Clinical Bioinformatician - (12 Month FTC)

Job Description

We are seeking a Clinical Bioinformatician who will support our efforts in connecting bioinformatics, product development and clinical users together in collaboration. 

This will involve different contributions and impact; ranging from subject matter expertise and exploratory data analysis to software testing and documentation preparation tailored to clinical users. 

Please note this role is based on a 12 month fixed term contract. 

Everyday responsibilities include:

• Analysing and understanding diverse data sets, such as those needed for testing software products for clinical users.
• Support the implementation of requirement analysis and end user-oriented tests
• Write high quality documentation tailored to end users.
• Prepare and provide training activities for clinical users and researchers. 

Skills and Experience for Success

We anticipate the ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in clinical research or health care in either cancer or rare diseases
• Proven track record in analysing large-scale genomic data using cutting-edge bioinformatics tools and reference databases.
• Strong background in human genetics and be proficient in Python and / or R for data analysis, including data wrangling and visualization.

MSc. degree or equivalent practical experience in academic or commercial settings

Salary from £48,500.

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

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Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor. 

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. 

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.