Sarcoma Cancer Data Analyst (0.4 FTE)

About us

UCL is one of the UK’s premier research and teaching Universities (www.ucl.ac.uk) and has one of the largest Biomedical Faculties in Europe. UCL is both a Cancer Research UK Centre and an Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre providing key infrastructure for cancer research. The UCL Cancer Institute is a £40 million investment in central London based at University College London (UCL), one of the world’s top universities and a founding member of the Crick Institute. UCL Cancer Institute draws together over 300 scientists working together to develop world-class basic and translational cancer research. Through our associations with UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Institute has greater clinical links than any comparable centre in the UK and a significant impact on the delivery of clinical service to cancer patients. This concentration of excellence, a ccess to patients and significant recent investment of cancer treatment and research infrastructure makes UCL a global leader.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work on the most definitive study of sarcoma epidemiology to date, funded by Sarcoma UK, and Bone Cancer Research Trust in collaboration with NHS England / NDRS. The post will be based in a NHS England office in either London, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, or Manchester. Homeworking with travel to an office when necessary can also be considered.

The National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) is part of NHS England’s Transformation directorate. We are internationally recognised for our data curation and expertise in the analysis and interrogation of data to provide evidence for clinicians, patients, academics, industry and others. We work in partnership with other groups across NHS England and beyond, to identify, collect, collate and quality-assure detailed and rich population-level datasets for specific diseases and conditions. NDRS is an international leader in population-based disease registration services, real-world clinical data quality assurance, surveillance and monitoring. We also have significant skills in data science, analytics and complex data processing systems.

This project is funded until October 2029.

Applications should include a CV and a Cover Letter: In the Cover Letter please provide evidence of the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification part of the Job Description. (By including a Cover Letter, you can leave blank the 'Why you have applied for this role' field in the application form, which is limited in the number of characters it will allow.)

About you

Successful applicants must have a Degree level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline (information, statistics, health, or sciences with a significant analytical component) and experience of handling patient medical data.

Understanding of medical terminology, experience of handling sensitive personal data and patient medical data are desirable but not essential.

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