King's College London

About Us

The post is a member of team supporting the work of PharosAI. It is based in the Department of Precision & Population Oncology, which is part of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre in the School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciencse. The post is based on the Guy’s Campus embedded in the breast cancer molecular genetics group led by Professor Elinor Sawyer. 

About PharosAI

PharosAI is led by a team of researchers and clinicians from King’s, Queen Mary University of London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Barts Health NHS Trust and promises to transform cancer care by unlocking decades of NHS cancer and imaging data and integrating it with genomic and digital pathology data generated by the King’s Health Partners and Barts cancer biobanks. 

PharosAI will accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation AI models for cancer diagnosis and drug discovery, leading to faster and better-informed healthcare for UK cancer patients. PharosAI will revolutionise AI-powered cancer care, driving breakthrough therapies, clinical applications, addressing cancer’s social determinants, catalysing innovation and positioning the UK as a global leader in this dynamic ecosystem.

About The Role

Overview of the role

The Clinical Data Analyst is part of the breast cancer clinical database team which is led by Professor Elinor Sawyer. There are two other Clinicial Data Analysts in the breast cancer clinical database team, working closely with the wider breast cancer multidisciplinary clinical team. The Clinical Data Analysts are responsible for entering data for new breast cancer patients during the clinical multidisciplinary meetings and cleaning and curating historical data, drawing together different datasets to analyse disease patterns and outcomes. The breast cancer clinical database comprises approximately 18,000 patients diagnosed with breast cancer dating as far back as the 1970s and provides data for academic, commercial and service improvement studies and works closely with breast cancer KHP biobank.

This post is being developed to improve integration between the clinical database and the KHP Cancer Biobank database (led by Dr Cheryl Gillett) as part of PharosAI to link biobank samples to the patients’ up-to-date detailed clinical data. The Data Analyst will need to work with both the Biobank and Clinical Databases to enhance and develop functionality of the databases 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 PharosAI.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

1. Undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in relevant subject/ plus relevant experience in similar or related posts 
2. Experience of clinical database maintenance and management 
3. Advanced in data manipulation techniques using statistical packages 
4. Experience of extracting data from electronic records 
5. Excellent spoken and written communication skills with the ability to present data analysis and interpretation in a clear and precise way 
6. Strong interpersonal and influencing/behavioural skills to build a strong network to support the delivery of the service 
7. Knowledge of clinical research process, information governance and information security 

Desirable criteria

1. Postgraduate degree (Masters / PhD) in a relevant subject 
2. Experience of working with health data and seeking data extracts from NHS England 
3. Proficient in at least one programming languages 
4. A good understanding of patient pathways 
5. Experience with application of Natural Language Processing Models 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages. 

 Interviews are expected to be held in May. We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.