Statistician (Fixed Term)

The Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit (CCTU) is a rapidly growing academic unit within the University of Cambridge.

The unit is seeking to recruit an experienced clinical trials statistician to work within our multidisciplinary team and provide strong statistical support for the programme of trials.

The postholder will have excellent programming skills in a statistical package (R, Stata, SAS), Familiarity with other appropriate packages e.g. GraphPad, SPSS, MLWin, nQuery, PASS, XML and a working knowledge of the principles of clinical trials, understanding of the principles of clinical trial design, monitoring and analysis. The candidate should ideally have a Masters Degree in Medical Statistics or a closely related area.

As a UK Clinical Research Collaboration registered Clinical Trials Unit, the unit receives NIHR CTU support funding. Core funding also comes from the University, and the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  The current programme of trials includes national and international multicentre trials on a range of health topics, such as oncology, cardiology, renal disease, diabetes. New areas of work being developed include early phase adaptive trial design, imaging analysis and general methodological research as issues arise within trials. Project funding is largely through various NIHR boards (such as HTA, EME, Programmes for Applied Health Research, and Research for Patient Benefit).

The unit is located within the Cambridge Biomedical Research Campus.

For informal inquiries please contact: Dr Simon Bond  simon.bond7@nhs.net

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.

This appointment requires a Research Passport application.

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Please ensure that you upload a covering letter and a CV in the Upload section of the online application. The covering letter should outline how you match the criteria for the post and why you are applying for this role. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

Please include details of your referees, including email address and phone number, one of which must be your most recent line manager.

The closing date for applications is: 11th June 2024

The interview date for the role is: To be confirmed

Please quote reference RC41843 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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