About the role

You will ensure health research is based on accurate and complete data by providing and supporting tools for data capture, data quality monitoring and study management reports. This entails translating data requirements of study protocols into a specification for data collection tools (such as REDCap) and other services, with estimates of the amount of time needed to complete the work. Although clinical knowledge is not a requirement, it is expected that you will be comfortable working with all types of health data, incorporating many types of clinical terms and coding systems. You will also be expected to ensure that tools are adequately tested and adhere to BRC, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and NHS standards of security, governance and data quality, and are fully documented. Additionally, you may be required to provide data management support to study teams, including: data imports, exports, manipulation, transformation, cleansing and reporting.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community.

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

The NIHR Leicester BRC is a partnership between the University of Leicester, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Loughborough University and the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group. It has been funded £26.1 million from December 2022 to November 2027 to carry out pioneering research into medical advancements into illnesses linked to respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease and the consequences of inactivity will continue to push boundaries of knowledge in clinical medicine. Three new speciality areas have joined the NIHR Leicester BRC for the first time: Personalised cancer prevention and treatment, Environment – looking at how the environment impacts on long term health conditions - and Using data to better understand multiple long term health conditions and factors specific to the health of ethnic minority populations. In addition, the respiratory speciality is joined by experts in infectious diseases.

Our overall purpose is to translate scientific breakthroughs in these areas into diagnostic tests, preventions and life-saving treatments for our patients. We do this by creating a collaborative workspace that allows scientists and clinicians to share their findings and deliver research that is relevant to both patients and the professionals who treat them. At Leicester BRC, we are committed to working with all experts, and the patient is the most important expert of all. A large group of local people interested in our work help us plan and deliver our research with insight into the experience of living with illness.

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Dr Robert Free on rob.free@leicester.ac.uk

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