Position Details

Institute of Applied Health Research

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £31,396 to £33,966 with potential progression once in post to £38,205

Grade 6

Full Time, Fixed Term contract for 12 months

Closing date: 2 January 2024

Please note, one person is to be recruited from this advert or from the Research Fellow role (102920/3656)

Background

This one-year post provides a unique opportunity to deliver research in the area of health economics to quantify the primary health care resource use and costs associated with musculoskeletal pain in children and adolescents.

CAM-PAIN is a 4-year project funded by the National Institute for Applied Research (NIHR) Programme Grants for Applied Health Research funding stream and is led by the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Keele University. The health economics component is led by the Health Economics Unit at the University of Birmingham. This work builds on a long-standing collaboration between the two universities.

The overall project aim is to determine the longer-term outcomes of child/adolescent musculoskeletal pain in primary care by describing overall prognosis, identifying prognostic factors, and estimating health service costs of children/adolescents presenting with new musculoskeletal pain. The project uses data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) dataset, a national UK electronic health record database of anonymised routinely recorded, longitudinal, primary care information. The health economics component will use the dataset to calculate average resource use, apply unit costs and calculate average healthcare costs and the overall NHS cost burden. Statistical analysis will also explore factors associated with higher costs, for example, site of the pain.

Role Summary

This one-year role (100% FTE) will be responsible for assisting the lead health economist with designing, analysing and disseminating the health economics component of the CAM-PAIN project. The post-holder will be responsible for:

Conducting a targeted literature review to put the work into context with existing literature
Undertaking a detailed analysis of the records of children/adolescents with musculoskeletal pain from the CPRD dataset, including estimating health care resource use, sourcing and applying unit costs and calculating average costs and overall NHS burden.
Conducting multivariable regression analysis using generalised linear modelling to explore covariates associated with higher costs.
Contributing to dissemination of the CAM-PAIN project including writing papers, documents, reports and others, and working directly with the CAM-PAIN team in Keele.

Main Duties

Carry out a targeted literature review
Become familiar with using the CPRD database
Analyse research data as directed
Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters
Develop or adapt techniques, models and methods
Provide guidance as required to support staff and any students who may be assisting with research
Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
Carry out administrative tasks related directly to the delivery of the research

Person Specification

A Masters degree in Health Economics or a related subject or equivalent professional success and achievement
Evidence of good quantitative skills for health economic analysis
Practical experience of statistical analysis of data including regression analysis
Experience of dealing with a large datasets
Familiarity with STATA
Good writing skills
Good knowledge of health economics and research methods and techniques
Ability to work to fixed deadlines
Ability to work as a member of a team
Ability to communicate complex information effectively
Good communication skills and confidence to deal with a variety of senior researchers and external project partners at project meetings and dissemination events
Ability to access and organise resources successfully

Further particulars can be found here

Informal enquiries to Professor Sue Jowett s.jowett@bham.ac.uk

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