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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Data Analyst
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust Education Centre
- Address
- 75-79 York Rd
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7NJ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 24 months (The posts are fixed term ending October 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administration
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Data Analyst within the AI, Data & Digital Innovation function of the Chief Medical Officer’s Office (CMO). The role is part of a team of data science, technology, and digital transformation experts within the King Health Partners (KHP) group.
The team works on externally funded programmes that develop data platforms and AI to enhance patient diagnosis and treatment, improve workflows, and drive healthcare research. This includes the London Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value-Based Healthcare, a consortium led by Guy’s & St Thomas’, King’s College London, and King’s College Hospital, in partnership with multiple NHS Trusts and universities.
You will have the opportunity to apply NLP technology to real-world healthcare research, developing advanced skills in data science. Using CogStack and the OMOP data model, you will surface clinical data from electronic health records, optimising analytics workflows to support both research and administrative use cases.
The role involves collaborating with clinicians and researchers, conducting statistical analyses, preparing research protocols, and contributing to the development of innovative data science solutions for healthcare research challenges. You will play a key role in unlocking the potential of electronic health records to advance medical research and improve patient care.
This post is fixed term until October 2026.
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- Manage all aspects of data collection, analysis, insights, and visualisations to support project and programme delivery.
- Collaborate with clinicians and researchers to develop research protocols and inform decision-making processes.
- Use data analysis to identify patient cohorts, support service evaluations, and enhance research projects.
- Query and analyse data using the OMOP data model within the CogStack platform, executing research queries and generating reports.
- Prepare and maintain high-quality datasets, ensuring consistency and accuracy for research and operational use.
- Conduct statistical analyses on extracted data and create visualisations for presentations and reports.
- Become an expert in the Trust’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and other clinical records systems to provide insights, analysis, and data visualisation.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams across clinical and academic settings to optimise existing analytics workflows.
- Apply NLP techniques to extract information from unstructured clinical text, supporting research and administrative needs.
- Assist in preparing research protocols, ethics applications, and maintaining documentation of data extraction and analysis processes.
- Demonstrate our team's analytical capabilities to stakeholders and contribute to the development of innovative data science solutions for healthcare research challenges.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
As part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people and women from London to South East England and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.
Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life.
Right in the heart of vibrant London, we benefit from excellent transport links, we have staff working here from the local areas, spanning across London, and further afield into the home counties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding the main duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Advanced degree qualification in health informatics / health data science / healthcare related, or medical degree with equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- PhD in healthcare related field
- Medical degree or clinical experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Strong track record of effective written and spoken communication, including in presentations, across all levels of seniority and technical ability.
- Experience in technical roles in health data engineering and health data analytics
- Extensive technical understanding of NHS data, including from structured and multi- modal sources.
- Strong background in health informatics, including design of information solutions and data models.
- Highly developed understanding of clinical care pathways and clinical pain-points. Able to communicate effectively with clinical teams.
- Experience of working in a product delivery setting, including ability to conduct end user-research, and set performance targets for evaluation.
- Experience working in large complex organisations, including in a health data or health technology environment.
- Proven track record and demonstrated ability of working collaboratively with a variety of organisational levels to deliver programme goals.
- Knowledge and understanding of risk management and mitigation strategies in technical projects.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in, or collaborating with, academia, in high impact and multi- institutional settings.
- Previous experience of working in, or collaborating with, commercial organisations, including in health-tech or life sciences.
- Knowledge of clinical and administrative IT systems and processes, as well as of administrative roles and processes within healthcare
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in secure research environments for NHS data
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and judgement skills.
- Advanced understanding and application of data science and statistical techniques to healthcare data.
- Strong leadership skills, with ability to manage and develop a diverse team.
- Ability to work under pressure and to specified deadlines.
- Applies excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including advanced formal presentation skills, to audiences that may be highly specialist professionals, or non-technical, or may be hostile.
- In line with above, is able to demonstrate the ability to communicate the most complex information, or sensitive / contentious information, clearly, confidently, and concisely.
- Credibility to get others on board with the proposed approach, to engage different staff groups so that they are motivated and clear on what they need to do, and to maintain confidence through delivery challenges.
- Works flexibly, prioritises workload and resources in response to changing demands and requirements.
- Competent in the use of MS Office suite
- Ability to plan, organise and present workshops to NHS staff across different organisations.
- Knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to role
- Ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision but to seek guidance as appropriate.
- Ability to assimilate new information quickly and adapt to a flexible and rapidly changing work environment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in facilitating multidisciplinary collaborative translational research
- Skills in advanced data visualisation, presentation, frontend tools
- Proficiency in SQL
- Proficiency in Python
- Understanding of reproducible code and CI/CD practices
- Understanding of sources of error and bias, including how they may be affected by choice of dataset and methodologies applied.
Personal Style and Behaviour
Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise tasks, work on own initiative and manage own workload.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Proven experience in the ability to interact with colleagues at all levels both clinical and non-clinical within healthcare.
- Enthusiastic, responsive to new demands, willing to learn new skills and welcome change.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan and organise effectively.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and professional presentation
- Ability to produce and deliver, or receive and process, detailed complex and highly sensitive information.
- Self-motivated and able to take responsibility for decisions.
- Has good insight and the ability to respond well to constructive criticism.
- Team player
- Logical and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- Proven ability to work under significant pressure with competing priorities.
- Personal credibility, with ability to quickly gain the confidence of others.
- Honesty, openness, and integrity
Desirable criteria
- Is comfortable and confident interacting with people from technical and non-technical backgrounds. Presents data and conclusions in a truthful and appropriate manner
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anthony Shek
- Job title
- Lead NLP Engineer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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