Senior Clinical Scientist
Job summary
Applications are invited for a Band 8A Senior Clinical Scientist post at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
The main purpose of this role is to support with the provision of Clinical Scientific Computing services at Guy's and St Thomas' Trust. The post-holder will work with the team two days a week in the capacity of a senior clinical scientist and as such their main duties will comprise of a subset of the usual tasks of a senior clinical scientist in AI.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will support the team in effectively communicating the work via publishing written content. This includes writing scientific papers, writing digital content to be published on our teams website, and publishing to mailing lists and newsletters. The postholder will maintain the teams website and mailing lists.
This is an exciting opportunity for clinical scientists to translate their research and experience into an exciting, emerging field. They will also take an active role in the delivery of the Scientific Training Programme (STP), supervising STP trainees in Clinical Scientific Computing and Clinical Informatics.
The majority of the work is done remotely and the postholder must be able to work effectively under these conditions. The team works from an office one day per week and holds fortnightly workshops which must be attended in person.
About us
The CSC team at GSTT is a small team working together to improve access and quality of patient care at our Trust and throughout the NHS.
The team ethos is firmly grounded in a desire to improve the patient care provided by our NHS Trust and beyond. We're a highly dynamic team with a benevolent approach to proposed projects and ideas. While we do work remotely, we are a very unified team and meet often both socially and professionally, with regular post-work events and regular group lunches. There is an atmosphere of openness and collaboration.
We have a quality management system annually certified by the BSI to allow us to develop Software As a Medical Device, we have a machine learning operations created in-house which we use to train our models, and we have a deployment platform through which our AI applications are hosted and used. We have a DGX and associated server which we maintain within the team and use for machine learning purposes. We have a straightforward and robust way of accessing, analysing and cleaning data. With this combination of platforms we translate clinical research into clinical practice across many different departments.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Clinical Scientist you will be responsible for producing and, where relevant, publishing written materials pertaining to the work undertaken by the team.
You will be responsible for the maintenance of websites and mailing lists.
You will manage stakeholders, including effectively communicating and regularly engaging with a variety of clinical and non-clinical staff. You will work in the best interest of the patients and service users at GSTT.
You will work as part of a team and receive and give constructive feedback. You will occasionally need to concentrate on a piece of work for many hours at a time, maintaining a high attention to detail, and persist in troubleshooting when problems arise. You will work independently and be self-motivated in managing your own time as productively as possible.
You will work under several pieces of legislation and guidance pertaining to data handling and protection, medical devices maintenance and IT acceptance and deployment in the NHS. You will need to be able to both understand and explain those principles and raise alarm if risks are detected.
You will help support the delivery of training programmes including the NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI and the Scientist Training Programme in Clinical Scientific Computing, Bioinformatics and Clinical Informatics. You will help support the development of junior and of temporary staff.
For further details please see the attached job description or get in touch!
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Good (1st or Upper 2nd class) Honours degree in a relevant subject
- Relevant MSc or equivalent
- Completion of Scientist Training Programme in a relevant discipline, or equivalent
- Relevant PhD
Professional / Statutory Registration
- State registration as a Clinical Scientist (gained or achievable within an acceptable timeframe)
Experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge across the full range of working procedures and practices in clinical scientific computing, building on theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
- Specialist training and practical experience with a wide range of clinical scientific computing systems and software
- Previous experience of scientific publications
- Previous research experience
- Previous experience of maintaining written content publications
Skills
- Advanced knowledge of problems arising from system errors, equipment failure and clinical factors.
- Advanced specialist knowledge of techniques and clinical applications.
- Able to prioritise and manage own work.
- Able to exercise own initiative when dealing with issues within own specialist area of competence and within broader areas of clinical scientific computing.
- In depth understanding of relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines.
- Able to work and communicate effectively within a team.
- Able to use Excel, Word, Outlook etc to set up documents and spreadsheets and extract information.
- Extensive experience of scientific writing and non-scientific writing for a lay audience.
- In-depth understanding of social media
- Extensive experience in educational delivery at all levels
- Demonstrable experience with editing and copywrite
- Demonstrable experience with maintenance of websites
Physical Requirements
- Able to concentrate frequently when subject to unpredictable working patterns.
- Able to concentrate for prolonged periods.
- Able to deal with occasional distressing circumstances.
Additional Information
- Able to effectively communicate highly complex information to a variety of stakeholders.
- Able to present scientific papers at national and international conferences.
- Able to develop and deliver teaching and training on complex subjects.
- Able to deal with complex and unpredictable situations.
- Experience of organising and delivering teaching and training to a multidisciplinary audience.
- Understanding of different formats of teaching delivery (e.g. summer schools, day-long training, formal education)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Thomas' Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London
SE1 7EH
Employer's website
https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx
- Company
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom SE1 7EH
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom SE1 7EH
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year
- Posted