Grade 7: Salary in the range of £29,541 to £36,298 per annum
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a medical statistician to join the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) to work with Dr Gary Collins and Professor Doug Altman on a methodological programme around clinical prediction. CSM is one of the world’s leading centres for research into design, development, validation and reporting of clinical prediction models. This role is jointly funded by two research grants (MRC & NIHR) and the post-holder will be actively supporting aspects of both research grants.
The post holder will primarily focus on aspects of the methodology and reporting of studies of predictive markers and multivariable prediction models, including systematic reviews of such studies (MRC) and will have responsibility for evaluating the ability of the clinical risk prediction tool to predict patient outcomes at 2 years post surgery using data from a large prospective study of patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery (NIHR).
You will hold an MSc in Statistics and have considerable experience in medical statistics. You will have knowledge of medical statistics, expertise in patient level datasets, as well proficiency in statistical analysis packages, e.g. R, Stata or SAS software. You will have a publication record as a medical statistician contributing to clinical research as well as high level computing literacy in e-mail, Microsoft Word, Access, Excel and Powerpoint. Good organisational and time management skills are essential to this post. Experience of studies in prognosis or prediction, and programming skills (preferably a statistical language) are desirable.
This is a full time fixed-term appointment for 2 years in the first instance.
The closing date for this position is midday on Wednesday 17 July 2013. You will be required to upload a CV and supporting statement as part of your application.
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https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=108552
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