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. The service will use innovative data enrichment and modelling techniques developed by researchers and clinicians in the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and make these data entities available to frontline staff. The Clinical Informatics Service has recently been awarded funding over 2 years deploy the proof of concept into a fully operational service within SLaM.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated NLP Developer to work within the Clinical Informatics team, initially for a 2 year period. The post-holder will have experience of large-scale information systems, ideally in a healthcare environment, and familiarity with natural language processing.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
- Work with the wider BRC informatics team to deploy and develop Natural Language Processing applications to quantify various clinical entities.
- Develop pipelines, processes and documentation which support the full NLP app lifecycle; from development, through testing to deployment.
- Support the day-to-day running of NLP operational services.
- Work with clinical stakeholders to develop robust definitions of clinical entities and to pinpoint relevant textual source data, and with NLP testers to validate and improve app performance.
- Use annotation tools, and rule-based (Jape) and machine learning classification approaches where appropriate to develop new apps.
- Contribute to documentation of our NLP catalogue, ensuring that apps are used appropriately, for relevant cohorts and with full understanding of their underlying assumptions and limitations.
- Work with our technical team to design and implement infrastructure that supports incremental build of source data, daily NLP runs and usage of app output within dashboards.
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 full-time NLP Lead BAND 7 (Position number 46581317)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Job Description and Person Specification for full-time NLP Lead BAND 7 (Position number 46581317)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification/experience plus additional specialist knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant experience of hands on SQL queries, stored procedures and OLAP structures in an enterprise database environment
- Experience of scripting language (e.g. Python, Perl, Powershell)
- Demonstratable experience of data mining toolsets and software
- Relevant practical experience of Enterprise search applications (A and I)
- Experience of data integration in multiple formats.
- Relevant experience of integrating databases from multiple vendors
Desirable
- Experience of working in the NHS or other health care setting
- Experience of using annotation tools e.g.Labelstudio, LightTag, Brat (A and I)
Knowledge
Essential
- Notable knowledge and experience of pattern matching languages such as regular expressions
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and other common desktop software such as antivirus and productivity suites
- Good working knowledge of data analysis and reporting tools, e.g. R.
- Exposure to Oracle and other RDBMS products
Skills
Essential
- Customer focused with good verbal communication skills
- Excellent standard of written English
- Good time management, customer focused skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team to SLA deadlines
- Ability to plan, agree, schedule, document and implement changes using a structured change control process
- Ability to follow instructions and work unsupervised
- Logical, methodical, pro-active and enthusiastic
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification/experience plus additional specialist knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant experience of hands on SQL queries, stored procedures and OLAP structures in an enterprise database environment
- Experience of scripting language (e.g. Python, Perl, Powershell)
- Demonstratable experience of data mining toolsets and software
- Relevant practical experience of Enterprise search applications (A and I)
- Experience of data integration in multiple formats.
- Relevant experience of integrating databases from multiple vendors
Desirable
- Experience of working in the NHS or other health care setting
- Experience of using annotation tools e.g.Labelstudio, LightTag, Brat (A and I)
Knowledge
Essential
- Notable knowledge and experience of pattern matching languages such as regular expressions
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and other common desktop software such as antivirus and productivity suites
- Good working knowledge of data analysis and reporting tools, e.g. R.
- Exposure to Oracle and other RDBMS products
Skills
Essential
- Customer focused with good verbal communication skills
- Excellent standard of written English
- Good time management, customer focused skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team to SLA deadlines
- Ability to plan, agree, schedule, document and implement changes using a structured change control process
- Ability to follow instructions and work unsupervised
- Logical, methodical, pro-active and enthusiastic
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).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
CTI Office, 3rd Floor East Wing, IoPPN Main Building
16 De Crespigny Park
London
SE5 8AF
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
