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 R/ Shiny, user testing, UX, UI development, visualisation, and everything else that's needed to take machine learning algorithms and make them useful, legible, and accessible to endusers throughout the country through a web browser. 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/experiencesdashboar
The team are fully hybrid and this post can be offered on a remote basis.
Main duties of the job
- Producing a frontend/ dashboard implementation of the text mining system for use by partner trusts
- Assisting with the deployment of the text mining system in the cloud for access by partner organisations
- 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 to develop skills and understanding in the development, deployment, use, and interpretation of interactive dashboards produced with Shiny
- 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, friendly team of data scientists with diverse expertise in RAP/ data pipelines, forecasting, statistics, Shiny, and text mining. 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 our members are senior fellow 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 involves building dashboards and reactive interfaces to allow users to add, edit, and interact with text based experience data as part of a national project to produce a text mining system that can be used by the whole NHS.
For more details please see the job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are a small, friendly team of data scientists with diverse expertise in RAP/ data pipelines, forecasting, statistics, Shiny, and text mining. 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 our members are senior fellow 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 involves building dashboards and reactive interfaces to allow users to add, edit, and interact with text based experience data as part of a national project to produce a text mining system that can be used by the whole NHS.
For more details please see 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 for data analysis/ web application development
- Experience of web application programming for data science, especially R/ Shiny but also e.g. JavaScript, React
- Experience of interpreting and analysing complex information and presenting it in a simplified manner
Desirable
- Experience of designing and delivering training to small groups
- Experience with setup and maintenance of Linux server
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of web application programming paradigms, particularly for data science (especially Shiny but also e.g. JavaScript, node.js, React)
Desirable
- Knowledge of Linux terminal and server maintenance
Skills
Essential
- Excellent numerical/ statistical/ skills
- Excellent skills with R (especially) or Python or similar for data analysis and interface design (e.g. Shiny)
- Ability to identify and fix bugs in code
- Strong team working skills
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to build positive relations within and outside the organisation, with health professionals and managers
- Ability to concentrate when carrying out detailed analysis over sustained periods
- 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 for data analysis/ web application development
- Experience of web application programming for data science, especially R/ Shiny but also e.g. JavaScript, React
- Experience of interpreting and analysing complex information and presenting it in a simplified manner
Desirable
- Experience of designing and delivering training to small groups
- Experience with setup and maintenance of Linux server
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of web application programming paradigms, particularly for data science (especially Shiny but also e.g. JavaScript, node.js, React)
Desirable
- Knowledge of Linux terminal and server maintenance
Skills
Essential
- Excellent numerical/ statistical/ skills
- Excellent skills with R (especially) or Python or similar for data analysis and interface design (e.g. Shiny)
- Ability to identify and fix bugs in code
- Strong team working skills
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to build positive relations within and outside the organisation, with health professionals and managers
- Ability to concentrate when carrying out detailed analysis over sustained periods
- 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).
