IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Data Manager (SM084-13)
Department:
Primary Care and Public Health
School:
Public Health
Job Family/Level:
Professional Services, Level 3b
Salary Range:
£32,930 - £40,720 per annum
Responsible to:
Dr Paul Aylin, Work-stream Lead
Professor Alison Holmes, Work-stream lead/Co-director
CIPM
Works closely with:
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Business
Intelligence Unit
Dr Lydia Drumright, CIPM Lecturer
Dr Laura Garcia Alvarez, Research Associate
Dr Andre Charlett and Professor Mike Catchpole, Public
Health England
Dr Georgious Ketsetzis, ICHT Epidemiology and Information
Unit
Sid Mookerjee, ICHT Epidemiology and Information Unit
Ms Alexandra Haighton, Department Manager, Department
of Primary Care and Public Health; Ms Juliet Allibone/Sara
Yadav, Head of Operations CIPM
CIPM Collaborators in Imperial College London, Dr Foster
Intelligence, the NHS, the HPA and elsewhere
Contract:
Full time and fixed term up to 31 August 2014
Location:
Charing Cross Campus, Hammersmith
Hammersmith Campus, White City
Infection is a major theme at Imperial College London and there is an outstanding
track record of research in this area. The coming together of Imperial College London
and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust into the UK’s first Academic Health
Sciences Centre provides the unique environment in which to deliver the vision of
improving health systems and health care delivery to address the challenge of
Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI) and antibiotic resistance. This vision brings
together clinical, public health, academic and managerial expertise to drive forward
translational and applied research across secondary and primary care.
Job Context:
In 2008 Imperial College London was awarded one of two initial grants under the
UKCRC Translational Infection Research Initative. The award was to develop a
National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management (CIPM) to tackle the issue
of healthcare associated infection through a multidisciplinary programme of research
and teaching. The Centre is a close collaboration between Imperial College London,
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Health Protection Agency.
The Centre consists of 4 work-streams, innovation adoption and behaviour change, a
network in clinical infection, health surveillance across the healthcare enconomy and
capacity building through education.
This post supports the health surveillance programme of work.
Job Summary:
This post supports the health surveillance programme of work in work-stream 3 of
CIPM. This aims to develop and utilise infection surveillance schemes across whole
healthcare economy by finding novel uses for existing databases and developing
predictive models to identify individual at risk patients. This programme will
investigate information sources available and examine how data can be best used in
surveillance. It will explore issues around patient confidentiality, linkage, validation
and use of both internal databases and national datasets such as the mandatory
HCAI data reporting systems run by the HPA and other sources such as Hospital
Episode Statistics and mortality data and will result in a number of operational tools
for surveillance and management of healthcare associated infections. This role is
essential in supporting a range of projects within CIPM using such data.
An operational data-base and a research database have already been developed
bringing together large and complex datasets from across the Trust and driving a
massive expansion of the Trust Data Warehouse, as well as providing an invaluable
resource of data for research projects. The post-holder will be responsible for linking
additional data-sets to these databases and will continue to develop and optimise the
acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of this information for infection surveillance.
The post-holder will be required to work very closely with researchers and members
of the Trust Business Intelligence Unit and Infection Prevention Team including
clinical staff, in order to assess the information and knowledge needs of the service
and to further drive the novel use of these data-bases to enhance infection
surveillance. This may involve developing new reports and outputs for clinical use
including decision making and outbreak management.
The post-holder will carry out the analysis and interpretation of infection and risk
surveillance data and will also work with equivalent personnel at the HPA to conduct
similar work on national level data. The post-holder may also liaise with the
Education Manager developing training modules, databases and carrying out Quality
Assurance and Impact assessments of training.
