Job Description (909)

Post:Clinical Research Associate

Responsible to:Professor Paul Garner

Contract:Full-time for 4-months. Part-time (80% or more) considered

Summary of role: Extra-pulmonary TB Cochrane reviews

Background

Systematic reviews are central to many global and national guideline in health care. The Cochrane Collaboration has developed methods, produced a large number of systematic reviews, and has contributed to more transparent approaches to policy making. UK Aid has supported The Cochrane Collaboration in low and middle income countries through a grant to a Consortium. We are currently working on guidelines with the National Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and need someone to help complete some Cochrane and related systematic reviews.

Main tasks

  • To work with the Cochrane team in Liverpool in preparing and updatingCochrane reviews relevant to extra-pulmonary TB.
  • To complete a Cochrane review of length of treatment in tuberculous meningitis.
  • Must be able to work to tight deadlines.

You would work on a daily basis with dynamic and friendly Liverpool team. Your main points of contact will be: Hannah Ryan (research associate); Paul Garner (co-ordinating editor), Dave Sinclair (joint co-ordinating editor), and Anne-Marie Stephani (managing editor). Others you will work with include Vittoria Lutje (information retrieval specialist), Martha Richardson (statistician),Deirdre Walshe, (assistant editor) and Phil Hinds (editorial assistant). The Consortium is organised in the Liverpool office through Paula Waugh.You will gain a wide spectrum of experience and skills in current methods of research synthesis.

Person specifications

Criteria / Essential / Desirable
Education & Training / Medical degree. / Postgraduate qualification in epidemiology or related quantitative topic.
PhD.
Postgraduate teaching qualification.
Experience / Analysis of applied health services statistics or data for a dissertation or research publication demonstrating epidemiological and statistical ability.
Critical appraisal of medical literature at postgraduate level.
Excellent abilities to write in plain English.
Working in a multidisciplinary team. / Completed a systematic review of effects or in diagnostic test accuracy.
Author of a Cochrane review, and experienced in the software used.
Experience using GRADE.
Experienced in teachinghealth professionals at postgraduate level.
Track record in published research.
Skills & Abilities / Clear evidence of critical insight into priority policy questions in international health relevant to infectious diseases.
Good communicator.
Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently.
Computer literate with working knowledge of MS Office applications.
Excellent time management and organisational skills. / Demonstrable teaching skills to postgraduate students.
Experienced in editing and writing scientific articles.
Knowledge / Systematic reviews and RCT trials basics.
Special Aptitude / Initiative, and ability to organise own time.
Fastidious attention to detail.
Able to work flexibly.
Enthusiastic approach to work.
Ability to work collaborative. / Committed to capacity development.
Interests / Essential to be interested In developing countries and infectious disease problems.
Circumstances / Needs to be able to travel overseas. / Needs to have right to work in the UK.

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