.

Brief Overview:

We seek a naturally curious, passionate, and gifted researcher to contribute to our research & analytics team and help drive impact value and outcomes across our product solutions.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about digital healthcare and the future of this field. You want to be part of the solution and be involved in a mission that impacts millions of lives.

Core Responsibilities:

• To work under the direction of the Head of Research or a person designated by him.
• To provide assistance in conducting research activities, including planning, organizing, conducting, analyzing data and communicating research findings within the overall scope of a research project.
• To coordinate and perform a variety of independent and team activities involved in the design, preparation, implementation, analysis, and documentation of research.
• To lead project-related tasks including collecting and managing data (coordinating the development of forms, and questionnaires, conducting qualitative interviews), writing up research protocols, and carrying out data analysis with support from colleagues.
• To present information on research progress and outcomes to others responsible for the research project and those outside of the research team.
• To provide guidance as required to any support staff and/or research students assisting with the research project.
• To contribute to the preparation of manuscripts for publication, writing results, and discussions relevant to the literature. Handling the submission for publication process including responding to peer reviews and revising manuscripts
• To develop plans for research projects and to discuss the interpretation of results and the preparation of manuscripts for publication with the Chief Science Officer or person designated by him.
• To liaise with ethics committees regarding the submission of required documentation, patient rights, safety, and well-being of research participants.
• To ensure compliance with SOPs and local security guidelines.
• To perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein as well as occasionally supporting with the development of clinical content for online delivery.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Both undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in psychology, or a related discipline
• Experience in recruiting, retaining and following up participants for research trials.
• Experience in the collection and management of quantitative and qualitative data.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and experience working directly with participants and (ideally) clinicians.
• Experience in preparing and submitting documentation to ethical approval bodies (ideally within the NHS)
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (for ethics applications, publications, dissemination)
• Ability to self-manage, seek support appropriately and multi- task.
• Good working knowledge of statistics and statistical software such as SPSS or R
• Experience and knowledge in research methodologies and trial design.

Desirable:

• Previous research experience in clinical trials
• Interest and experience with the administration and/or use of online delivered interventions for mental and behavioral health problems.
• Working knowledge of common clinical presentations and therapeutic approaches, particularly CBT
• Some experience of clinical settings and of delivery of mental health interventions

Additional information

Job Level: P1

Working at Amwell:

Amwell is changing how care is delivered through online and mobile technology. We strive to make the hard work of healthcare look easy. In order to make this a reality, we look for people with a fast-paced, mission-driven mentality. We’re a culture that prides itself on quality, efficiency, smarts, initiative, creative thinking, and a strong work ethic.

Our Core Values include One Team, Customer First, and Deliver Awesome. Customer First and Deliver Awesome are all about our product and services and how we strive to serve. As part of One Team, we operate the Amwell Cares program, which brings needed assistance to our communities, whether that be free healthcare for the underserved or for people affected by natural disasters, support for equality, honoring doctors and nurses, or annual Amwell-matched donations to food banks. Amwell aims to be a force for good for our employees, our clients, and our communities.

Amwell cares deeply about and supports Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. These initiatives are highlighted and reflected within our Three DE&I Pillars - our Workplace, our Workforce and our Community.

Amwell is a "virtual first" workplace, which means you can work from anywhere, coming together physically for ideation, collaboration and client meetings. We enable our employees with the tools, resources and opportunities to do their jobs effectively wherever they are! Amwell has collaboration spaces in Boston, Tysons Corner, Portland, Woodland Hills, and Seattle.

Additional Benefits

• Flexible Personal Time Off (Vacation time)
• 401K match
• Competitive healthcare, dental and vision insurance plans
• Birthing parents at Amwell enjoy up to 18 weeks of paid maternity leave
• Non-birthing parents enjoy 10 weeks of paid leave
• US employees experiencing reproductive loss are eligible for up to 7 days of paid leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Free access to Amwell’s Telehealth Services, SilverCloud and The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic’s second opinion program
• Free Subscription to the Calm App
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance