Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Jupyter Notebook

Job Description

We are recruiting a new Epidemiologist/Health Data Scientist to work in our OpenSAFELY platform, currently running across the full electronic health records of 59 million patients.

You will also be helping to lead a new way of delivering health data science. OpenSAFELY is a highly secure, modular, open source data analysis platform, combining best practice from both academia and the open source software community. You will initially conduct research evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on recovering patients and the health service.

The Bennett Institute is a mixed team of clinicians, software developers, policy experts, and traditional academic researchers, all pooling skills and knowledge. We have a strong track record of delivering high impact research in Nature, Lancet and BMJ; real-world impact on policy and clinical practice; and high impact services such as OpenSAFELY, OpenPrescribing and TrialsTracker.

Our mission is to create a modern, open, collaborative ecosystem for health research. We do this by shipping code, delivering papers, building capacity, and advocating for new ways of working. We aim to lead by example: recurring tasks are turned into packages and libraries; all code is shared openly for review and re-use; analyses are delivered in Jupyter notebooks for others to read, evaluate, re-purpose, and learn with.

We want to meet outstanding researchers who share this vision and have, or can rapidly develop, the skills needed to deliver it with us. We are particularly interested in researchers who will contribute to our open science community-building work, our codebase, our open teaching resources, or our policy work.

You will report to one of our Senior Researchers. You can read more at www.bennett.ox.ac.uk and OpenSAFELY.org.

We are actively seeking to increase our team’s diversity and welcome applications from those in under-represented groups.

You will be based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG as your normal place of work, but you will be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working with your line manager.

The position is offered full-time or part-time (minimum 28 hours per week – working pattern negotiable) and is funded by NHS England, until 31st October 2026 in the first instance.

For further information or discuss the post please contact Pete Stokes (pete.stokes@phc.ox.ac.uk )

Committed to equality and valuing diversity

You will be required to upload a CV and Supporting Statement as part of your online application. The Supporting Statement should include a cover letter and should also clearly describe how you meet each of the selection criteria listed in the job description. Click here for information and advice on writing an effective Supporting Statement.

The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on 24 April 2024