[ref. v22798321] Clinical Analytics Development Analyst - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will be a data scientist or healthcare informatician, who can help build the next generation of AI & machine learning infrastructure to support the collection, sharing and accessing of healthcare data.
The position offers an exciting opportunity to develop the next generation of machine learning analytical tools that utilize genomic and clinical data to make personalized medicine a reality.
The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will have a technical background in using Open Source technology and will be responsible for the implementation and design of the platform ensuring it complies with the Trust Governance policy. Experience in the use, implementation, configuration, maintenance and optimisation of ElasticSearch, SQL Server DBA, and other database systems would be required.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Clinical Analytics Team by ensuring and developing the clinical analytics services of CogStack. This includes the development of complex data mining processes, including machine learning, natural language processing, and large-scale data analytics to process clinical data held in the CogStack data lake.All for the purpose of clinical audit, service development and research. Ensuring data quality by identifying and resolving inconsistencies, missing values, and corrupted data as well as developing ETL pipelines and automating complex data extracts with clinical data requestors and researchers are also part of the role’s responsibilities.
Further duties are to provide training and work collaboratively to develop customized reports and dashboards to improve clinical, operational, and financial performance. Troubleshooting technical issues, supporting and further developing tooling for data analysis.
This includes contributing to management and optimisation of derived databases and registries by monitoring performance, optimizing queries, and automating processes.
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will be a data scientist or healthcare informatician, who can help build the next generation of Ai & machine learning infrastructure to support the collection, sharing and accessing of healthcare data.The position offers an exciting opportunity to develop the next generation of machine learning analytical tools that utilize genomic and clinical data to make personalized medicine a reality.
The job holder will be responsible for managing the day to day operational activity of the clinical analytics platform along with supporting the Clinical Analytics Team at KCH. The post holder will be responsible for support in developing the clinical analytics platform in order to help centralise specialist databases for advance analysis.
The post holder will be responsible for the user management and training of the KCH Cogstack system and will be required to meet with clinical users to develop projects that lead to improvements in service performance, improved outcomes for patients and deliver more effective utilisation of resources.This will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills to develop challenging clinical problems into deliverable proposals.
The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will have a technical background in using Open Source technology and will be responsible for the implementation and design of the platform ensuring it complies with the Trust Governance policy. Experience in using SQL Server DBA together with implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of SQL Server systems would be required.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
- Application Developers
- Integration Engineers
- Clinical Analysts
- Key business stakeholders
- Clinical System Owners
- Infrastructure Technical Support Analysts
- Third party suppliers
- ICT Management
- ICT Project Managers
- ICT Security and Data Governance
- Clinical Division Managers
- Precision Medicine Management
- Support the Clinical Analytics Team to ensure the Trust’s Clinical Analytics Platform is appropriately maintained and kept up-to-date.
- Develop complex data mining processes. For example;
I.Machine learning process by regression, ensemble methods, decision trees, clustering, neural networks and deep learning
II.Natural language processing by content extraction, classification, machine generation and text generation- Support the system and ensure data quality. For example, poor data quality metrics will be developed for specific objects that have invalid or missing values, a value coming in an unexpected or corrupted format; duplicate instances; inconsistent references or unit of measures; incomplete cases; broken URLs; corrupted binary data, missing packages of data, gaps in the feeds, miss mapped properties and more.
- Manage secure data access for users, setting up roles and be the point of contact for solving user problems and logging and replying to calls and issues raised by users in a defined time period.
- Provide training and support to customers who require reporting and analytics functions to be developed in their data stacks.
- Create customised dashboards for users on metrics that aid clinical, operational and financial performance.
- Inform the AI & Clinical Bioinformatics Lead of any technical issues and perform troubleshooting processes to determine the root cause and provide possible workaround and solutions, including code errors.
- Manage SQL Server databases including;
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes
- Monitor system's health and performance
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability and security
- Analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time
- Provide suggestions for solutions
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
- Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities
Support the delivery of Informatics projects; which requires liaising with clinical leads and project leads from other Trusts, including Kings Health Partners & Kings College London among others.
Platform Development & Maintenance- Develop and implement new data feeds, alerting processes and machine learning as required by the Kings College Hospital Analytics service.
- Liaise with Trust staff/internal customers in identification, design, development and implementation of new data feeds.
- Discover and review new and emerging technologies and outline the benefits to the AI & Clinical Bioinformatics Lead
- Deploy the Trust’s Clinical Analytics Platform in a consistent and coherent method across the organisation.
- Ensure both hardware and software of the platform comply with the quality assurance standards of the Trust.
- Support software extensions of the Clinical Analytics Platform as required.
- Assign and develop roles using the built-in security tool, ensuring appropriate training has been provided to staff prior to allowing access.
- Perform regular hardware checks and closely monitor the cluster and all data indexing processes ensuring the smooth running of the platform
- Support the Clinical Analytics Developer Lead in, and at times perform, platform upgrades.
- Train users of the Clinical Analytics Platform and assist them in analysing information for business purposes, as required.
- Develop customised training workshops on themed issues, such as natural language based searching of unstructured data sets.
- Develop training and support documentation for users, ensuring it up-to-date in line with the technology.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to degree level with relevant technical knowledge, skills and experience (BSc/MSc level)
- HCPC registered Clinical Scientist
- Completed Specialist Scientist Training Programme in Bioinformatics / Health Informatics
Experience
Essential criteria- Healthcare Analytics/Informatics experience
- Experience of supporting a clinical analytics platform in a large, complex organisation (EPR, Data lakes or similar)
- Experience in an NHS Acute Trust environment
- Experience of Open Source technology
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