We're Hiring: Clinical Informatician
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This is a part time post for an initial 2 years, with an opportunity to extend if the funding is available. We are happy to support this role being carried out on a secondment basis with the number of days dependent on clinical commitments, up to a maximum of approximately 0.5FTE.
- Closing date: Noon on 4th January 2022
- Vacancy ID: 154541
- Apply: Apply online here
We are recruiting clinical informaticians to be a key part of The Open Analytics Unit, an NHS England-funded project at the DataLab at the University of Oxford. The Open Analytics Unit is supporting NHS England to deliver interactive tools and services to support delivery of NHS primary care services and medicines to improve patient care, alongside traditional health services research and analysis.
Who we are
The DataLab is a mixed team of clinicians, software developers, policy experts, and traditional academic researchers, all pooling skills and knowledge. We have a strong track record of delivering high impact research papers in Nature, Lancet and BMJ; but also real-world impact on NHS policy and clinical practice; and high impact data science tools and services such as OpenSAFELY, OpenPrescribing, OpenCodelists and TrialsTracker.
Why join us?
Our mission is to create a modern, open, collaborative ecosystem for health research. We do this by shipping code, delivering papers, building capacity, and advocating for new ways of working. We aim to lead by example, and you will work with us on this: recurring tasks are turned into packages and libraries; all code is shared openly for review and re-use with adequate documentation; analyses are delivered in Jupyter notebooks for others to read, evaluate, re-purpose, and learn with. As we deliver high quality research ourselves, we leave a solid template of re-usable tools behind for others to use. This requires close collaboration between researchers, clinicians and software developers, for each to develop a close understanding of each others’ working practices.
Who we’re looking for
We want to meet outstanding clinicians who share our vision and have, or can rapidly develop, the skills needed to deliver it with us. You will, of course, need to have familiarity with health service informatics standards such as SNOMED CT and the NHS dictionary of medicines and devices. You will also be expected to support other informaticians to develop their skills that are essential for delivering effective systems. We have a good record of working with NHS staff to help them develop more robust informatics, software and data science skills: but we are particularly keen to meet candidates who are ready to work in Python, write a clear Jupyter notebook, develop and quality assure a clinical codelist and merge a pull request on GitHub. At the very least, you will need to understand why these methods are important for delivering good, open, efficient, reproducible and high quality health services research, analysis and interactive tools; and be able to work with us bring NHS data analysis into the 21st century.
The role
You will be working with OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing to deliver detailed analysis and interactive services to a range of NHS staff, from the clinical coal face to strategic policy makers in national organisations. You will be responsible for translating clinical knowledge, information and guidelines into analytical software code and ensuring they are open and reusable, for example through OpenCodelists. You will also contribute to the development of new features on OpenCodelists, OpenPrescribing and OpenSAFELY as well as helping to lead a modern open approach to health services research to support our stated aim of bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century.
You will report to Dr Ben Goldacre, the PI. You can read more about our work and our approach at thedatalab.org. We are actively seeking to increase our team’s diversity, and so we welcome applications from those in under-represented groups.
You will be based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, but you may be able to agree on a pattern of regular remote working with your Line Manager.
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Visit https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk > search all jobs > search by “DataLab” or vacancy ID 154541 for a detailed job description and application form.
Want to know more?
If you’re not sure you meet the criteria, you have questions about the role, or you’d just like to talk to someone informally about what it’s like to work here, please reach out to Brian, one of our Research Fellows, and he’ll be happy to tell you more.
Contact: Brian MacKenna