• Job Description

  Req#: C9309-25-0187?language=en&page=1153&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  UCLH is a leading healthcare provider committed to delivering world-class patient care, research, and education. We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced and motivated scientist to support the Head of Clinical Scientific Computing in leading, managing and developing our Clinical Scientific Computing Team within the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at UCLH.

  This role presents a fantastic opportunity which comes at an exciting time, as we have just completed an extensive engagement exercise with stakeholders across our clinical services, our existing team, advocates of change within the UCLH Digital Innovation Hub, the UCL Advanced Computing Centre and with the visionary research leaders within UCLH.

  As the Deputy Head of Clinical Scientific Computing, you will bring energy and passion as you provide leadership and management to the Clinical Scientific Computing Section. You will be the programme lead for projects involving programming and data science and will also oversee the delivery of essential clinical scientific computing support, drive innovation, and collaborate with key stakeholders to advance the Trust's digital healthcare initiatives. You will be the Training Officer responsible for the accreditation and delivery of the Scientist Training Programme in Clinical Scientific Computing

  Main duties of the job

  You will have a strong academic background, significant experience in clinical scientific computing, including healthcare IT systems, software development, and data science, proven leadership and management skills, a strong understanding of healthcare regulations and standards, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.

  You will work closely with the Head of Clinical Scientific Computing, the Systems and Infrastructure Lead and with senior leaders of clinical, research and digital services across the Trust, developing strong and productive working relationships focussed on delivering and implementing strategic plans that align with the Trust's vision for digital technology. You will manage a team of clinical scientists and trainees, supporting them to balance priorities between systems support, innovation and development.

  You will benefit from an associate position within University College London's Advanced Research Computing Centre, one of the UK's leading research and service institutes for computational science and digital scholarship. There, you will join a 100-strong community of research technology professionals - data stewards, data scientists, and infrastructure and software engineers, benefitting from collaboration, mentorship and peer-support.

  About us

  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

  We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

  • University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

  We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

  We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

  Date posted

  19 February 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8c

  Salary

  £82,462 to £93,773 a year Per annum inclusive of HCAS

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  309-UCLH-5923

  Job locations

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, University College London Hospital

  25 Grafton Way

  London

  WC1E 6DB

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

  Your team have significant commitments to support clinical services and systems in Neurophysiology, Womens Health, Radiotherapy, Proton Beam Therapy, Nuclear Medicine and Sterile Services. You will be accountable for the performance of your team and for supporting the Head of CSC in business planning to manage the quality, risks, resources and expectations of the service users.

  Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

  UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  *In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.

  UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

  Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.

  To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

  Your team have significant commitments to support clinical services and systems in Neurophysiology, Womens Health, Radiotherapy, Proton Beam Therapy, Nuclear Medicine and Sterile Services. You will be accountable for the performance of your team and for supporting the Head of CSC in business planning to manage the quality, risks, resources and expectations of the service users.

  Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

  UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  *In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.

  UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

  Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.

  To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

  Person Specification

  Knowledge and Qualifications

  Essential

  • 1st or 2nd class honours degree in computer science, a physical science, engineering, or equivalent
  • Relevant PhD or equivalent (MSc / MEng with additional specialist training or research experience)
  • State Registration as a Clinical Scientist / able to register within 3 years of appointment.
  • Corporate Membership of relevant professional institutes (eg IPEM, IET)
  • Evidence of training and development in Leadership & Management

  Desirable

  • Chartered Engineer or Chartered Scientist
  • Registered, or eligible to register, as a Higher Specialist Scientist with the Academy for Healthcare Science

  Scientific & Technical

  Essential

  • Advanced knowledge across the full range of working procedures and practices in clinical scientific computing including relevant legislation, national and international standards, NHS policy, and professional and other guidelines.
  • Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices (including issue tracking, testing, documentation, version control and continuous integration) that enable the delivery of reliable, sustainable and trustworthy outputs
  • Expert knowledge of statistics and mathematics applied to acquiring reliable insight from data.
  • Advanced knowledge of computer hardware and software at both operating system and application level and also of medical device IT systems.
  • Broad knowledge of architecture, configuration, security and performance management of networks using TCP/IP protocols
  • Broad knowledge of security issues associated with computer systems within the Trust, NHS and health sector, and the measures required to address these.
  • Broad knowledge of data management, including storage, archive, backup and data publication technologies
  • Broad knowledge of medical devices and of other areas of medical physics and clinical engineering practice and procedure.

  Clinical Knowledge

  Essential

  • Knowledge of clinical practice and the implications for clinical scientific computing.
  • Basic knowledge of relevant anatomy, physiology and pathology.
  • Advanced understanding of the potential risks to patients, staff and organisations arising from system failure, human error and clinical scientific computing practice
  • Advanced knowledge and understanding of quality and risk management as they apply to clinical scientific computing.

  Managerial

  Essential

  • Knowledge of good people management practice including recruitment, performance and disciplinary policy.
  • Understanding of quality and performance management and their application to a clinical scientific computing service.

