The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will be a data scientist or healthcare informatician, who can help build the next generation of AI & machine learning infrastructure to support the collection, sharing and accessing of healthcare data.
The position offers an exciting opportunity to develop the next generation of machine learning analytical tools that utilize genomic and clinical data to make personalized medicine a reality.
The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will have a technical background in using Open Source technology and will be responsible for the implementation and design of the platform ensuring it complies with the Trust Governance policy. Experience in the use, implementation, configuration, maintenance and optimisation of ElasticSearch, SQL Server DBA, and other database systems would be required.
The post holder will support the Clinical Analytics Team by ensuring and developing the clinical analytics services of CogStack. This includes the development of complex data mining processes, including machine learning, natural language processing, and large-scale data analytics to process clinical data held in the CogStack data lake. All for the purpose of clinical audit, service development and research. Ensuring data quality by identifying and resolving inconsistencies, missing values, and corrupted data as well as developing ETL pipelines and automating complex data extracts with clinical data requestors and researchers are also part of the role’s responsibilities. Further duties are to provide training and work collaboratively to develop customized reports and dashboards to improve clinical, operational, and financial performance. Troubleshooting technical issues, supporting and further developing tooling for data analysis. This includes contributing to management and optimisation of derived databases and registries by monitoring performance, optimizing queries, and automating processes.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Brawand Job title: AI & Bioinformatics Lead / CogStack Team Email address: dbrawand@nhs.net
