1 Mabledon Place, WC1H 9AX
Up to £54,320 DOE
Job Title: Computational Biologist - 2 Years Fixed Term
Location: 1 Mabledon Place, WC1H 9AX
Salary range: Up to £54,320 DOE

ABOUT US:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)

*• No banding restrictions: *As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.

• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 23 days rising to 28 days after 5 years service
• Flexible working hours – 40 hours standard working wee

We are looking for an enthusiastic post-doctoral computational biologist to join a research group recently established in a joint venture between The UCL Cancer Institute and HSL Pathology Ltd, who provide laboratory diagnostic services to University College Hospitals and its partner NHS Trusts. This role is for two years fixed term.
The applicant will be based at the Halo Building in the heart of the Kings Cross Knowledge Quarter and will join a collaborative team of specialised HSL laboratory scientists and a UCL team led by Professor Tariq Enver, Dr Rajeev Gupta and Dr Sam Marguerat in The Cancer Institute. This is a new project studying biology of T-cell lymphomas using Spatial Transcriptomics.
The applicant will work alongside laboratory technical staff to generate and analyze a large Spatial Transcriptomics dataset of T cell Lymphoma clinical samples. In parallel, the project will involve the meta-analysis of a cohort high-dimension flow-cytometry datasets. Beside progressing understanding of the disease, the aim of the project will be to define new biomarkers of T cell lymphoma and explore the potential for Spatial technologies in the diagnostic space.
The post-holder will also work with the HSL molecular haematology diagnostic laboratory to develop bespoke pipelines for analyzing clinical exome sequencing and SNP-array data.

At Sonic Healthcare we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual performance related salary review

*• No banding restrictions: *As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.

• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 23 days rising to 28 days after 5 years service
• Flexible working hours – 40 hours standard working week

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.