The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Senior Statistician to join our Clinical Trials Unit. This role offers an exciting opportunity to manage a team in applying innovative statistical approaches. The Royal Marsden has a vital role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education, and leading-edge practice.
We are incredibly proud of our international reputation for pushing the boundaries and for our ground-breaking work ensuring our patients receive the very best and latest in cancer treatment and care. RM CTU is a UKCRC accredited clinical trials unit, with a wide-ranging portfolio of cancer research trials across multiple tumour groups. Our UKCRC accreditation indicates RM CTU as a centre of excellence with a strong track record of coordinating multi-centre trials, expert staff to develop studies, robust quality assurance systems and evidence of long-term viability of capacity for trial management. We would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of the Research Data and Statistics Unit (RDSU), which provides expert support and advice relating to the full range of statistical and analytical aspects of the Trust's clinical research and audit programmes. The focus of the role is involvement in all aspects of study design, protocol development, database design, data handling, trial management and statistical analysis. The majority of the time will be spent on the analysis of research and audit data, ensuring that the appropriate statistical techniques are used, and presenting and explaining the results to users in a clear, comprehensible manner.
The post holder will play a role in supporting the statistical requirements of the Royal Marsden Clinical Trials Unit (RMCTU). The post holder will be expected to have management responsibilities of junior statisticians within the team and will be responsible for ensuring that they are trained to a competent level having an agreed development plan in place.
Job responsibilities
* To maintain full working knowledge of the in-house software used to collect and analyse clinical research data such as STATA and MACRO.
* To maintain knowledge of the EU directive on clinical trials (EU directive 2001/20/EC) and ICH GCP according to EU directive 2005/28/EC.
* To gain a good knowledge of the clinical features, management and treatment of the disease being studied, and to keep updated of any developments in the area.
* To liaise with, advise and educate clinicians on the design aspects of clinical trials, research studies and audits and to be responsible for the statistical design where appropriate.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Good honours degree or equivalent in a subject with a statistical component.
* Higher qualification in statistics or appropriate experience in applied statistics, preferably in the role of medical statistician (with appropriate higher degree).
Experience
* Experience in contributing to the statistical design of clinical trials.
* Experience in manipulating complex databases.
* Experience of carrying out survival analysis and the application of other relevant statistical techniques.
* Experience of presenting complex statistical information so that it is understandable to users without statistical knowledge.
* Awareness of research governance issues in clinical trials.
* Practical experience of PC Applications and good knowledge of MS Office products.
* Evidence of publications in peer reviewed journals.
* Experience of managing staff.
Skills Abilities/knowledge
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to select an appropriate methodology when analysing data.
* Good working knowledge of STATA or similar statistical analysis packages.
* Excellent computing and database skills.
* Excellent statistical analysis skills.
* Report writing and written presentation skills.
* Good knowledge of the disease process and treatment of cancer.
* Teaching experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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