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
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To work with the Cochrane team in Liverpool in preparing and updating Cochrane 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.
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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 teaching health
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.
Interests
Essential to be interested In developing
countries and infectious disease
problems.
Circumstances
Needs to be able to travel overseas.
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Committed to capacity development.
Needs to have right to work in the UK.