Epidemiologist

Paddington

1 year ago

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CK Group are recruiting for an Epidemiologist, to join a leading provider of advanced analytics research and technology solutions to the life sciences industry, working remotely, on a contract basis for 12 months.

Epidemiologist Rate:

£400-£500 per day PAYE (Inside IR35).

Role:

Leads design & implementation of epidemiology/ pharmacoepidemiology methods in real world studies & studies using real world data.
Authors of protocols, reports & other study documents to ensure quality & completeness of output.
Reviews & provides relevant input to statistical analysis plans & analysis output.
Reviews & provides input for tasks including CRF/eCRF development, form previews & other ad hoc project tasks (e.g., regulatory responses, slide deck development).

Your Background:

Master's Degree Graduate education in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health with concentration in epidemiology, pharmacy with concentration in epidemiology or relevant scientific field.
Ability to design, plan & conduct observational studies of comparative effectiveness & safety.
Previous medical writing experience is beneficial.
Ability to read outputs from SAS, R or other programming languages.

Company:

Our client offers research services and technology solutions in the life sciences industry. With just under 100,000 employees, the company has operations in over 90 countries worldwide. Our client’s ambitions involve optimising results of innovations using artificial intelligence. They believe in utilising data collected to the maximum rather than focussing on gathering lots of information: they use artificial intelligence to do this.

Location:

This role is based at our client’s site in Paddington, London.

Apply:

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference (Apply online only) in all correspondence.

Please note:

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

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