Job Summary
The Centre of Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology and Rare Diseases (CIPPRD) provides whole-person medicine and integrated mental and physical health care using clinically
innovative interventions alongside patient involvement for children and young people with complex, severe, and treatment-resistant co-occurring neuropsychiatric disorders, and medical conditions including rare diseases.
This service provides highly specialist assessment, pharmacological and psychological treatment
for children with a variety of complex neuropsychiatric disorders. This is in the context of
neuroinflammatory, metabolic, genetic or neurodegenerative disorders and acquired brain injury;
psychotropic-induced side-effects and neuropsychiatric aspects in children with terminal illness.
Intervention is based on a bio-psycho-social approach, and digital therapeutics being a central part of routine care for all patients. We pride ourselves on being able to utilise innovative technologies to enhance clinical outcomes and achieve clinical excellence. This role will involve optimising our digital health platform for use with patients within our team in line with NHS standards and delivering high quality clinical analytics to enhance our clinical care.
Our service also includes the world’s first Centre for Rett Syndrome, a new service that provides neuropsychiatric services for Rett Syndrome patients across the life span.
Main duties of the job
CIPPRD is seeking to recruit to one full time Clinical Data Analyst to join the team on a permanent basis. The post holder will work closely with and under the guidance of the Head of Service & Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. The post holder will be working with another clinical data analyst, a computational analyst and a precision medicine research manager, alongside the rest of the clinical team including another full-time consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist, one full time consultant clinical psychologist, one full time specialist grade doctor, nine specialty doctors, and a highly specialist clinical psychologist. The team also has students and trainees from different disciplines and is well supported by our admin team.
To provide a clinical data analytics service within the structure of the CIPPRD to ensure that digital therapeutics form a central part of routine care for all patients in the service.
To take responsibility for coordinating and managing data systems and processes involved, to ensure maximal clinical utilisation of innovative digital health technologies, methodologies and systems to enable expert and excellent clinical care.
To provide high quality data analytics to enable service evaluation and development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First degree in a relevant area (e.g. psychology, bioinformatics, data science)
Desirable
- Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice, bioinformatics, or data science through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
- Experience in psycho physiological recording and digital health care.
- Experience in analysing clinical population datasets.
- Experience of data collection and data management in child and adolescent neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Experience in working and communicating with children with disabilities and their families.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and carrying out research projects.
- Experience in working and communicating with children with disabilities and their families.
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment.
- Knowledge of psychological and psychophysiological assessment and clinical psychometrics.
- Postgraduate or Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
- Knowledge of data management and advanced statistical software that have been applied to a relevant area.
- Excellent knowledge of qualitative and quantitative statistical skills.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
Skills
Essential
- To deliver clinical data analytics for psychophysiological and digital health assessment and therapeutics across cultural and other differences.
- To select and administer specialist clinical data analysis of psychophysiological and digital health assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
- Advanced computer skills, including all MS applications, the internet, online databases, and main platform of electronic data collection
- To be skilled in the administration of analytics tools and processes, including those that require complex manipulation and advanced data analysis.
- To communicate skillfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups, and for meetings such as case reviews.
- To plan allocation of tasks to students and trainees
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and data analysis interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
- Excellent organisational abilities and proven problem-solving skills
- Initiative and the ability to work independently, to prioritise and manage own work in response to deadlines
- Proven high level of accuracy in record keeping and data recording
- Ability to understand and interpret clinical trial data
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self.
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).
Closing Date: 11 March 2025
