Job overview

UCLH is a leading healthcare provider committed to delivering world-class patient care, research, and education. We are seeking a skilled, experienced, organised and motivated computer scientist with excellent communication skills and a commitment to solution-focussed collaboration, to manage projects within the Systems and Infrastructure Programme of Work in the Clinical Scientific Computing Team within the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at UCLH.

As a Senior Computer Scientist within the Systems and Infrastructure Team, you will be responsible for efficiently and effectively managing projects across a range of clinical specialities, and for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and compliant computing solutions. You will bring energy and passion as you provide solution-focussed, operational leadership to project teams and as you collaborate with key clinical, scientific and technical stakeholders.  You will oversee the delivery of essential support to assigned clinical systems and infrastructure in BAU, working closely with the IT Analyst Team Lead.

You will have developed leadership skills, have a solid understanding of healthcare IT systems and infrastructure and established experience in clinical scientific computing project management and service delivery. You will be able to demonstrate how your excellent communication and interpersonal skills and your ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders delivers effective outcomes.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with the Systems & Infrastructure Lead for Clinical Scientific Computing as well as with clinical scientists and analysts within Clinical Scientific Computing and other members of staff within Medical Physics. You will develop strong and productive working relationships with clinicians, scientists and clinical managers and also with staff in UCLH Digital Healthcare Technology and their commercial partners.

We have significant commitments to support clinical services in Radiotherapy, Proton Beam Therapy, Nuclear Medicine, Sterile Services, Neurophysiology and Women’s Health but have a key role in implementing and managing systems that cover many other clinical areas.  You will be part of a specialist team providing some on-call support and extended hours support to Radiotherapy and Proton Beam Therapy.

You will use your organisational skills to manage projects involving multiple clinical, commercial and technical stakeholders, whilst also bringing your technical and scientific skills and your understanding of the regulatory requirements, risk and quality management to evaluate, specify, implement and manage clinical systems.

 

Working for our organisation

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.