IR Senior Researcher

The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.

We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Researcher to join our Clinical Practice Research Datalink function in the Safety and Surveillance group.

Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: responsible for implementing the innovative use of real world pseudonymised patient data across the range of CPRD's interventional research services.  Responsibilities include defining the strategy and implementing standard methods and algorithmic approaches to data capture, transformation and export; undertaking complex data management tasks for interventional research studies and services; creating standard libraries of clinical concepts for use and re-use in studies and implementation within a technological service capability platform; and providing advice to clients in the application of CPRD data in clinical research.

The successful candidate will be educated to PhD level or equivalent experience in epidemiology, medical statistics or a related discipline.

• Be proficient at using epidemiological and statistical techniques with a solid understanding of research study design.
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills with experience in presenting research, writing study protocols, and drafting strategic papers and manuscripts for publication.
• Actively build and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on shared objectives
• Ensure delivery of timely quality outcomes, through providing the right resources to do the job, reviewing and adjusting performance expectations and rewarding success.

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