Senior Scientist - Clinical Research
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Senior Scientist - Clinical Research at Our Future Health: London, United Kingdom; Hybrid; Full time; Senior; Healthcare & Science. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: London, United Kingdom, Hybrid
- Role classification: Healthcare & Science, Full time, Senior
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-31.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to transform the future of healthcare. Today, millions of people across the UK live with conditions such as cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease. By bringing together 5 million volunteers from across the UK, Our Future Health is creating one of the most detailed pictures of human health ever assembled.
We are looking for a scientifically rigorous and detail-oriented Senior Scientist to help shape the future of clinical research recruitment using rich phenotype, genotype and health record data at unprecedented scale.
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys translating complex scientific questions into practical, evidence-based feasibility assessments and who thrives working at the intersection of epidemiology, clinical research, health data science and operational delivery.
As Senior Scientist – Clinical Research, you will play a central role in supporting the scientific review and feasibility assessment of external research studies seeking to recruit participants through the Our Future Health Clinical Research Recruitment Service.
Working closely with the Lead Scientist – Clinical Research, you will review study applications, interpret eligibility criteria and assess whether proposed studies can be supported using the Our Future Health resource. You will collaborate with epidemiologists, statisticians, genetic analysts and operational teams to evaluate phenotype and genotype-driven recruitment approaches and provide scientifically robust feasibility recommendations.
You will also contribute to the development of frameworks for assessing cohort depletion and participant recontact sustainability; helping ensure that recruitment activity is scientifically defensible, transparent and responsible over the long term.
This role would suit someone who enjoys analytical problem-solving, careful interpretation of research protocols and producing clear, well-reasoned scientific outputs in a fast-moving environment.
What you will be doing:
- Reviewing clinical research applications and identifying key scientific and operational feasibility questions
- Interpreting phenotype definitions, eligibility criteria and researcher data requirements across diverse disease areas
- Assessing the suitability and availability of phenotype, genotype and linked health data to support recruitment strategies
- Coordinating multidisciplinary feasibility input from analytical, scientific and operational teams
- Producing concise, high-quality scientific summaries, feasibility reports, caveats and recommendations
- Responding to researcher queries relating to eligibility definitions, coding systems, participant selection and study feasibility
- Supporting the development of cohort depletion methodologies and participant recontact principles
- Contributing to frameworks for sustainable and transparent clinical research recruitment
- Participating in researcher and stakeholder discussions to explain feasibility findings and study limitations
- Supporting process improvement, documentation standards and scalable scientific review practices
- Contributing to exploratory phenotype mapping work using clinical coding systems such as SNOMED CT and ICD-10