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Make Every Data Point Count: Medical Scientist Position

Join Southern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Medical Scientist specialising in Health Data Research, where you'll analyse complex healthcare datasets to drive groundbreaking medical discoveries that directly improve patient outcomes. This exciting part-time contract position at Flinders Medical Centre, offering the perfect opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology alongside leading medical professionals. Make a real difference in South Australian healthcare while advancing your expertise in medical data research within our collaborative, world-class facility.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Head of Department, this role is responsible for conducting the proposed analyses using large-scale data under supervision from the Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator and additional investigators from Flinders University. The incumbent’s focus areas will be in familiarisation with mainstream statistical packages (e.g., R, SAS, Stata), data cleaning and preparation, statistical and machine learning techniques (e.g., regression, clustering analysis)

Duties for the role will include:

• The main responsibilities will involve data cleaning and preparation of datasets from multiple sources for the analysis, applying statistical and machine learning techniques (e.g., logistic regression, cluster, network analysis) required for this research project,
• Undertaking data analyses of a complex nature,
• Reporting and interpretation of research project,
• Providing scientific and technical expertise to the development and conduct of research methods,
• Contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers

About you:

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent in related discipline (e.g., epidemiology, statistics),
• High level of organisation skills,
• High level of communication skills,
• Excellent knowledge of mainstream statistical packages,
• Experience with working on large datasets,
• Experience with health data,
• Experience in epidemiology and/or pharmacoepidemiology studies involving large datasets,
• Experience with research management of research projects,
• Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g., epidemiology, public health, biostatistics)

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Huah Shin Ng, Medical Scientist, (08) 8201 2588, HuahShin.Ng@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Tuesday 19 August 2025

Attachments:

• 912338 MES3 - Medical Scientist - Health Data Research- Role Description
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• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 912338