An interesting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a high quality Data Quality Programmer to support and enable medical research using CPRD data from a range of NHS sources, including GPs, hospitals and disease registries. By developing automated routines to measure and monitor the quality of different aspects of the data, the post holder will enable researchers to select the best sources of data to answer research questions.
The Organisation: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is the government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe.
Purpose of Role:
Working under the lead researcher at the University of Sussex, the main role is to develop automated routines to measure and monitor data quality for existing and newly contributed CPRD datasets. This includes the development within a standardised context and framework, of an expandable set of ready to use ‘plug-in’ modules to undertake data quality management and monitoring. Instruction and guidance relating to the framework development and eventual use of the modules will be provided by researchers and associated staff where required. This is a key post in terms of measuring data quality (DQ) to enable high level healthcare research using electronic health data. The position will be for one year in the first instance.
A structured training programme will be provided. The post holder will be a key member of the research project entitled “Methods to characterise and monitor data quality in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink”. S/he will spend at least 50% of his/her time in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex and will provide input into further developing the DQ protocol, writing academic papers and reports as well as helping organise a European workshop.
As well as having advanced programming skills and experience, the successful candidate will have an understanding of statistics and the uses of such information.
Key Responsibilities:
Development of generic routines and documentation for constructing measures of general, GP practice and study-specific data quality
Extend and test methods to measure and compare data quality in new sources of GP data
Dissemination of study results through preparation of scientific manuscripts and reports, presentation at internal and external meetings and workshop.
Please ensure to review the full job description and competencies in relation to this position prior to applying. Applicants will be expected to meet and address all the competencies in order to be shortlisted for the interview stage. You can apply for this position by creating a job profile on the Civil Service Jobs Portal here: https://jobsstatic.civilservice.gov.uk/csjobs.html
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