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. Our aim is to enable SLaM staff to use clinical data to inform their decision making at individual patient and service levels to improve the quality and equity of the care delivered. Tools including interactive visualisation will feedback data to clinicians in ways that maximise their ability to quickly extract relevant insights and interact with the data.
The service is looking for an experienced Evaluation Lead, passionate about improving quality and tackling inequalities in mental health care and enthusiastic about working with stakeholders from SLaM's clinical workforce, service users and wider community. The role is offered for a two-year period. The post-holder will have skills and experience in planning and delivering mixed methods research, working with clinical data and stakeholder engagement, ideally within mental health care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead on planning and delivering an iterative evaluation strategy for the Clinical Informatics Service as a whole and individual pilot clinical use cases.
The post holder will:
- Plan a mixed methods evaluation strategy using appropriate evaluation frameworks for public health and technological innovation in health.
- Deliver evaluations combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, collecting, managing, and analysing data and feeding back results in written reports and oral presentations to a range of audiences.
- Take an iterative approach to evaluation, working closely with the CIS team and clinician end-users to define requirements and gather feedback through a user-led design process.
- Lead the running of the CIS' Advisory Group of service users and carers.
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 theInstitute 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 Analyst Evaluation Lead BAND 6 - 22.5 hours a week
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Job Description and Person Specification for Analyst Evaluation Lead BAND 6 - 22.5 hours a week
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in health, psychological or social science.
- MSc in health, psychological or social science with significant research component, or equivalent level of experience of working in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of using data and conducting complex analysis and an ability to apply this to healthcare settings.
- Experience of managing the communication of the results of complex analysis.
- Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings such as: oquantitative evaluation oepidemiology ooperations research oeconometrics oqualitative evaluation methods ostatistical modelling ostatistical process control.
- Experience of producing and presenting impact evaluation or analytics outputs to support decision-making.
Desirable
- Experience of using specialist analytical, modelling and data management software (e.g. R, Stata, SQL, GIS/ArcGIS).
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques and evaluation methods
- Knowledge of scope and context of information analysis within the NHS
Desirable
- Complete or near complete PhD using relevant research methods.
Skills
Essential
- Well-developed analytical and interpretation skills
- Able to present complex information for a range of audiences
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in health, psychological or social science.
- MSc in health, psychological or social science with significant research component, or equivalent level of experience of working in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of using data and conducting complex analysis and an ability to apply this to healthcare settings.
- Experience of managing the communication of the results of complex analysis.
- Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings such as: oquantitative evaluation oepidemiology ooperations research oeconometrics oqualitative evaluation methods ostatistical modelling ostatistical process control.
- Experience of producing and presenting impact evaluation or analytics outputs to support decision-making.
Desirable
- Experience of using specialist analytical, modelling and data management software (e.g. R, Stata, SQL, GIS/ArcGIS).
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques and evaluation methods
- Knowledge of scope and context of information analysis within the NHS
Desirable
- Complete or near complete PhD using relevant research methods.
Skills
Essential
- Well-developed analytical and interpretation skills
- Able to present complex information for a range of audiences
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).
