Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist on OpenSAFELY in the Bennett Institute

OverviewApplications are invited for an epidemiologist, statistician or health data scientist to work in our OpenSAFELY platform, deployed across the full electronic health records of 55 million patients.

The successful applicant will help to lead a new approach to 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.

Responsibilities

Building tools and dashboards to gain insights from routinely-collected health data

Innovating processes and tools for statistical disclosure control of outputs released from OpenSAFELY

Developing, maintaining, and documenting reproducible analytic pipelines for evaluating trends and variation in clinical practice

Producing automated data quality checks and data validity reports

Co-piloting external OpenSAFELY users

OpenSAFELY and related projectsThere are several ongoing research projects within the Bennett Institute using OpenSAFELY. You will have the opportunity to contribute to these projects.

NIHR-funded research to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines for respiratory viruses

Wellcome supported NHS Talking Therapies research

NIHR-funded Winter pressures and service delivery planning

NHS England’s Primary Care and Medicines Analytics Unit

Application and inquiriesIf you have a specific interest in working in any of these research areas, please indicate this in your cover letter, highlighting any relevant experience. We’re happy to answer any questions about the projects prior to applying.

About the Bennett InstituteThe Bennett Institute is a mixed team of clinicians, software developers, policy experts, data scientists, and 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.

Mission and approachOur 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 re-executable notebooks for others to read, evaluate, re-purpose, and learn with.

Collaboration and fitWe 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.

Reporting and contact informationYou will report to one of our Research team leads. You can read more at the Bennett Institute site and OpenSAFELY site.

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 funded by the Wellcome Trust, for a duration of two years in the first instance.

For further information or to discuss the post please contact William Hulme (william.hulme@phc.ox.ac.uk).

“Committed to equality and valuing diversity”

Key dates and salaryThe closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Friday 3 October 2025.

Interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing Monday 20 October 2025.

Salary: £39,424 to £47,779. Research Grade 7 with a discretionary range to £53,483 per annum ..... full job details .....