"Senior Research Fellow"

About the role

This post offers an excellent career development opportunity for a Researcher with significant experience in quantitative analysis, epidemiology, and health data science, and an interest in conducting research to inform practice for children and young people with or at risk of blinding disorders. The post-holder will be joining the CHOIR (Childhood Ocular Inflammation Research, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/choir-lab) team. The CHOIR team conduct Wellcome Trust funded projects which share the primary aim of leveraging routinely collected clinical data, administrative datasets, patient generated data and imaging to improve our understanding of childhood onset blinding disorders and associated multi-system disease. The research fellow will lead on electronic health record (EHR) data extraction and transformation, and develop linked clinical, education and administrative datasets. They will also support the development of a national disease registry, and the development of common data models for childhood onset blinding eye disorders. This role will include general research support duties, such as research governance, communications, data management, and scientific dissemination. They will be expected to work independently and as part of a team, in a timely manner. Training will be provided to support personal development. The post will require the post-holder to be on site for a minimum of two days a week. The post holder will report to the study CI and line manager (Dr Ameenat Lola Solebo, https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/5172-lola-solebo). Lola is a Wellcome funded Clinician Scientist within PPP, and a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Her work investigates the determinants of outcome for children with eye disease, and how best to translate these findings into changes in practice and policy. The post is based within the Population Policy and Practice Programme (PPP) at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCLGOSICH). The salary offered is £54,931 - £59,571 per annum and is funded until Feb 2029 in the first instance.

About you

The post holder will • Be committed to excellence in research culture: equity, diversity and inclusion, and open science • Be committed to patient-centred research Hold a PhD in epidemiology, health informatics, medical statistics, or a related discipline • Have experience with large-scale health datasets, including EHRs, administrative data and registry data • Be proficient in use of database management and statistical analysis software (e.g. STATA and R) • Have experience with data governance, ethics and information security protocols in the UK • Have experience working with the OMOP Common Data Model or SNOMED-CT terminology • Be able to conduct high quality research in eye or child health related subject • Have excellent administrative skills, and the ability to organise and prioritise workload • Have excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills • Be able to work independently and as part of a team to agreed deadlines Applicants will need to submit a cover letter

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