Job Description

Applications are invited for a Band 8A Senior Clinical Scientist in Artificial Intelligence (AI) post at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust for a fixed term of 12 months on a 2 days per week basis to support software development within the team.



You will join the Clinical Scientific Computing (CSC) team which consists of clinical scientists, AI engineers, data scientists, radiologists, clinicians, and programme managers, with close links to King's College London and nearby NHS Trusts. You will support the team in developing software and AI as a medical device, implementing bug fixes, merging pull requests and support the software engineering aspects of the work.



The postholder will support the team in developing and implementing a host of AI solutions to support patient care at the Trust. The postholder will have the opportunity to participate in every part of the software development lifecycle, work in multidisciplinary teams to design, develop and deliver digital solutions in the NHS. They will also be able to learn about different project management styles, attend international and national conferences, and help support a national educational programme in clinical AI.



This is an exciting opportunity for software engineers and AI developers who want to contribute to software used in the NHS and support the project delivery of the team.



The majority of the work is done remotely and the postholder must be able to work effectively under these conditions. The team works from an office one day per week and holds fortnightly workshops which must be attended in person in central London.



The CSC team at GSTT is a small team working together to improve access and quality of patient care at our Trust and throughout the NHS.



The team ethos is firmly grounded in a desire to improve the patient care provided by our NHS Trust and beyond. We're a highly dynamic team with a benevolent approach to proposed projects and ideas. While we do work remotely, we are a very unified team and meet often both socially and professionally, with regular post-work events and regular group lunches. There is an atmosphere of openness and collaboration.



We have a quality management system annually certified by the BSI to allow us to develop Software As a Medical Device, we have a machine learning operations created in-house which we use to train our models, and we have a deployment platform through which our AI applications are hosted and used. We have a DGX and associated server which we maintain within the team and use for machine learning purposes. We have a straightforward and robust way of accessing, analysing and cleaning data. With this combination of platforms we translate clinical research into clinical practice across many different departments.



The main purpose of this role is to support with the provision of Clinical Scientific Computing services at Guy's and St Thomas' Trust. The post-holder will work with the team two days a week in the capacity of a senior clinical scientist in AI and as such their main duties will comprise of a subset of the usual tasks of a senior clinical scientist in AI.



The main duties of the role is to support the project leads in development of software for clinical use, including software as a medical device (SaMD) and AI as a medical device (AIaMD). The role will involve facilitating and supporting test-driven development, CI/CD principles of software engineering, management of software updates and change. The role will also include the support of sysadmin activities on all of the team's servers (all Linux based).



The additional role of this post is the support and implementation of the team's quality management system (QMS). The role will include the support of training of colleagues in technical matters such as software engineering, software delivery lifecycle and bug fixes.



The postholder will work closely with the NLP lead, the AI Safety lead and the AI development lead, ensuring timely project delivery.