Biostatistician and Methodologist-Research and Sponsored Stu

Lakeland Regional Health is a leading medical center located in Central Florida. With a legacy spanning over a century, we have been dedicated to serving our community with excellence in healthcare. As the only Level 2 Trauma center for Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties, and the second busiest Emergency Department in the US, we are committed to providing high-quality care to our diverse patient population. Our facility is licensed for 910 beds and handles over 200,000 emergency room visits annually, along with 49,000 inpatient admissions, 21,000 surgical cases, 4,000 births, and 101,000 outpatient visits.

Lakeland Regional Health is currently seeking motivated individuals to join our team in various entry-level positions. Whether you're starting your career in healthcare or seeking new opportunities to make a difference, we have roles available across our primary and specialty clinics, urgent care centers, and upcoming standalone Emergency Department. With over 7,000 employees, Lakeland Regional Health offers a supportive work environment where you can thrive and grow professionally.

Active - Benefit Eligible and Accrues Time Off

This position will be responsible for the methodological and statistical facilitation of clinical research at LRH in the Department of Research and Sponsored Studies. This person shall ensure that the methodological approach and statistical analysis plans are designed appropriately for research studies at LRH. This position ensures that study designs and analyses are conducted according to currently accepted scientific practices and ensures that research outcomes at LRH are meaningful and acceptable to the wider scientific community and public. The person in this position must understand clinical research, pragmatic approaches to clinical data collection processes, and have the ability to communicate these complexities to novice and expert investigators, as well as administrators. Much of this position inherently is collaborative, however a successful candidate must demonstrate proficiency in their ability to complete their job duties with autonomy.

• Fosters an inclusive and engaged environment through teamwork and collaboration.
• Ensures patients and families have the best possible experiences across the continuum of care.
• Communicates appropriately with patients, families, team members, and our community in a manner that treasures all people as uniquely created.

• Behaves in a mindful manner focused on self, patient, visitor, and team safety.
• Demonstrates accountability and commitment to quality work.
• Participates actively in process improvement and adoption of standard work.

• Demonstrates responsible use of LRH's resources including people, finances, equipment and facilities.
• Knows and adheres to organizational and department policies and procedures.

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• Fosters an inclusive and engaged environment through teamwork and collaboration.
• Ensures patients and families have the best possible experiences across the continuum of care.
• Communicates appropriately with patients, families, team members, and our community in a manner that treasures all people as uniquely created.

• Behaves in a mindful manner focused on self, patient, visitor, and team safety.
• Demonstrates accountability and commitment to quality work.
• Participates actively in process improvement and adoption of standard work.

• Demonstrates responsible use of LRH's resources including people, finances, equipment and facilities.
• Knows and adheres to organizational and department policies and procedures.

• Serve as a resource to both new and experienced researchers in providing statistical and methodological expertise during the development of their research studies.
• Collaborates with principal investigator, faculty, other investigators, clinical research coordinators, and external government or industry representatives to affect significant decisions regarding the project, and to jointly achieve objectives and timelines.
• Documents analyses, creates summaries, and presents results in written and verbal form to requestors. Writes statistical text for study reports and publications. Prepares methods sections and analysis plans for incorporation in abstracts, manuscripts, grants.
• Identifies potential data problems from analytic queries and takes appropriate initiative to guide the process of resolution.
• Ensure research analysis is compliant with all LRH, regulatory, and sponsoring agency standards.
• Interpret the scope of work for projects and forecasts monthly hours expected to complete each project. Creates timelines for statistical project management for investigators.
• Collaborates with investigators on IRB, proposal development, and manuscript writing.
• Providing training and educational opportunities to investigators and research staff on statistical methods, research design, and regulatory requirements.
Assist the department in growing research at LRH through departmental organization and project prioritization from their unique statistical perspective.

Essential:

• Skillful with quantitative research designs (experimental, quasi-experimental, clinical). Statistical analysis experience is required.
• Experience in research protocol development and manuscript writing (project design, statistical analysis and sample size estimation/justification).
• Working knowledge of statistical software packages (SAS, SPSS, STATA, R-project, etc.) as well as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of ethical issues surrounding human subjects research.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - especially important in communicating complicated concepts in design and statistics to students and colleagues.
• Solid command of the English language is required.
• Prior role as a lead statistician on clinical trials and/or clinical research projects that have delivered the agreed-upon end products on time, and prior guidance of lower level or less experienced staff.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

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