Clinical Data Analyst (N&S OPD CIPPRD)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

The Centre of Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology and Rare Diseases (CIPPRD) provides whole-person medicine and integrated mental and physical health care using clinically

innovative interventions alongside patient involvement for children and young people with complex, severe, and treatment-resistant co-occurring neuropsychiatric disorders, and medical conditions including rare diseases.

This service provides highly specialist assessment, pharmacological and psychological treatment

for children with a variety of complex neuropsychiatric disorders. This is in the context of

psychotropic-induced side-effects and neuropsychiatric aspects in children with terminal illness.

This role will involve optimising our digital health platform for use with patients within our team in line with NHS standards and delivering high quality clinical analytics to enhance our clinical care.

Our service also includes the world’s first Centre for Rett Syndrome, a new service that provides neuropsychiatric services for Rett Syndrome patients across the life span.

Main duties of the job

The team also has students and trainees from different disciplines and is well supported by our admin team.

• To provide a clinical data analytics service within the structure of the CIPPRD to ensure that digital therapeutics form a central part of routine care for all patients in the service.
• To take responsibility for coordinating and managing data systems and processes involved, to ensure maximal clinical utilisation of innovative digital health technologies, methodologies and systems to enable expert and excellent clinical care.
• To provide high quality data analytics to enable service evaluation and development.

Working for our organisation

The post in CIPPPRD is based at the Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, Maudsley Hospital. The Michael Rutter Centre is located at Denmark Hill, less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). CIPPRD provide services nationally across the UK as well as to our local SLaM boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark.

Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.

Flexible working:

(This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job will involve working closely with other data analysts and taking responsibility under the guidance of the Head of Service to use advanced analytics systems or packages to provide state-of-the-art information for the clinical team.

Person specification

Qualifications

• First degree in a relevant area (e.g. psychology, bioinformatics, data science)

• Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice, bioinformatics, or data science through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent).

Experience

• Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs. (A/I)
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience. (A/I)
• Experience in psychophysiological recording and digital health care. (A/I)
• Experience in analysing clinical population datasets. (A/I)
• Experience of data collection and data management in child and adolescent neuropsychiatric disorders. (A/I)
• Experience in working and communicating with children with disabilities and their families. (A/I)

• Experience of developing and carrying out research projects. (A/I)
• Experience in working and communicating with children with disabilities and their families. (A/I)

Understanding and Knowledge

• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment. (A/I)
• Knowledge of psychological and psychophysiological assessment and clinical psychometrics. (A/I)
• Postgraduate or Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis. (A/I)
• Knowledge of data management and advanced statistical software that have been applied to a relevant area. (A/I)
• Excellent knowledge of qualitative and quantitative statistical skills. (A/I)
• Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care. (A/I)

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities. (A/I)

Skills

• To deliver clinical data analytics for psychophysiological and digital health assessment and therapeutics across cultural and other differences. (A/I)
• To select and administer specialist clinical data analysis of psychophysiological and digital health assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources. (A/I)
• Advanced computer skills, including all MS applications, the internet, online databases, and main platform of electronic data collection
• To be skilled in the administration of analytics tools and processes, including those that require complex manipulation and advanced data analysis. (A/I)
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I)
• To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups, and for meetings such as case reviews. (A/I)
• To plan allocation of tasks to students and trainees (A/I)

Abilities

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I)
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I)
• Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and data analysis interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these. (A/I)
• Excellent organisational abilities and proven problem-solving skills (A/I)
• Initiative and the ability to work independently, to prioritise and manage own work in response to deadlines (A/I)
• Proven high level of accuracy in record keeping and data recording (A/I)
• Ability to understand and interpret clinical trial data (A/I)
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour. (A/I)
• Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self. (A/I)

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’