Healthcare Scientist Specialist - Diagnostic Evaluation

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Working within a skilled multidisciplinary team, alongside test developers and other collaborators, you will take the lead on HRC research projects, evaluating clinical tests or medical devices, contributing to project design and delivery. You will develop evaluation methods, contribute to methods development, and respond to challenges around evaluation and test implementation. 

You will have a PhD or Masters in a quantitative discipline (such as statistics or biomedical statistics) or in a relevant health science discipline plus advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in biomedical statistics or health economics. Including post-doctoral or post-masters experience in research evaluating clinical test or medical devices. You will have significant methodological experience and hands-on experience of managing, designing and delivering research projects. As well as experience in leading small groups and providing leadership in larger research teams.

• Working under the guidance of the HRC DTE Director and Co-Director, and with external expert advisors, lead in developing study methods and protocols for evaluating “close to market” clinical tests and medical devices.
• Work within multi-disciplinary teams and lead on patient engagement, study design, funding application, data management, data analysis, reporting, and dissemination aspects of projects evaluating clinical tests and medical devices.
• Participate in the planning of HRC DTE staff capacity.
• Lead on the continuous development, implementation, and improvement of quality assurance processes for data management and analysis.
• Initiate, undertake, and disseminate research into the development of methodologies for more efficient evaluation of clinical tests and medical devices.
• Represent the NIHR HRC DTE at a regional and national level where required.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of project management and HRC DTE administrative processes, for example by anticipating and pro-actively managing problems.
• Supervise undergraduate research projects and support or co-supervise postgraduate research students and research associates/assistants.
• To contribute leadership within the HRC DTE team on professional development activities within the HRC DTE (e.g. internal teaching, seminars, journal clubs, peer review of documents and scripts).
• Develop curricula, courses and training material, and coordinate and deliver the training in quantitative and qualitative methods used in evaluating clinical tests and medical devices.
• Liaise and work with other staff in the Translational and Clinical Research Institute and other institutions and faculties across the University, NuTH, and NIHR.
• Develop excellent working relationships with stakeholders, for example, within other University institutes, the Trust, the NICE external assessment centre and the local Health Innovation North-East North-Cumbria (HI-NENC), North East Innovation Laboratory, Diagnostics North East, the diagnostics and medical devices industry, clinicians and academic researchers, NIHR-funded research infrastructures, and (last but not least) public and patient involvement and engagement groups.
• To lead, develop training material, and deliver specialist training sessions to researchers / research-related staff on evaluation methods such as workflow analysis, care pathway mapping, biomedical statistics, and health economics.
• To contribute to the development of evaluation research methods (e.g. early economic modelling), evaluation challenges (e.g. when the reference standard is imperfect), and test implementation (e.g. clinical decision aids).
• To contribute leadership within the HRC DTE team on professional development activities within the HRC DTE (e.g. internal teaching, seminars, journal clubs).