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Research Fellow (Statistician)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£48,737 - £51,423 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
3 Oct 2022

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Job description

The post holder will work with internationally renowned King’s College London clinicians and scientists to evaluate novel interventions and medications in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience.   

 

The post holder will lead a team of statisticians and work with multidisciplinary teams to work up future funding applications for clinical trials, and to act as the trial statistical in the conduct of clinical trials of investigational medicinal products. 

 

They should proactively lead collaborations, to plan, monitor, conduct, analyse, and report randomized controlled trials and well conducted cohort studies. 

 

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 3 years 

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

 

Key responsibilities

Technical  

•              To undertake all stages of clinical research, including planning, design, conduct, ongoing reporting, and analyses of multicentre studies that evaluate the clinical effectiveness of medicinal interventions in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience

•              To have a robust working knowledge of the Good Clinical Practice and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004

•              To show methodological leadership throughout all stages of a randomised controlled trial

•              To act as a Senior Statistician for early phase or feasibility studies

 

Communication & Networking:

•              Communicate conceptual and complex ideas to lay, and technical audiences

•              To contribute actively to team meetings presenting own work, and providing advice to others

 

Decision Making, Planning and Problem Solving:

•              The post-holder will be expected to work independently in planning day to day activities in accordance with the project deadlines. 

 

Service Delivery:

•              Independently provide advice and deal with queries of a specialist nature, interpret requirements of collaborators

•              To promote good programming standards operating to KCTU- SOPs

 

Analysis & Research:

•              To report and disseminate statistical methodology and analysis results

•              To have an establish area of methodological research

 

Team Work, Teaching & Learning Support:

•              To contribute to leading departmental teaching

•              To contribute to helpdesk, computer-lab tutoring and occasional lectures.

•              To embrace the attitude of a team player, and play a full part of a multidisciplinary research team 

 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria  

  1. Formal qualification in statistics or a substantial statistical content 
  2. Post-graduate degree in Biometry, Medical or Applied Statistics  
  3. Considerable understanding of epidemiology and medical statistics including, longitudinal analysis and handling of missing data   
  4. Knowledge/experience in the conduct of all stages of a randomised controlled trials (RCT) from conception to dissemination 
  5. To have independently worked up a grant submission from conception to submission 
  6. Experience as the statistical lead in published medical research 
  7. To have published in leading clinical journals with a clear position of contribution commensurate with a Research Excellence Framework of at least nationally relevant impact 
  8. Experience of working as the technical expert in a multidisciplinary team  
  9. Motivated and self-disciplined 
  10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate to lay, as well as technical audiences 

Desirable criteria

1.       Qualification relating specifically to Clinical Trials, Psychology or Neuroscience 

2.       In-depth understanding of the International Committee on Harmonisation (ICH) principles, and their application 

3.       To have been awarded funding (principal investigator or co-investigator) from a national peer reviewed funder (eg NIHR, MRC, Welcome Trust)

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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