Vacancies
Senior Medical Statistician
Reference: 321-D-NW-125
£38,851- £46,621 pro rata
Description
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of three hospitals - the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
The Centre for Statistics in Medicine in Oxford (Director: Professor Doug Altman) carries out collaborative medical research projects, a methodological research programme, and teaching. Members of the Centre have a particular interest in randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, prognostic and diagnostic studies. The Centre currently employs 15 statisticians plus other researchers and is part of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford. The Centre is located at an attractive site at Wolfson College, North Oxford.
Applications are invited for a senior medical statistician to join the NHS statistical support team, currently comprising 5 statisticians. The support team provides statistical input to the Research Design Service South Central and expert statistical input into collaborative health research. Projects include phase II-III national and international randomised controlled trials and observational studies. The statistician typically collaborates directly with the lead researcher, taking responsibility for the design, analysis and clear interpretation in public dissemination. Some projects are in collaboration with the Oxford Clinical Trials Unit for Mental Illness and the Oxford Vaccine Group, both UKCRN Registered Clinical Trials Units. Members of the support team also carry out methodological research, offer statistical advice to researchers and run statistical courses.
The successful applicant would be expected to provide major input into the RDS South Central as both methodologist and research advisor, and work on a number of concurrent collaborative projects as the primary statistician, dealing directly with the multi-disciplinary project team. You would also be expected to teach on courses for clinicians and scientists, contribute to masterclasses run by the RDS and contribute to the development of the team portfolio of statistical collaboration and consultancy with clinical researchers. You may also be asked to take some line management responsibility.
Applicants should ideally have a good (first or upper second) first degree (preferably with a large statistical component) and a postgraduate qualification in medical statistics (or a closely related subject). They should have substantial experience working as a medical statistician in collaborative clinical research and expertise in key aspects of study design and analysis, particularly applied to randomised clinical trials; they should be aware of the latest statistical techniques. Experience in the use of statistical packages is essential together with good verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex statistical issues to non-statisticians.
The post is part-time (up to 0.7fte), available immediately and appointment will be until 31st December 2013 in the first instance. Salary will be in the range £38,851 - £46,621 per annum (pro-rata) depending on qualifications and experience (NHS Agenda for Change Band 8a).
Potential applicants may wish to discuss the post informally with Ly-Mee Yu (Tel: 01865 284405; email: ly-mee.yu@csm.ox.ac.uk).
Completed application forms should be returned together with a covering letter, setting out how you fit the criteria, CV and supporting your application, please also attach a copy of up to 3 recently published or submitted papers/articles. Please send this information to- Tracy Edwards, Unit Administrator, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College Annexe, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD. Please note that we cannot consider an application that does not contain a completed application form.
Please note that this post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, this will not apply. This statement does not apply to Medical staff.
Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short listing process, usually within 2 weeks. (Please note that shortlisting times vary when applying for a Medical position within the Trust) The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
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