Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the main duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the main duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced degree qualification in health informatics / health data science / healthcare related, or medical degree with equivalent experience
Desirable
- PhD in healthcare related field
- Medical degree or clinical experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Is comfortable and confident interacting with people from technical and non-technical backgrounds. Presents data and conclusions in a truthful and appropriate manner
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced degree qualification in health informatics / health data science / healthcare related, or medical degree with equivalent experience
Desirable
- PhD in healthcare related field
- Medical degree or clinical experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Is comfortable and confident interacting with people from technical and non-technical backgrounds. Presents data and conclusions in a truthful and appropriate manner
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
