Lead Statistician | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Lead Statistician to Join our Clinical Trials Unit. This role offers an exciting opportunity to Lead 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.

The post holder will have primary responsibility for supporting the Clinical Trials Unit Manager (Statistics & Methodology) in managing the statistical service provided to the staff across the Trust by the Research Data Management & Statistics Unit, ensuring the provision of expert support and advice relating to the full range of statistical and analytical aspects of the Trust's clinical research and audit programmes. This will require management and distribution of the statisticians work load, representing the team at meetings, promoting the use of statistical concepts across the organisation and in collaboration with the GCP Team, developing standard operating procedures for statistical services that are compliant with the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 (as amended).

In addition, if the post holder has experience in trials methodology they would be encouraged to develop the use of new and innovative methodologies in clinical trial design and analysis as required., · To maintain full working knowledge of the in-house software used to collect and analyse clinical research data.

· 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 abreast of developments.

· To gain a working knowledge of the RMH EPR in order to liaise with users and analyse data where necessary.

· 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.

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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.