Job summary
We're building the future of text analytics for patient experience data at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, and open sourcing it so everyone can use it. This post supports a team working on an NHSE funded project to build and deploy text analytics for patient experience data for several pilot trusts, with a view to recruiting more as the work matures. We need your skills in Python, text mining, machine learning, deep learning, and everything else that's needed to make reliable, accurate, performant models that can read and theme text data. We use R and Shiny on the frontend and Python and MySQL in the back, and you can see the code here
- https://github.com/CDU-data-science-team/pxtextmining
- https://github.com/CDU-data-science-team/experiencesdashboard
The team are fully hybrid and this post can be offered on a remote basis.
Main duties of the job
- Assisting with the deployment of the text mining system in the cloud for access by partner organisations
- Development of text mining algorithms
- Carrying out, feeding back, and acting on the results of user testing
- Analysing and suggesting ways to improve the algorithms and dashboard implementation
- Helping team members and the wider Trust and partner organisations to develop skills and understanding in the development, deployment, use, and interpretation of text mining algorithms in a patient experience context
- Assist with the development and testing of user documentation for the Shiny application
About us
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
We are a small and friendly team of data scientists with expertise in RAP/ data pipelines, forecasting, statistics, and Shiny. Our team believes in using open source data science to make the world better and you will see on our GitHub that we share as much of our work as we can. Two of the team are senior fellows in NHS-R and if you join this team you will be part of a large and thriving national community of data scientists using R and Python in healthcare.
The job will involve writing and deploying text mining and machine learning algorithms as part of a team building models for use anywhere NHS organisations collect patient experience data.
For more details please refer to the job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are a small and friendly team of data scientists with expertise in RAP/ data pipelines, forecasting, statistics, and Shiny. Our team believes in using open source data science to make the world better and you will see on our GitHub that we share as much of our work as we can. Two of the team are senior fellows in NHS-R and if you join this team you will be part of a large and thriving national community of data scientists using R and Python in healthcare.
The job will involve writing and deploying text mining and machine learning algorithms as part of a team building models for use anywhere NHS organisations collect patient experience data.
For more details please refer to the job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of writing and maintaining code, especially R or Python, for data analysis
- Experience of statistical analysis or machine learning
- Experience of preparing reports on data
Desirable
- Experience designing and programming dashboards (e.g. using Shiny or Dash)
- Experience with reproducible reporting
- Experience preparing public health and epidemiological focused analyses and reports
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of statistics or machine learning
- Ability to extract information from databases/datasets to help understand a process or solve a problem and make informed recommendations based on detailed data insight
Desirable
- Knowledge of Linux terminal and server maintenance
- Knowledge of public health and epidemiological approaches
Skills
Essential
- Excellent numerical/statistical/ skills
- Excellent skills with R/Python or similar for data analysis
- Ability to identify and fix bugs in code
- Strong team working skills
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to build positive relations within and outside the organisation, with health professionals and managers
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Desirable
- Ability to write documentation and deliver training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of writing and maintaining code, especially R or Python, for data analysis
- Experience of statistical analysis or machine learning
- Experience of preparing reports on data
Desirable
- Experience designing and programming dashboards (e.g. using Shiny or Dash)
- Experience with reproducible reporting
- Experience preparing public health and epidemiological focused analyses and reports
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of statistics or machine learning
- Ability to extract information from databases/datasets to help understand a process or solve a problem and make informed recommendations based on detailed data insight
Desirable
- Knowledge of Linux terminal and server maintenance
- Knowledge of public health and epidemiological approaches
Skills
Essential
- Excellent numerical/statistical/ skills
- Excellent skills with R/Python or similar for data analysis
- Ability to identify and fix bugs in code
- Strong team working skills
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to build positive relations within and outside the organisation, with health professionals and managers
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Desirable
- Ability to write documentation and deliver training
Additional information
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).
