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About the Role
Our Future Health is seeking a Senior Scientist – Clinical Research to support the scientific review and feasibility assessment of external research studies. This role involves interpreting eligibility criteria, assessing data suitability, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to provide scientifically robust recommendations for participant recruitment.
Responsibilities
- Reviewing clinical research applications and identifying key scientific and operational feasibility questions
- Interpreting phenotype definitions, eligibility criteria and researcher data requirements across diverse disease areas
- Assessing the suitability and availability of phenotype, genotype and linked health data to support recruitment strategies
- Coordinating multidisciplinary feasibility input from analytical, scientific and operational teams
- Producing concise, high-quality scientific summaries, feasibility reports, caveats and recommendations
- Responding to researcher queries relating to eligibility definitions, coding systems, participant selection and study feasibility
- Supporting the development of cohort depletion methodologies and participant recontact principles
- Contributing to frameworks for sustainable and transparent clinical research recruitment
- Participating in researcher and stakeholder discussions to explain feasibility findings and study limitations
- Supporting process improvement, documentation standards and scalable scientific review practices
- Contributing to exploratory phenotype mapping work using clinical coding systems such as SNOMED CT and ICD-10
Requirements
- PhD (or equivalent research experience) in epidemiology, clinical research, biomedical sciences, public health, genomics, health data science, statistics or a related discipline
- Experience working with clinical, epidemiological or population health research data
- Strong understanding of study design, participant eligibility, feasibility assessment and recruitment processes
- Experience working with phenotype definitions, linked health records, participant-reported data or large-scale research datasets
- Ability to critically evaluate study applications and translate complex requirements into structured feasibility outputs
- Excellent written communication skills, including preparation of scientific summaries, caveats and recommendations
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver accurate outputs to short timelines
- Confidence working collaboratively across multidisciplinary scientific and operational teams
- Understanding of research governance, ethics, data protection and participant confidentiality in health research
Skills
- Epidemiology
- Clinical research
- Health data science
- Operational delivery
- Phenotype definitions
- Eligibility criteria interpretation
- Feasibility assessment
- Genotype data
- Health record data
- SNOMED CT
- ICD-10
- Analytical problem-solving
- Scientific communication
- Collaboration
- Research governance
- Data protection
- Participant confidentiality
Location
- Central London, Holborn
Work Type
- Flexible working
- Remote working
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- PhD or equivalent research experience
Salary/Compensations
- From £60,000
Benefits
- Generous Pension Scheme – employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Home & Tech Savings
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
- Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme
About the Company
- Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to transform the future of healthcare.
- Millions of people across the UK live with conditions such as cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease.
- By bringing together 5 million volunteers across the UK, Our Future Health is creating one of the most detailed pictures of human health ever assembled.
Equal Opportunity
- At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process.
- We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
- If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk