Biobank Senior Data Analyst

at  Kings College London

Job id: 090327. Salary: £43,205 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 03 June 2024. Closing date: 16 June 2024.
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
Contact details: Dr Cheryl Gillett. Cheryl.gillett@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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About us
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Analyst to manage the KHP Cancer Biobank LabVantage system, which holds sample-related data from more than 45,000 cancer patients attending Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust. The KHP Cancer Biobank is an extensive sample and data resource that supports local, national and international research. There is close integration with other databases and collaboration with core IT staff, academic and commercial researchers.
The LabVantage system needs to be adaptable to reflect clinical practice whilst retaining a formal change control procedure to meet quality management requirements. Hence, customisation and development is ongoing to meet the needs.
The post is based within KHP Cancer Biobank, part of the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
About the role
The successful candidate will manage the KHP Cancer Biobank LabVantage database and data integration with other clinical and research data sources at both King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust. Initially, the postholder will be responsible for configuring and importing the existing Head and Neck Cancer Biobank data into LabVantage and to work closely with the clinical data teams to ensure output can be combined for subsequent research use.
The Data Analyst will need to configure LabVantage to enhance functionality as required, to reflect changes in clinical service and sample collection. They will interact with central, clinical and research IT teams and other cancer-related data analysts to provide a reliable and reactive database service to the Cancer Biobank and its users. As the role interfaces with both clinical and research data, there is a robust approach to information governance and security, with defined data transfer pathways.
The role will require communication of complex information, which may be to staff, students or external parties with limited IT knowledge. Likewise, the postholder may need to interpret clinical data requirements into a database solution.
The postholder will be expected to keep abreast of comparable systems, identify any potential shortfalls and be able to make a justifiable business case for future development.
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an fixed term contract for one year.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Degree, HND, NVQ 4 qualified or equivalent in relevant subject/relevant formal training, plus relevant experience in similar or related roles. Or, Significant vocational experience, demonstrating development through involvement in a series of progressively more demanding relevant work/roles, and the acquisition of appropriate professional or specialist knowledge.
• Previous experience of configuring and using LIMs software.
• Knowledge of JBoss, Java applications and Jasper Reporting.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to analyse, summarise and present data to a non-specialist audience.
• Knowledge of clinical research process, information governance and information security.

Desirable criteria

• Proficient in at least one programming languages.
• Experience of maintaining database and manipulating data.
• Data-related position within the NHS.

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required, can be found in the attached job description which provided on the next page.
Further information
This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances.
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Please refer the Job description for details