Clinical Bioinformatician

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners. A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London. For now, the job you are applying for will be based at one of our hospital sites however, from 1 April 2024 our people and services will start to move to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests. Please do ask your recruiting manager if you wish to find out more.

The post holder will be working within a team of bioinformaticians to support Synnovis Infectious Diseases services based across Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Foundation Trusts. This role will be a mix of acting as duty bioinformatician, development work and data analysis. The duty bioinformatician ensures the smooth operational delivery of the service and answers daily issues raised by the scientific teams. Development work includes working on new and updating existing pipelines, database projects, evaluations of applications or infrastructure planning.  Supporting scientific and clinical teams is also an important part of the role, requiring strong data analysis and presentation skills. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring quality and validation documentation for the clinical pipelines.It is likely that the majority of the role will be supporting the development of the service, but individuals will need to cover all aspects of the role. Having a broad set of programming skills and IT knowledge will be required. They will be responsible for ensuring that all work is completed to a high standard within defined timelines. The post holder will be expected to work efficiently as part of the bioinformatics team and as a supportive team member.

The post holder will work within the multidisciplinary Transformative team, which includes research scientists, biomedical scientists, and clinicians. The post holder will communicate progress across the multidisciplinary team.

Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London.

The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services.

The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Foundation Trust is a major emergency and specialist teaching Trust which has all the specialties associated with a fascinating and career defining case load including: Women’s Services, Fetal Medicine, Haematology, Oncology, Transplantation, Intensive Care Unit including the Severe Respiratory Failure and High Consequence Infectious Disease units, and is also home to the Evelina Children’s Hospital and the Cancer Centre on the Guy’s site.

You will be close to the vibrant Borough Market and the South Bank, which are exceptional London locations; perfect places to work and relax next to such iconic venues as Big Ben, The London Eye and The Shard!