Research Fellow - Melbourne, Australia - Deakin University

Deakin University

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6 days ago

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Job no: 538948

Work type:
Full-time

Location:
Flexible, Melbourne - Burwood, Other - Interstate

Categories:
Health

Flexible location
Fulltime Fixed term until June positions)
Level B $104,619 $123, % Superannuation

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus.

We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world's universities.

Deakin Health Technology Assessment (DHTA) is a major research stream within Deakin Health Economics (DHE) at Deakin's Burwood campus. This document details the position description for Research Fellow (Level B).

The Research Fellow (Level B) will primarily conduct research under supervision in the area of Health Technology Assessment.

DHTA is one of several university-based teams nominated as 'independent evaluators' for the Commonwealth government, to assist the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) through its Economic Sub-Committee (ESC) in their evaluation of submissions from the pharmaceutical industry to gain listing for drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

DHTA also undertakes evaluations of medical procedures and diagnostic tests considered by the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) that are seeking subsidy on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).

The appointee will contribute to evaluations conducted for both PBAC and MSAC and other HTA assessments.

DHE is located within the Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) in the Faculty of Health.

In addition to line management, all research staff within the IHT report to the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health) via the Head of DHE, Director of IHT and Head of School.

The Research Fellow (Level B) is expected to contribute towards the research effort of the University and conduct research independently and / or team research within the field of Health Technology Assessment.

The Research Fellow (Level B) will carry out activities to develop his or her research expertise relevant to health technology assessment, in particular, to prepare timely, accurate and concise health technology assessments under supervision either as a member of a team, or independently (where appropriate), to achieve the objectives of DHE.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Research and Innovation_
Effectively conduct health technology assessments and associated tasks, including critical appraisal of the clinical evidence, economic evaluation and financial (budgetary) implications
Remain uptodate and contributing to current literature and methods relevant to the area of expertise
Contribute to teaching in relation to his/her research project(s) and / or area of expertise
Initiate, design and conduct and may lead productive, highquality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs
Engage collaboratively to develop novel and highquality research activities
Widely communicate outputs to discipline(s) and the community
Ensure impact of academic activity in the field and the community
Build national reputation, based on growing, focused body of work recognised for quality, excellence and impact
Initiate, design, conducts and may lead intra

- and inter-disciplinary research collaborations, to enable major breakthroughs in knowledge and understanding and solutions to complex problems

Initiate, design, conduct and may lead in development of industry partnerships and collaboration to enable major breakthroughs, innovative solutions for future translation into real world impact
Build track record of timely delivery of outcomes for industry partners
Supervise honours and/or HDR students with timely completions and productive, high quality outcomes
Provide effective mentoring to HDR students to support professional and career development and employability
Attend meetings associated with the research project(s) with which the researcher is involved or other meetings as appropriate
Adopt and promote a culture of research excellence, innovation and impact
Support industry partnerships that provide HDRs with industry experience

Key selection criteria for this role:

Qualifications and experience
Essential_
Postgraduate qualifications (a PhD or equivalent or Masters) in health economics and/or health technology assessment, or other relevant equivalent qualifications for the conduct of health technology assessment.
Demonstrated experience in analysing and critically appraising clinical evidence, economic evaluations and assessments of financial (budgetary) implications.
At least two years' experience with the independent assessment or development of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) or Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) submissio