Research Associate - London, United Kingdom - King's College London

King's College London

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Salary: £43,205 - £50,585 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 28 February 2024.

Closing date: 19 March 2024.

Business unit:
IoPPN

Department:
Biostatistics & Health Informatics.

Location:
Denmark Hill Campus

Category:
Research.

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Job description

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

With a background of epidemiology and medical statistics the post holder will impact on improved understanding of health outcomes, the exposures that influence on them, and mechanisms of how therapies and therapeutics work.

This post will be offered on a full-time, indefinite contract.

Key responsibilities

Technical

To undertake the conduct, ongoing reporting, and analyses of multicentre studies that evaluate the clinical effectiveness of interventions in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience

To ensure that key aspects of the trial in relation to the data quality and data credibility are considered, evaluated, with key decisions documented

To proactively co-author trial documents including the: protocol; statistical analysis plan; data monitoring and ethics committee reports; and clinical study reports.

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

To demonstrate a good working knowledge of the Good Clinical Practice and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.

Analysis & Research:
To report and disseminate statistical methodology and analysis results

To show a desire to establish a personal area of methodological research

Write or contribute to publications or disseminate research finding using other appropriate media.

Team Work, Teaching & Learning Support:
To contribute to the helpdesk

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

Formal qualification in statistics or a substantial statistical content
Familiarity with statistical software packages such as STATA, (or R)
Understanding of the fundamental principles of epidemiology or medical statistics
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate to lay, as well as technical audiences
Experience of working as a statistician in a research environment
Motivated and self-disciplined

Desirable criteria

Post-graduate degree in Biometry, Medical or Applied Statistics
Qualification in the conduct of clinical trials, or experience of the conduct of clinical trials in a regulated industry
Competence in analysis of longitudinal experiments
Experience in the conduct of randomised controlled trials
To have published peer reviewed publications
Experience of working as the technical expert in a multidisciplinary team