Overview
The NHS Respiratory Metagenomics Programme aims to introduce clinical metagenomic services in the NHS, with implementation underway in a growing national network of up to 30 NHS Trusts by 2028. It is a partnership between the NHS, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) to embed pathogen-agnostic metagenomic testing in NHS microbiology labs and ICUs by 2029. The programme is led by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and focuses on accelerating diagnostics and providing real-time data for national pathogen surveillance.
Role Summary
The Data Analyst will be a core member of the evaluation team, working with senior leadership to shape the analytical strategy and generate insights from large-scale genomic and health data. They will provide insights to support decision making across a national network of laboratories and hospitals and shape the future commissioning of the service.
Responsibilities
- Use advanced analytical techniques to inform service and technology evaluation and future commissioning.
- Define dataset requirements, design data collection, drive access, and implement analytical solutions.
- Develop and maintain code to support data-driven decisions and robust evaluation of the implementation, effectiveness, utility and benefits of metagenomics in microbiology services.
- Work with complex clinical data across a range of EHR/LIMS systems to generate datasets and monitor agreed evaluation metrics over time against programme milestones.
- Collate data submissions, perform data cleansing and validation to improve quality, and present performance dashboards.
- Liaise with clinical, scientific, and operational colleagues within the programme team and across the UK, including NHS, UKHSA and academic partners.
- Have the opportunity to work across other genomic service improvement programmes hosted at GSTT, collaborating with the Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research and the South East Genomic Medicine Service.
Collaboration
The analyst will work closely with a range of clinical, scientific and operational colleagues within the programme team and across the UK, including NHS, UKHSA, and academic partners. Additional collaboration occurs across other genomic service improvement programmes hosted at GSTT and the South East Genomic Medicine Service.
Context
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is leading this national programme on behalf of the NHS, implementing the initial use case in respiratory infection and leading on translational research efforts. The programme serves as a test bed for accelerated adoption of innovation in healthcare and a proof of concept for a real-time pathogen surveillance system.
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