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of financial matters relating to service costings and income management, including full costs recovery and rules for VAT charging.

  Scientific & Technical

  Essential

  • Significant experience of a scientific healthcare environment
  • Experience of managing computer operating systems especially Unix and Windows
  • Experience of a wide variety of computing systems and application packages
  • Experience of managing IT systems in a clinical environment
  • Experience of managing high value, high profile, IT projects
  • Experience with the core tools of data science and analytics, in a programmatic framework such as R, Python, or Julia
  • Experience with at least one specialist technique or tool in data analytics, such as natural language processing, neural networks, Bayesian inference, Gaussian processes.
  • Experience with the authorship, development, testing and maintenance of software for clinical research & development. This might include (but is not limited to) software supporting data processing and statistical analysis, image analysis tools, front- and back-end web development, mobile apps, high-performance simulation software, or mathematical software.
  • Experience of programming both applications and systems
  • Experience in the supervision of research and development work.
  • Experience with at least one programming language used for research (such as C, C++, Fortran, Javascript, Julia, Python, or R) at a level and breadth commensurate with seniority

  Desirable

  • Experience of holding grants and supervising research workers.

  Managerial experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience of providing services in a scientific healthcare environment.
  • Experience of people management, including staff appraisal.
  • Experience of managing resources and project budgets.

  Desirable

  • Experience of identifying service development opportunities and progressing business plans.
  • Experience of involvement in national committees relating to science in healthcare.

  Scientific & Clinical - Skills and abilities

  Essential

  • Ability to apply knowledge and experience in making judgements regarding the safe and optimal configuration and use of medical IT systems, involving objective assessment of benefits and risks associated with the available options.
  • Ability to perform options appraisals in highly complex situations based on highly complex information and judgements.
  • Ability to provide highly specialised advice on the use of medical IT systems for patient diagnosis, management and treatment, for routine care and when planning and implementing a research programme.
  • Ability to write complex programs in a variety of high level languages such as C++ and VB
  • Ability to develop and support complex database applications using SQL server

  Desirable

  • Ability to manage networks of Unix and Windows server and client computer systems

  Communication

  Essential

  • Able to produce clear and unambiguous written reports, guidance, policies, procedures and business cases which can be understood by staff and stakeholders from a variety of professions.
  • Able to communicate risk associated with cyber security and data management in a clear manner to persons with no specialist knowledge, including clinicians, managers and external stakeholders.
  • Able to communicate highly complex information at postgraduate level to other professional groups.
  • Able to present scientific papers at national and international conferences.
  • Able to train groups of other professional staff.
  • Able to deliver teaching and training on complex subjects.
  • Ability to present information effectively to senior clinicians and Trust managers.
  • Ability to chair meetings effectively.
  • Able to deal with complex and unpredictable situations.
  • Ability to negotiate solutions to problems where conflicting views exist.

  Managerial Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Ability to manage and develop staff effectively and sympathetically, to lead a multi-disciplinary team and to prioritise the workload of others.
  • Able to motivate staff and inspire confidence.
  • Able to manage change and introduce new technologies and working practices.
  • Able to implement policies and procedures in own work and to advise on policy and procedure review, development and implementation in services provided by others
  • Able to assess impact of policy / procedure changes on safety and service provision.
  • Ability to take and articulate a strategic view of the programme of work on data science and programming.

  Specific Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Able to exercise initiative to solve highly complex problems independently and with confidence when dealing with issues within own specialist area of competence.
  • Able to prioritise and manage own time and workload under pressure.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Able to understand contracts and produce agreements to provide services.
  • Great attention to detail.
  • Commitment to develop and communicate the contribution of clinical scientific computing to healthcare and a vision of how to further realise benefits in this field.
  • Ability to use computer software at an advanced level to gather, organise and process information.
  • Record of presenting work at scientific meetings.

  Desirable

  • Research / Development Track Record.

  Person Specification

  Knowledge and Qualifications

  Essential

  • 1st or 2nd class honours degree in computer science, a physical science, engineering, or equivalent
  • Relevant PhD or equivalent (MSc / MEng with additional specialist training or research experience)
  • State Registration as a Clinical Scientist / able to register within 3 years of appointment.
  • Corporate Membership of relevant professional institutes (eg IPEM, IET)
  • Evidence of training and development in Leadership & Management

  Desirable

  • Chartered Engineer or Chartered Scientist
  • Registered, or eligible to register, as a Higher Specialist Scientist with the Academy for Healthcare Science

  Scientific & Technical

  Essential

  • Advanced knowledge across the full range of working procedures and practices in clinical scientific computing including relevant legislation, national and international standards, NHS policy, and professional and other guidelines.
  • Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices (including issue tracking, testing, documentation, version control and continuous integration) that enable the delivery of reliable, sustainable and trustworthy outputs
  • Expert knowledge of statistics and mathematics applied to acquiring reliable insight from data.
  • Advanced knowledge of computer hardware and software at both operating system and application level and also of medical device IT systems.
  • Broad knowledge of architecture, configuration, security and performance management of networks using TCP/IP protocols
  • Broad knowledge of security issues associated with computer systems within the Trust, NHS and health sector, and the measures required to address these.
  • Broad knowledge of data management, including storage, archive, backup and data publication technologies
  • Broad knowledge of medical devices and of other areas of medical physics and clinical engineering practice and procedure.

