Clinical Informatician

Grade 8. For appropriately qualified doctors: Grade E66: £65,955 to £85,973 per annum pro-rata. For others: Grade 8 (£48,235 to £57,255 with a discretionary range to £62,407 pro-rata). Or if on secondment, the relevant NHS salary for the current post.  

We are recruiting a Clinical Informatician to work in the Open Analytics Unit, the unit is supporting NHS England to deliver interactive tools and services to support delivery of NHS primary care services and medicines to improve patient care, alongside traditional health services research and analysis. 

You will be working with OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing to deliver detailed analysis to turn clinical knowledge, information and guidelines into computer code to improve patient care through the better use of software and data science in health services. For example, you will be responsible for developing and quality assuring codelists and making them available through OpenCodelists. 

The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science is a mixed team of clinicians, software developers, policy experts, and traditional academic researchers, all pooling skills and knowledge. We have a strong track record of delivering high impact research papers in Nature, Lancet and BMJ; but also real-world impact on NHS policy and clinical practice; and high impact data science tools and services such as OpenSAFELY, OpenPrescribing, OpenCodelists and TrialsTracker.

Our mission is to create a modern, open, collaborative ecosystem for health research. We do this by shipping code, delivering papers, building capacity, and advocating for new ways of working. We aim to lead by example: recurring tasks are turned into packages and libraries; all code is shared openly for review and re-use; analyses are delivered in Jupyter notebooks for others to read, evaluate, re-purpose, and learn with. 

We want to meet clinicians who share this vision and have, or can rapidly develop, the skills needed to deliver it with us. We are particularly interested in clinicians who have experience of common standards such as SNOMED-CT or the NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) and implementing small- or large-scale informatics projects in the health service.

You will be based in the Radcliffe Primary Care Building within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG but you will be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working with your line manager.

Whilst this role is being advertised as a University Grade 8 (£48,235 to £57,255 with a discretionary range to £62,407 per annum, pro-rata), it is also open to applications from qualified doctors at Grade E66: £65,955 to £85,973 per annum (pro-rata). A secondment opportunity may also be considered, where the relevant NHS salary will be used.

This is a part-time (0.4FTE – 0.6FTE) position and fixed-term until 31 October 2026 in the first instance. 

You will report to Brian MacKenna, Director of Research and NHS Analytics Operations. You can read more at www.bennett.ox.ac.uk and OpenSAFELY: Home, or contact Victoria Speed at victoria.speed@phc.ox.ac.uk to discuss the post.

“Committed to equality and valuing diversity”

You will be required to upload a CV and Supporting Statement as part of your online application. The Supporting Statement should include a cover letter and should also clearly describe how you meet each of the selection criteria listed in the job description. Click here for information and advice on writing an effective Supporting Statement.

The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Friday 22 November 2024. 

Interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing 9 December 2024.

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