Department for Health and Ageing

Joining the friendly staff at SA Health, you will provide guidance to surveillance activities in cancer and pregnancy. In this role you will also develop projections and estimates of future health events and health service requirements generally. You will design research protocols and analytic strategies, and will assess the evidence base for state and national health programs.

This unique and varied consultancy role presents a great opportunity for a creative, meaningful contribution as a member of a multidisciplinary team. SA Health is a dedicated, inspirational, and professional group of over 30,000 people contributing to the wellbeing of South Australians.

To be successful in this role you will have an appropriate degree or equivalent qualification in mathematics/statistics and/or health sciences that leads to recognition as a statistician, biostatistician or quantitative epidemiologist. With broad research and report writing experience you will be highly skilled in a wide range of descriptive and analytic statistical techniques and software tools. Your ability to explain in technical and non-technical terms the relative strengths and weaknesses of alternative statistical approaches, including various types of modelling, will make you the ideal candidate for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Department of Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) Criminal History Check.

Applications close: 20 October 2014

Contact:
Ron Somers
Director, Epidemiology
08 8226 6361
ron.somers@health.sa.gov.au