Research Associate

Job description

The ideal candidate will play an integral role in providing biostatistical and data analytical expertise for projects led by Professor Santosh who heads the Centre for Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology and Rare Diseases (CIPPRD) at the Maudsley Hospital, London, and the Centre for Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology (CIPP) Rett Centre at King’s College London.   

The integrated clinical and research CIPPRD/CIPP Rett Centre team manages young people aged 2 years or over with complex treatment-resistant neuropsychiatric disorders. The clinical and research team has also developed the world’s first centre for personalised medicine in Rett syndrome (a debilitating childhood neurodevelopmental disorder) that provides access to clinical trials. 

We are looking for an ambitious research associate/data scientist who can perform data management and data analysis work to high standards, manage databases and have excellent statistical analysis skills and can develop statistical solutions for analysis of clinical and research datasets and how they can be used to improve patient outcomes. The applicant should also be able to support clinical projects that require data analysis for members of the clinical and research teams.  

This post will be a key part of a team that interfaces between both clinical and applied clinical research in child and adolescent psychiatry, and complex neurodevelopmental disorders. Specifically, the role will involve providing biostatistical support such as real-time analytical AI to help us harness clinical data faster for prediction, risk stratification, innovation and improving clinical outcomes. This post would suit someone who has an interest in applied clinical research and data analysis. 

The postholder must have independent critical thinking, flexibility, and good teamwork. The successful candidate will also benefit from being able to work with a multi-dimensional team involving Consultants, Speciality Doctors, Clinical Psychologists and other Data and Computational Analysts. 

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 12 months in the first instance. 

This is a full-time post – 1.0% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

• Supporting members of the clinical & research team with higher order biostatistics and data analytics against deliverables in discussion with Professor Santosh. This also involves being able to manage databases for different projects and to co-ordinate different aspects of work to meet deadlines. 
• Be able to engage in proactive discussions with members of the clinical and research team on the analysis strategy and be responsible for development of statistical analysis plans for manuscripts in preparation. 
• Be able to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to accurately document statistical analysis plans, methods and analyses undertaken. 
• Work closely with other members of the clinical and research teams to understand and support cross-functional projects. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria 

Desirable criteria 

Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.