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Please use the website connection found below to apply for this position The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) an Executive Agency of the Department of Health, is responsible for safeguarding public health by ensuring that all medicines, healthcare products and medical equipment meet the appropriate standards of safety, quality, performance and effectiveness. C £35,000 Statistician/Epidemiologist - Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Group The MHRA undertakes continuous scrutiny of licensed medicines on the UK market to protect public health. The Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Group is directly responsible for the evaluation of drug safety issues. In drug safety, there is a growing focus on proactive risk management planning and population based data sources. The provision of epidemiological data and expertise is recognised to be indispensable to this function. This group now needs a well qualified and experienced Statistician/Epidemiologist. You will be involved in the critical assessment of risk management plans and studies into safety issues. You will have opportunities to participate in the design and conduct of pharmacoepidemiology studies, and the development of analytical methods for use in this context. Experienced in statistical work, relating to the design and analysis of observational studies, you will be thoroughly conversant with both the technical and practical aspects of this field. You must have a degree, or post graduate qualification in statistics/epidemiology (or with a major statistical component) and at least one year's relevant experience. You must welcome the opportunity of working with experts from other scientific backgrounds, to tight deadlines, in the interests of protecting public health. This is a key role offers a generous benefits package, including 30 days holiday, 10.5 public/privilege days, flexible working, civil service pension scheme and season ticket loan Please use the link http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&useSecondary=true&ssDocName=CON2023288&ssTargetNodeId=89 to the MHRA website for further details and online application. The Human Resources Department can be contacted using [log in to unmask] or fax: 020 7084 2522 if you have any queries. The closing date for applications is 14 March 2006. As an Equal Opportunities employer the Department welcomes applications regardless of gender, race, disability or sexuality. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this email is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received.Incoming and outgoing email messages are routinely monitored for compliance with the Department of Healths policy on the use of electronic communications. For more information on the Department of Healths email policy, click http;//www.doh.gov.uk/emaildisclaimer.htm The original of this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable & Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSi this email was certified virus-free