Clinical Programmer - Industrial Placement

Job description

  Job facts

The Biometrics team at Roche are looking for a high calibre sandwich student to join the Clinical Data Management department for a twelve month industrial placement working in the area of clinical trials. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain industry experience as a Clinical Programmer and work with a specialist technical team in our world class facility based in Welwyn Garden City.

As a Clinical Programmer, you will have an opportunity to work on clinical trials supporting data handling activities to help deliver treatments to patients. During the placement, you will learn about clinical trials and how they are conducted. You will also learn specifics of the disease area under study, treatments, trial design and therapeutic area of your designated project. Along with the scientific knowledge you also will also learn technical skills/tools which are used to capture, manage, process/transform and interpret the clinical data.

Main responsibilities:

• Collaborate with local and international study teams to achieve efficient solutions.

• Contribute to the timelines for programming deliverables at the clinical trial/study level.

• Effectively coordinates workload and communicates status of work.

• Responsible for study deliverables for one or more clinical trials/studies

o Creation and maintenance of clinical trial databases and related objects for the collection of patient data for clinical trials.

o Program derivations and conditions to control access to forms and fields.

o Review of data quality check specifications and programming data quality checks during the course of clinical trials/studies.

o Development of programs for extracting and transforming patient data into the appropriate data model to support reporting and analysis activities.

o Customizes standard report templates to produce study-specific reports for data cleaning and Medical Data Review.

• Support study closeout activities.

• Adherence to global standards and project related standards.

• Manages the handover and provides support to stakeholders or service providers on study-level tasks.

• Review and monitors study-level tasks performed by service providers as needed.

·  Who we are

Our UK Pharmaceutical head office is situated in Welwyn garden City, Hertfordshire, with beautiful country side surrounding the area. Supported by major motorways & airports as well as being a 30 minute train ride to London, access is easy. With over 1400 people occupying our site in Welwyn, you can expect opportunities in Early Development (pRED), Product Development (PD), Commercial (Rx) and of course our corporate function.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Desired profile

Who you are

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

Candidates must be professional, reliable, team-orientated and friendly.

An ongoing university education in a scientific or relevant technical degree (or similar) is required. Ideally the Clinical Programmer will have working experience in handling scientific data, and an interest or an aptitude to programming languages such as R, Python, SQL, C# or SAS

You will have strong planning and organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities, tasks or goals, developing and committing to realistic estimates and plans to complete required tasks. Be a logical thinker and/or an analytical mind, a passion for patient health/safety and would enjoy finding solutions for Roche patients around the world.

You will have good communication skills and be customer focused as you will be working in a global environment with interactions at all levels.

If you are proud of contributing and feel you have the commitment to teamwork and innovation that we are seeking, then Roche is the organisation for you.

Application Process:

Please ensure you include a CV and cover letter with your application. As part of your cover letter, Roche is keen to understand your motivation in applying for this position. You should, therefore, provide responses to the following questions:

• What is your key motivation for applying for this placement?

• What skills and experience will you bring to the role?

• What personal qualities will you bring to the role?

• What skills or abilities do you expect to develop through this role?

• What interests and activities do you have outside work and study?

Your cover letter should not exceed one page.

The application closing date is Friday 10th November 2017.

Please note that this position is an industrial placement for students who will be returning to their respective educational institutions following this 12 month period.

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