Medical Statistician

Job title:

Medical Statistician

Company

University of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Description:UE07: £39,347.00 – £46,974.00 Per Annum.CMVM / MGPHS / USHER InstituteFixed Term: 14 months available from 1st December 2024 (to 31st January 2026)Full Time – 35hrs per week.Location: Usher Building, 5-7 Little France Road, Edinburgh BioQuarter – Gate 3, Edinburgh, EH16 4UXThe Centre for Population Health Sciences at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a flexible, enthusiastic and confident medical statistician to conduct data analysis of large, longitudinal, complex routine datasets (both research cohorts and routine data) working as part of a large team across several institutions.The Opportunity:
The opportunity includes working with experts at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) on trajectories of health and care in later life, as well as a Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) funded project to develop a new international reference catalogue of human diseases and treatable traits.The role will involve analysing linked large routine healthcare datasets to examine the epidemiology of individual conditions and multimorbidity, and to explore the applicability to the actual population treated of research trial-derived evidence. Working with the wider HDR UK team, it will involve supporting the creation of data analysis tools for multiple users and supporting the development of individual condition phenotypes.Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof Bruce Guthrie, Professor of General Practice ( )Your skills and attributes for success:

• A PhD (or near completion) in medical statistics, epidemiology, informatics or another relevant quantitative discipline closely related discipline (or relevant quantitative methods focused MSc with considerable experience of relevant data management and analysis) (Desirable).
• Knowledge and experience of statistics in an epidemiological framework, including an understanding of prospective studies and linked healthcare data, including statistical modelling.
• Experience of complex and reproducible data management of linked routine healthcare datasets including data from general practice electronic health records and hospital discharge data (Desirable).
• Experience of using programmatic statistical packages e.g. R or Stata (Desirable).

Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.Non-University of Edinburgh employees (i.e. external applicants) – please refer to the system user guide.Current University of Edinburgh employees (i.e. internal applicants) interested in applying for this role – you must apply as an internal applicant through the People and Money Current Jobs tile. Please refer to the system user guide.As a valued member of our team you can expect:An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages (opens new browser tab).Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.– where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world.Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.About the Team:The Usher Institute works with people, populations and their data to understand and advance the health of individuals and populations through innovative collaborations in a global community. Our Director is Professor Aziz Sheikh OBE, and we sit within the Edinburgh Medical School in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.Working with partners across the NHS, policymakers, industry partners and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos. Three core research centres in Global Health, Medical Informatics and Population Health Sciences are at the heart of the Usher Institute; also home to the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit and a bustling General Practice, the Mackenzie Medical Centre.The Usher Institute is a truly interdisciplinary environment. Around 350 researchers and support staff with expertise in a varied range of methodologies and topics contribute to world-leading research in global health, population health sciences and medical informatics. Our research expertise is at the heart of the excellent educational experience we offer in a wide range of taught and research postgraduate programmes, both online and on-campus, our programme of continuing professional development and in our contribution to the undergraduate medical degree.We maintain an open, engaging and dynamic environment and welcome collaborations from around the globe.To find out more visit

Expected salary

£39347 – 46974 per year

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:11:08 GMT

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