Clinical Bioinformatician

Site: Guy’s Hospital or King’s College Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £54,320 to £60,981 per annum depending on experience

Closing: 27/12/2024 23:59

The place to work in pathology

We are looking for top talent to join the UK’s leading and fastest growing pathology company – a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose.

Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.

Job overview

We are looking for several highly motivated Clinical Bioinformaticians to join our expanding Bioinformatics team at the South East Genomic Laboratory Hub (SEGLH). The posts will be based at either Guy’s Hospital or King’s College Hospital, but with a planned consolidation to a hub at Blackfriars.

The posts will be part of the team supporting the clinical diagnostics services of both Guy’s and King’s College Hospitals, covering several rare disease and cancer diagnostic laboratories. You would have the opportunity to develop and troubleshoot both somatic and germline pipelines, develop and manage applications supporting the diagnostic process and manage large datasets for reporting.

The successful applicant will be dedicated and enthusiastic with knowledge and experience of working with NGS pipelines and large datasets, as well as possessing strong programming and troubleshooting experience. Applicants should be good communicators, be able to take initiative, support continual quality improvement and prioritise workload. The role requires consistent attention to detail and excellent organisational skills.

Applicants will be expected to have attained or be working towards HCPC registration. STP trainees in their final year of training, or applicants with relevant MSc or PhD and bioinformatics experience, who are interested in transitioning to a clinical setting, are also encouraged to apply.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team which is highly valued in Synnovis Genomics. The successful candidate will support existing diagnostic services in the South East and also be involved in a very active programme of assay and technology development.

The role would involve maintaining and operating the bioinformatics pipelines for the processing of next generation sequencing data for both Guys and King’s College Hospitals, managing multiple pipelines supporting services for the Genomic Medicine Service.

The post-holders will work with other clinical scientists to support the development, validation and implementation of new/updated diagnostic tests. This will include developing and delivering validated and accredited software for delivery of diagnostic services following clinical best practice guidelines, as well as working with cloud-based infrastructure, local databases and the latest technologies to deliver bioinformatics services.

We support a flexible, hybrid working pattern. The posts will be based at Guy’s Hospital or King’s College Hospital, though occasional travel to other Synnovis sites, such as other trust sites may be requested.

Working for our organisation

Your development and learning

You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The Synnovis Way Development programme, the Scientific Learning and Development Fund and the Synnovis Academy through which you can receive funding/support for advanced qualifications.

Through our Innovation Accelerator Fund, you can apply for finance to get that new innovative scientific project off the ground, and participate with the wider scientific community through symposiums, conferences and other peer group meetings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners. A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London. For now, the job you are applying for will be based at one of our hospital sites. However, from 1 April 2024 our people and services will start to move to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests.

Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London.

The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services.

The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.

Person specification

Qualifications

• HCPC Registration (or working towards registration)
• BSc in bioinformatics, biological sciences or related field
• PhD in bioinformatics, biological sciences or related field

Experience

• Experience of analysing next generation sequence data
• Experience of developing, implementing and maintaining bioinformatic data analysis pipelines
• Developing cloud-based genomics apps, e.g. on AWS and DNAnexus
• Experience in scientific workflow languages for genomic pipelines (e.g. Nextflow)

Skills & Knowledge

• Ability to use scripting languages such as Python, Java and Bash
• Ability to troubleshoot and independently solve problems
• Demonstrable broad level understanding of molecular biology and human genetics.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. All applicants are welcome to apply regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

Our Bank workers enjoy competitive market rates and flexible contract assignments across all of our sites, dependent on your availability and location.

For our Permanent workforce we offer a competitive benefits package.

All employees are entitled to:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Please apply for this post on-line. If you have problems with using the online process, or need any assistance, please email recruitment@synnovis.co.uk

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Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

If you decide to apply for this post but do not hear back from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in Synnovis.

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