Research Project Staff 80 – 100 %

Research Project Staff 80 – 100 %

Become part of a nationwide study on chronic back pain: Support the RESOLVE project in developing a web application and help shape digital pain education.

Department: Health

Start date: Immediately or by arrangement, limited to 4 months

• Participation in a research project on physiotherapy for patients with chronic back pain
• Responsibility for the content development and maintenance of a web application with educational content on pain
• Conducting a usability test with patients and physiotherapists (planning, execution, evaluation)
• Interprofessional collaboration with physiotherapists and IT partners to finalize the web application
• Support for patients and physiotherapists in introducing the web app into clinical practice
• Support for the RESOLVE core team with other exciting tasks related to the start of patient recruitment
• Master's degree in physiotherapy or BSc with expertise in treating patients with chronic back pain and research interest
• Digital affinity and experience working with web applications or content management systems
• Advantageous: experience with usability tests
• Good knowledge of modern pain science

The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, with over 14,000 students and over 11,000 continuing education participants as well as around 3,700 employees, is one of the largest multi-disciplinary universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.

ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams to promote equality, diversity, and innovation.

The Department of Health is the largest and most renowned Swiss education and research center for occupational therapy, midwifery science, nursing, physiotherapy, and health sciences. We stand for a corporate culture in which we encourage employees to take responsibility and sometimes take new paths in the organization. Since 2014, we have been certified as a Friendly Workspace.

The Institute of Physiotherapy at the Department of Health offers teaching and research in healthcare with 800 students in BSc, MSc, and continuing education. It stands for high quality and national as well as international networking and is characterized as an innovative, dynamic, and quality-conscious working environment with a high degree of self-organization. Your modern workplace is centrally located in Winterthur (near the train station).

Please note that we only consider applications via the online platform

We offer university-appropriate working and employment conditions and actively promote the personnel development of our employees and managers. A detailed description of the benefits can be found on the "Working at ZHAW" website. Here are the main points:

Prof. Dr. Markus Wirz

Head of Research and Development Physiotherapy

Irina Keiser

Recruiting Manager