Key Responsibilities:
Database development
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Planning the best format for databases
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Develop and implement databases
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Setup, develop, maintain and backup databases
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Develop complex algorithms to integrate different data sources and enable
creation of unique identifiers across all datasets
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Document databases (with others) including manuals and data dictionaries
and other meta-data essential for highly curated datasets
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Plan quality checks on data and undertake initial processing duplicate checks
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Data quality control (prevention and detection of errors) / cleaning
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Champion the acquisition and linkage of different datasets
Database Management
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Merging and preparation of datasets for statistical analysis
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Opening access for collaboration
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Ensuring proper security and governance of all data holdings demonstrating
compliance with Data Protection legislation, and other governance requirements
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Interact with the research group to prepare data for analyses and to guide their
statistical analyses
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Contribute to writing manuscripts for publication and presenting results
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Collaborate with other researchers to share and analyse data within the
databases
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Planning and organising a system of access to bespoke data subsets for analysis
by self and others.
Collaboration and Liaison
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To work closely with the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial and Dr Foster Intelligence in
relation to the use of their data
To work closely with members of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Epidemiology and Information Unit and Business Intelligence Unit
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To work closely with Professor Mike Catchpole, Dr Andre Charlett and other
members of the HPA in relation to the use of their existing datasets
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To provide any training, support or handover to CIPM collaborators to ensure
that databases are integrated and sustainable as appropriate
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To liaise with the HPA, Dr Foster Intelligence and other relative bodies in
relation to the project, representing the Centre at relevant internal and external
meetings
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Liaison with Patient Information Advisory Group and relevant governance bodies
in relation to data-sets
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Produce regular status reports and attend
teleconferences to discuss study progress
regular
meetings
and
Other
 To support and provide input to other CIPM research projects as appropriate
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To provide support and guidance to CIPM PhD students and other staff as
required
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To observe and comply with all College policies and regulations, including
the key policies and procedures on Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest, Data
Protection, Equal Opportunities, Financial Regulations, Health and Safety,
Imperial Expectations (for new leaders, managers and supervisors),
Information Technology, Private Engagements and Register of Interests, and
Smoking
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To undertake specific safety responsibilities relevant to individual roles, as
set out on the College Website Health and Safety Structure and
Responsibilities
page
(http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/safety/policies/organisationandarrangements)
The successful post holder will have an opportunity to:
 To assist in writing for publication
 To present at academic conferences
 To assist in the production of funding applications
 To undertake own research
 To participate in the academic life of the Centre including attending any research
seminars or research meetings as appropriate.
Job descriptions cannot be exhaustive and so the post holder may be required
to undertake other duties, which are broadly in line with the above key
responsibilities.
Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity and to eliminating
discrimination. All employees are expected to adhere to the principles set out
in our Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy, Promoting Race Equality
Policy and Disability Policy and all other relevant guidance/practice
frameworks.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications:
Essential
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1st degree in a numerate discipline or equivalent qualification and
experience
Desirable
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MSc or equivalent higher degree in an appropriate quantitative subject or
equivalent experience
Experience:
Essential
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Experience of advanced use of SQL for data extraction / creation of
stored procedures
Expertise in database management including proven experience of
analysing large, complex data sets
Experience in data analysis and presentation/visualisation
Experience in system design and user support
Experience with the use of data mining and analysis tools
Desirable
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Experience in the day to day management of windows servers and web
services
Prior data management experience in health informatics, epidemiological
or clinical trial research, biobanks, or electronic health records (e.g. in
primary care or hospital care)
Skills and Abilities:
Essential
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Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
Ability to work productively with researchers in different disciplines and
NHS Trust staff
Demonstrable organisational and time management skills
Ability to prioritise tasks and organise work effectively to meet deadlines
Ability to present findings effectively and give positive input to
discussions at meetings
Desirable
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Expertise in multivariate statistical analyses
Other:
Desirable
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Interest in research and a willingness to work with colleagues to develop
research questions and publish findings
APPLICATION GUIDANCE
Please read the person specification carefully and describe, as part of your
application, how much you feel you meet each of the criteria.
Thank you for your interest in this post. We look forward to receiving your application.