Research Assistant

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time

Job id: 089325. Salary: £37,332 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 09 May 2024. Closing date: 16 May 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.

The post will assist a trial statistician and study team with the conduct, analysis, and report randomized controlled trials and well-planned cohort studies.

This post will be offered on a full-time, 6-month contract.

Key responsibilities

Technical

To assist with the set up, 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 assist with study teams

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 not be expected to work independently in planning day to day activities in accordance with the project deadlines.

Service Delivery:
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 assist with reporting 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

1. Formal qualification in statistics or a substantial statistical content

2. Familiarity with statistical software packages such as STATA, (or R)

3. Understanding of the fundamental principles of epidemiology or medical statistics

4. Motivated and self-disciplined

Desirable criteria

1. Post-graduate degree in Biometry, Medical or Applied Statistics

2. Experience in the conduct of randomised controlled trials

3. To have published peer reviewed publications

4. Experience of working as the technical expert in a multidisciplinary team

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