Please see below details of a vacancy at the University of Nottingham.   This may be of interest to you or your colleagues.

 

 

Senior Health Economist

 

Reference: MED325415

Salary:  £37,768 to £46,414 per annum depending on skills and experience.

 

Applications are invited for the above jointly funded post based at the NIHR Research Design Service for the East Midlands (RDS EM) and the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit (NHBRU), Division of Clinical Neuroscience.

 

NIHR RDS East Midlands (www.rds-eastmidlands.nihr.ac.uk) is one of ten regional centres funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to provide design and methodological support to health and social care researchers who are developing grant applications for submission to NIHR and other national peer-reviewed funding programmes. 

 

NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit (NHBRU) (www.hearing.nihr.ac.uk/) is a partnership between Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Nottingham and Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research. It builds on established programmes of research and intervention using hearing instruments, auditory learning and the auditory brain and conducts research through multidisciplinary collaboration that can be translated into practical benefits to improve the quality of patients’ lives.

 

This is an attractive opportunity for an experienced health economist to join the team of RDS advisors who support researchers across the East Midlands, and to participate in collaborative research as a member of a multidisciplinary team at NHBRU.  The successful candidate will be expected to provide expert advice on the health economic components, and more general aspects of research funding proposals. They will also be expected to lead on, and contribute to the delivery of events, workshops and occasional seminars/standalone courses.  

 

Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent in a subject that is relevant to applied health services research, or have significant research experience in this area.  They should also have considerable experience of collaborative research and a proven track record of published peer reviewed publications. 

 

Post-graduate training in health economics and experience in various health economic evaluation methods are essential. Extensive collaborative research experience within health economics should include experience of providing input into the health economic aspects of study design, data management and methods of analysis. Candidates must have the ability to communicate with clarity complex research processes to researchers from both academic and clinical backgrounds, and to researchers with different levels of experience. An understanding of research funding is important and the ability to discuss research ideas at an early stage is essential.  Helping researchers to refine research questions and ensuring what they propose is manageable and of high methodological quality is an important element of the post.

 

For more details and/or to apply on-line please access: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/MED325415

Closing date: 29 January 2016.

 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to:

Dr Sarah Armstrong (RDS EM), Email: [log in to unmask]

and/or

Dr Padraig Kitterick (NHBRU) Email: [log in to unmask]

Please note that applications sent directly to these Email addresses will not be accepted.

 

 

 

 

 

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