Oslo Hospital Services, Department of Research Support for Clinical Trials, CTU, Oslo University Hospital HF
The Oslo University Hospital (OUH) is one of the largest hospitals in Scandinavia. More than 50% of all biomedical research in Norway is published by researchers affiliated with OUH. Research undertaken covers basic, translational and clinical research. This is the result of the hospitals research strategy and its extensive international network cooperation, together with the Medical Faculty of University of Oslo. In this way, OUH complies with its role as national reference hospital, responsible for introducing and developing new disease preventing strategies, new diagnostic methods, new treatments and follow-up plans.
Regional Research Support (FST) (https://forskerstotte.no/) is part of the Oslo Hospital Services division at Oslo University Hospital. The unit delivers services and advice to research groups and employees at Oslo University Hospital and other hospitals that are part of the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. FST consist of the following 5 departments; Administrative Research Support, Oslo Center for Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Clinical Trials Unit, Biobank and Health Registry Support and Comparative Medicine. FST has approximately 120 employees and collaborates closely with a broad range of academic areas and dicliplines within the University of Oslo.
Are you interested in improving patient treatment?
The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) has a broad clinical research skills base and currently employs 34 staff. The CTU is today involved in 200+ clinical trials. We offer advising, courses and operational services to a wide spectrum of clinical trials within the health region. The CTU collaborates closely with Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) to support our growing portfolio of clinical trials and research within this field. The CTU has received a grant from the European Commission to co-lead the work in developing and designing the next generation COVID-19 trials in Europe, together with the French INSERM institute.
The competent candidate will be eager to build experience in clinical trials, join our cross-disciplinary teams delivering outstanding clinical trials and contribute to developing further the role of the statistician in such teams. The ideal candidate is keen to develop procedures and methodology, has already some experience from clinical research and has strong programming skills. We aim at increasing the clinical trials research activity on statistics in CTU, opening academic possibilities for PhD level CTU statisticians. You will also have the opportunity to work in other areas of biostatistics together with colleagues from other units in the health sector and from OCBE.
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Start-up by agreement.
Oslo University Hospital is a workplace with great diversity. We believe this is a key quality to perform the tasks required of us. Therefore, we pursue diversity also among our job applicants and encourage everyone to apply regardless of who you are and what background you have.
01.06.2023
Oslo universitetssykehus HF
Oslo
Researcher/Statistician
Full-time
Regular
100
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Duties and responsibilities
- Statistical advising to research groups requesting support from the CTU
- Taking the role as study statistician independently or in a CTU based team, working with all parts of clinical trials, from early design through analyses to the publication
- Contribute to research and development of new statistical methodology for clinical trials in collaboration with the OCBE Clinical Trials research group and other research teams internationally
- Contribute to developing the CTU procedures and methodology
- Teach statistics in CTU training courses
- Scientific collaboration with clinical research staff at other institutions locally, nationally and internationally
- Other research projects, in collaboration with OCBE or with others
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Acquire research funding to support own research if so desired
Qualifications
- An MSc in statistics is required, and the ideal candidate has a PhD in statistics
- Experience from statistical analysis and reporting in R, Stata or SAS is required
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Candidates with experience from working with clinical trials will be preferred
- Experience from statistical advising within clinical research is preferred
- Knowledge of regulatory statistics from eg. pharmaceutical industry is preferred
- Experience from applying statistics in medical research is preferred
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A track record of research and development of methodology for clinical trials is preferred
- Applicants must be able to work in a Norwegian speaking environment. Excellent English language skills is required
Personal qualities
For us it is important that you:
- Have the ability to collaborate across different professional environments
- Thrives in working in a large and complex organization
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Thrives in the team-work setting
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Like to share experience and learn from others
- Are a good communicator
- Take initiative and deliver tasks as agreed
- Like to work independently when required
- Are curious, energetic and have attention to details
We can offer
- A workplace characterized by trust, openness and respect
- A safe workplace with good colleague support
- A journey towards a new and modern hospital
- As a new employee of OUS, you will be part of a welcome program
- You become part of an important social mission
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Salaries for researchers at OUH are competitive
- Salary will depend on qualifications and seniority
- A dynamic and engaging work environment
- Membership in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
- Full public health insurance
- Attractive welfare benefits
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