Medical Imaging Software Developer

at  University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.
Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Southern Health FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, Solent NHS Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
Join our dynamic Scientific Computing team within Imaging Physics at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) as an experienced Software Developer. In this exciting role, you will focus on developing and supporting imaging research data management systems and creating software as a medical device under our ISO13485-certified quality management system.
We are looking for a candidate with a background in scientific computing, physics, or engineering, equipped with a relevant degree and proven skills in informatics and computing. Your strong programming abilities and experience across the software development lifecycle will be essential.
As part of our friendly and expanding team of healthcare computer scientists and clinical scientists, you’ll contribute to developing bespoke scientific software for clinical and research applications, primarily using imaging data from multiple modalities. You will also play a key role in the UHS Medical Device Software Group (MDSG), advancing medical device software development within a rigorous quality framework.
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
Specific to this role is the suitability for agile working which is a mixture of on-site and remote working. In addition, we are open to discussing flexibility in the hours that you work. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need, and we will explore what’s possible for the role and service. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.

As a vital member of our team, you will support, develop, and sometimes lead our computing projects and services, with a particular focus on developing, maintaining and supporting our Imaging Research data management software, to support research utilising Nuclear Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, CT and planar X-ray clinical imaging data. You will also help us to continuously develop and improve our expanding suite of in-house medical diagnostics software, working under the relevant standards and documenting development within our ISO13485-certified QMS. In addition, you will have the opportunity to contribute to advancing our research in Clinical Scientific Computing.
You will join our development team, who use a variety of languages including Python, IDL, MATLAB, and Swift, and work with multiple platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Examples, of our recent clinical software outputs include an automated dementia-imaging reporting tool for HMPAO SPECT data, an iOS application for calculating paediatric drug doses and a statistical reporting tool for neonatal & infant MR spectroscopy data. See our website for more details: https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/health-professionals/medical-physics/scientific-computing
As part of our team, you will primarily continue to develop and improve our research imaging data management processes, with a strong focus on automation. The service is currently supported by in-house Python software for image retrieval, pre-processing and verification, and deployments of XNAT and PostgreSQL on Linux VMs onsite and on Azure, to provide researchers with managed access to curated medical imaging data.
In addition to focussing on development, you’ll be comfortable communicating and building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, for example, our local imaging research groups, including the Research Imaging Management Group (RIMG) and Southampton Imaging and Radiology Research Group (SIRRG), as well as external academic collaborators. Our data curation helps researchers understand their imaging data, ensuring research teams have access to high-quality data and that, where appropriate, data is in a form that can be safely shared with other teams and systems, such as Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and Secure Data Environments (SEDs). You’ll contribute to enhancing our strong working relationships with other groups including UHS Digital, computing groups at the University of Southampton, R&D hubs, such as the Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and researchers within active specialities such as neurology, oncology and radiology.