Data Analyst

Data Analyst
Grade 7: £40,247 to £47,874 per annum
CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed Term: available from 1st January 2025 to 31st July 2026

The Centre for Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a motivated individual to become a part of the Time Critical Precision Medicine for Acute Critical Illness Using Treatable Trait Principles (TRAITS) trial team. The investigator team aims to establish a data-enabled platform across the UK to facilitate efficient trial design.

The Opportunity:

This exciting opportunity will require the postholder to create data capture pipelines combined with linkage to routine data sources across the UK. The post holder will work with large amounts of highly complex confidential electronic health data, including high dimensional data from clinical information systems as well as linked data from routine data source held in NHS Scotland.

They will provide analytical expertise to the TRAITS team and liaise with trial sites to provide advice and support to establish and develop data pipelines. They will identify gaps in information, conduct analyses to interrogate and resolve issues and challenges with these real world datasets, combining information from different data sources. They will also be responsible for processing, maintaining and documenting the datasets, analytic approaches and algorithms.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Annemarie Docherty, Wellcome Career Development Fellow and an Honorary Consultant in Critical Care (annemarie.docherty@ed.ac.uk).

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• A good degree and higher degree in a scientific or numerate subject, or able to demonstrate relevant and equivalent experience


• Experience in writing complex queries to interrogate databases (e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle) using one or more statistical software packages 


• The ability to extract data and a good understanding of transferring and transforming data, for analysis using different statistical packages


• Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team and excellent written and oral English language communication skills


• Understanding and/or experience of health records and health informatics, knowledge of health record coding systems and the principles of security and confidentiality of personal data 

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As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

• A competitive salary.


• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 


• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.


• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits. 

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 29 November 2024.

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