  Clinical Knowledge

  Essential

  • Knowledge of clinical practice and the implications for clinical scientific computing.
  • Basic knowledge of relevant anatomy, physiology and pathology.
  • Advanced understanding of the potential risks to patients, staff and organisations arising from system failure, human error and clinical scientific computing practice
  • Advanced knowledge and understanding of quality and risk management as they apply to clinical scientific computing.

  Managerial

  Essential

  • Knowledge of good people management practice including recruitment, performance and disciplinary policy.
  • Understanding of quality and performance management and their application to a clinical scientific computing service.

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of financial matters relating to service costings and income management, including full costs recovery and rules for VAT charging.

  Scientific & Technical

  Essential

  • Significant experience of a scientific healthcare environment
  • Experience of managing computer operating systems especially Unix and Windows
  • Experience of a wide variety of computing systems and application packages
  • Experience of managing IT systems in a clinical environment
  • Experience of managing high value, high profile, IT projects
  • Experience with the core tools of data science and analytics, in a programmatic framework such as R, Python, or Julia
  • Experience with at least one specialist technique or tool in data analytics, such as natural language processing, neural networks, Bayesian inference, Gaussian processes.
  • Experience with the authorship, development, testing and maintenance of software for clinical research & development. This might include (but is not limited to) software supporting data processing and statistical analysis, image analysis tools, front- and back-end web development, mobile apps, high-performance simulation software, or mathematical software.
  • Experience of programming both applications and systems
  • Experience in the supervision of research and development work.
  • Experience with at least one programming language used for research (such as C, C++, Fortran, Javascript, Julia, Python, or R) at a level and breadth commensurate with seniority

  Desirable

  • Experience of holding grants and supervising research workers.

  Managerial experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience of providing services in a scientific healthcare environment.
  • Experience of people management, including staff appraisal.
  • Experience of managing resources and project budgets.

  Desirable

  • Experience of identifying service development opportunities and progressing business plans.
  • Experience of involvement in national committees relating to science in healthcare.

  Scientific & Clinical - Skills and abilities

  Essential

  • Ability to apply knowledge and experience in making judgements regarding the safe and optimal configuration and use of medical IT systems, involving objective assessment of benefits and risks associated with the available options.
  • Ability to perform options appraisals in highly complex situations based on highly complex information and judgements.
  • Ability to provide highly specialised advice on the use of medical IT systems for patient diagnosis, management and treatment, for routine care and when planning and implementing a research programme.
  • Ability to write complex programs in a variety of high level languages such as C++ and VB
  • Ability to develop and support complex database applications using SQL server

  Desirable

  • Ability to manage networks of Unix and Windows server and client computer systems

  Communication

  Essential

  • Able to produce clear and unambiguous written reports, guidance, policies, procedures and business cases which can be understood by staff and stakeholders from a variety of professions.
  • Able to communicate risk associated with cyber security and data management in a clear manner to persons with no specialist knowledge, including clinicians, managers and external stakeholders.
  • Able to communicate highly complex information at postgraduate level to other professional groups.
  • Able to present scientific papers at national and international conferences.
  • Able to train groups of other professional staff.
  • Able to deliver teaching and training on complex subjects.
  • Ability to present information effectively to senior clinicians and Trust managers.
  • Ability to chair meetings effectively.
  • Able to deal with complex and unpredictable situations.
  • Ability to negotiate solutions to problems where conflicting views exist.

  Managerial Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Ability to manage and develop staff effectively and sympathetically, to lead a multi-disciplinary team and to prioritise the workload of others.
  • Able to motivate staff and inspire confidence.
  • Able to manage change and introduce new technologies and working practices.
  • Able to implement policies and procedures in own work and to advise on policy and procedure review, development and implementation in services provided by others
  • Able to assess impact of policy / procedure changes on safety and service provision.
  • Ability to take and articulate a strategic view of the programme of work on data science and programming.

  Specific Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Able to exercise initiative to solve highly complex problems independently and with confidence when dealing with issues within own specialist area of competence.
  • Able to prioritise and manage own time and workload under pressure.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Able to understand contracts and produce agreements to provide services.
  • Great attention to detail.
  • Commitment to develop and communicate the contribution of clinical scientific computing to healthcare and a vision of how to further realise benefits in this field.
  • Ability to use computer software at an advanced level to gather, organise and process information.
  • Record of presenting work at scientific meetings.

  Desirable

  • Research / Development Track Record.

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  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

  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, University College London Hospital

  25 Grafton Way

  London

  WC1E 6DB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.uclh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, University College London Hospital

  25 Grafton Way

  London

  WC1E 6DB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.uclh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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