Job summary
The South London & Maudsley (SLaM) Clinical Informatics Service is being set up to provide informatics capability to support clinical decision making in direct care. The service will use innovative data enrichment and modelling techniques developed by researchers and clinicians in the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and make these data entities available to frontline staff. The Clinical Informatics Service has recently been awarded funding over 2 years to develop a working proof-of concept ingestion pipeline and visualisation tool into a fully operational service within SLaM.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated Visualisation Developer to work within the Clinical Informatics team, initially for a 2 year period. The post-holder will have experience of information systems, ideally in a healthcare environment, and familiarity with principles of dashboard and information design and communication.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be a key member of the Clinical Informatics Service team. You will use your skills in designing, optimising and maintaining dashboards to deliver compelling visualizations, which support frontline clinical staff, by curating complex clinical data.
The post-holder will:
- Work with clinical stakeholder leads and UX designers to translate user requirements into interactive visualisations, which deliver critical clinical intelligence.
- Work with data modellers, DBAs and technical team members to understand data flow within the Trust, and to support data modelling, load and refresh requirements and user role requirements.
- Work with stakeholder groups and end users to support user acceptance testing, and to develop dashboards iteratively in an agile design process.
- Work within the broader BRC team to understand our approach to data entity modelling and text mining, and with our natural language processing (NLP) team to support delivery of text-heavy records into meaningful and accessible data and visualisations.
- Work with a range of technical platforms including Microsoft Azure, SQL and elasticsearch and Kibana, supported by the wider technical team to develop new skills, and to test out new technologies and solutions.
About us
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'.
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.
About the Location
The job will be based at the IoPPN Main Building, part of the wider Denmark Hill campus shared by SLaM and King's College London. The IoPPN main building is home to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.
Denmark Hill is very well connected and staff can reach Victoria or Blackfriars stations in 10 minutes by train, and East London is 25 minutes by overground.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Job Description and Person Specification for full-time Band 7 Visualisation Developer (post 2024002)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Job Description and Person Specification for full-time Band 7 Visualisation Developer (post 2024002)
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Degree in STEM associated subject (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics), or equivalent or relevant experience.
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant subject, masters or equivalent experience.
General Skills
Essential
- Project management skills and experience, strong ability to meet deadlines
- Flexible approach to learning and problem solving
- Leadership, communication and interpersonal skills to include presentation, influencing, negotiation and complex report writing
- An effective team player, with experience of working in a cohesive team environment
- Able to self-organise and structure your work, with minimal supervision
- Good verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Excellent IT and information management skills
- Commitment to personal and professional development
Desirable
- Experience of working in Scrum/Agile methodology
- Able to innovate and show initiative
Technical experience and knowledge
Essential
- Experience in gathering, analysing, designing and delivering requirements for reports from stakeholders.
- Designing effective BI/Operational Report data models
- Understanding of traditional RDBMS (SQL, Oracle)
- Using integrated data and visualisation platforms (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Elastic stack, etc).
- Understanding of NoSQL databases (e.g. elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc)
- Platform-specific query languages (e.g. KQL, Kusto, SQL) or scripting languages (python, java, etc).
- Managing data pipelines (e.g. custom pipelines, APIs, DBCs, connector SDKs.
- Knowledge of data modelling, dashboard development and data quality testing
Desirable
- Experience of development within Cloud Architecture (e.g. Microsoft Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, etc)
- Elasticsearch index patterns (or equivalent data modelling)
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Degree in STEM associated subject (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics), or equivalent or relevant experience.
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant subject, masters or equivalent experience.
General Skills
Essential
- Project management skills and experience, strong ability to meet deadlines
- Flexible approach to learning and problem solving
- Leadership, communication and interpersonal skills to include presentation, influencing, negotiation and complex report writing
- An effective team player, with experience of working in a cohesive team environment
- Able to self-organise and structure your work, with minimal supervision
- Good verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Excellent IT and information management skills
- Commitment to personal and professional development
Desirable
- Experience of working in Scrum/Agile methodology
- Able to innovate and show initiative
Technical experience and knowledge
Essential
- Experience in gathering, analysing, designing and delivering requirements for reports from stakeholders.
- Designing effective BI/Operational Report data models
- Understanding of traditional RDBMS (SQL, Oracle)
- Using integrated data and visualisation platforms (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Elastic stack, etc).
- Understanding of NoSQL databases (e.g. elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc)
- Platform-specific query languages (e.g. KQL, Kusto, SQL) or scripting languages (python, java, etc).
- Managing data pipelines (e.g. custom pipelines, APIs, DBCs, connector SDKs.
- Knowledge of data modelling, dashboard development and data quality testing
Desirable
- Experience of development within Cloud Architecture (e.g. Microsoft Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, etc)
- Elasticsearch index patterns (or equivalent data modelling)
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).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
IOPPN Main Building, 16 De Crespigny Park
London
SE5 8AZ
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
