Clinical Data Scientist- Royal Brompton Hospital London
Job description
Are you looking for a rewarding position as a data scientist to support transformation and improvement? If so we want to hear from you.
This role is a great opportunity to join the Clinical Informatics and Transformation team primarily at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Working across each team you will provide informatics support for improvement, clinicians and researchers to achieve world class research, clinical excellence and ultimately to improve our patient’s health outcomes.
You will design, develop and support analysis solutions using Power BI, SAS and SQL to support transformation, improvement and lead to insight.
You will need experience in healthcare data and strong analysis skills. Communication skills and a willingness to learn are vital for the role.
To support and develop data science and data analysis projects from the Clinical Data Warehouse.
To play a support role in the team for user support and liaison, set up and testing of reports and projects, assisting with Clinical Data Warehouse maintenance, developments, data mining, collection and analysis of data to reveal patterns or anomalies, performance measurement reporting.
To be responsible for the running of the services in the Trust supported by the Clinical Informatics team and ensuring that issues are fed back to Digital, Technology and Information (DT&I) Division for review and where appropriate so that remedial actions can be developed as part of the development lifecycle.
To work within the Transformation team to extract, analyse and measure the impact of improvement projects, using information gathered from Trust data warehouses, external data sources, benchmarking and surveys.
To support and advise members of the Transformation team and wider organisation to interpret and make best use of improvement data and analysis
This is joint post working between Clinical Informatics and Transformation to deliver analytical solutions to support transformation initiatives.
Our Transformation team works with clinical and operational teams of the Heart, Lung, and Critical Care Clinical Group based across Royal Brompton, Harefield and Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals to identify opportunities to improve services, create a vision to guide improvements, and provide the inspiration, resource and tools to execute changes in a collaborative way. The team aspires to continually enhance the quality of care we deliver, the outcomes our patients achieve as a result, and their experience of our services. We must meanwhile future-proof the organisation and protect our world-leading services and research by making care delivery as efficient as possible. To do so we must leverage our existing clinical and administrative resources whilst taking advantage of emerging healthcare technologies.
Clinical Informatics provides informatics solutions, to support achieve world class research, clinical excellence and ultimately to improve our patient’s health outcomes. The team designs, develops and supports SAS analysis solutions to enable improvement, efficiency and lead to insight. The team works closely with clinicians and researchers to help them meet their requirements as well as proactively contributing to the team’s ambitious aspirations and supporting others to develop their own SAS skills.
Communication
To communicate with non-technical staff outside of own department regarding complex analysis, information and data issues in a simplified manner
To interpret complex data requirements to produce ad hoc or production reports, dashboards, data mining and predictive analytical models.
To liaise and support other Trust staff as necessary with reporting, and analytical related issues. To provide training, support and mentoring to staff to enhance their skills so they can become self-sufficient in developing their own reports, or confident in using new software or solutions that have been developed within the Transformation team.
To liaise with other members of the Data, Technology and Information directorateto ensure the effective implementation and running of the Clinical Informatics service and its analytics and reporting functions.
To liaise with the Clinical Informatics Manager and wider Transformation team on a regular basis to inform and update on analysis projects, including presenting data or new findings identified within data that may impact on improvement projects.
To liaise with other members of the Clinical Informatics team, other departments and users to identify faults for investigation or shortcomings within the systems and then analyse the requirements and either implement them or specify changes required to third parties.
To liaise with the supplier and outside agencies concerning the operation or enhancement of the CDW system or service.
Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect)
To support clinicians, researchers and non clinical staff in producing information, analysis and data models for the Trust.
To provide user support for the Clinical Informatics and Transformation services. The support will include acting as a specialist to answering general queries, investigating problems and training users, and the design and oversight of implementation of technical solutions where appropriate.
To act as an Innovation and Technology Division’s technical expert in the agreed areas of Clinical Informatics.
To undertake accurate and timely data analysis, validation and reporting of data for quality improvement by the Transformation project, which will involve working appropriately with patient data.
Provide coaching for clinical and non-clinical staff on the use of data analysis and interpretation in relation to transformation and improvement projects.
Policy & Service development
To be involved, and provide support to the Management Team, for the development of Clinical Informatics, ensuring that support processes are developed and maintained to industry standards, in line with ITIL.
Implements policies for the Clinical Informatics and Transformation Services.
Proposes changes to Clinical Informatics and Transformation user working practices and procedures. This may include when planning for new projects, there are changes in best practice guidelines and new reporting processes.
To identify and implement improvements in reporting, software or other systems, which contribute to the performance of the systems or accuracy of data. To plan own workload and projects relating to these improvements.
To identify, in conjunction with other members of the department, or with members of the user community, mechanisms to improve the throughput, presentation and quality of information.
To abide by GDPR and NHS information governance rules, and Clinical Informatics policies, particularly with regard to security, confidentiality and Information Governance (IG). Propose and implement changes to local policies and practice to ensure that security and confidentiality best practice is followed at all times.
Develop standards for reporting, dashboards, data mining and
predictive studies in conjunction with the remainder of the Clinical Informatics team. Assist, the Clinical Informatics Manager and the Clinical Informatics committee in developing policies.
Information management
To work with stakeholders, researchers and clinicians to define, set up, test and implement quality, accurate, validated and timely reports from the Clinical Data Warehouse using the SAS toolset.
To plan and carry out prioritised work and report requests as assigned by the Clinical Informatics Manager acting on own initiative to design most appropriate solution to the requests. To respond quickly and efficiently to prioritised information requests, using SAS Enterprise Guide, Data Management Studio, Python, and Structured Query Language (SQL).
To extend and develop Clinical Data Warehouse functionality as required, using own initiative to develop analytical and data science solutions that meet requirements and within Clinical Informatics standards.
To support the Clinical Data Warehouse team in maintaining the Clinical Data Warehouse and reporting systems. This includes the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes.
To provide full documentation on all Clinical Data Warehouse enhancements, reports, data extracts and interfaces. This will include keeping existing documentation up to date as well as writing new documentation.
To interpret complex database and data warehouse processes and standards.
To test own work and peer-review team member’s work.
To work with stakeholders including clinicians and those outside own department to define, set up, test and implement high quality, accurate, validated and timely reports to support Transformation projects, carrying out requests in an efficient and timely manner using the appropriate toolkit including SQL Server, Excel and Power BI.
Acts as a lead specialist in the field of clinical informatics, data science and use of analytics for improvement.
To create and maintain documentation on reports, data extracts and survey analysis for Transformation projects.
Research and development
To support researchers through the provision of information from the Clinical Data Warehouse.
To offer assistance to researchers and clinicians on preparing and analysing patient level longitudinal data in accordance with a statistical analysis plan acting as a specialist in clinical informatics.
