EPS/116/05 CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW(S)
EPS/117/05 eSCIENCE / GRID DEVELOPER/ARCHITECT(S)
Clinical research fellows and E-Science Grid developer / architects are required for the CLEF-Services project. Up to three posts are available of which at least one will be clinical and one technical.
Manchester is a leading (5*) development centre for E-Research and E-Science, Health Informatics, knowledge representation, ontologies and tools. The successful applicants will join a growing research and development team focused on clinical systems as part of a large research team on E-Science, Grids, Web Services, the Semantic Web, and related technologies. We are seeking a balance of skills to extend and develop that team.
CLEF (2002 -2005) and CLEF-Services (2005 -2007) are two of the flagship E-Research projects funded by the Medical Research Council as part of the UK E-Science Programme.
CLEF seeks to build on Semantic Web/Grid technologies to develop a safe, generic, high quality and interoperable information repository, derived from operational Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) systems. It aims to make these facilities available in user-friendly environments that support both clinical care and biomedical research, meeting the needs of patients, clinical professionals, biomedical scientists and clinical researchers. CLEF is also developing privacy and confidentiality policies and software to make such work ethically acceptable. CLEF focuses primarily on cancer, but is aiming for a generic set of tools that may be applied across all clinical specialties. The project will interact closely with a second MRC funded E-Science project in Manchester, PsyGrid, which is developing complementary facilities in mental health research and which includes a strong statistical and analytical component on which CLEF will draw.
Manchester's key roles are: a) to develop the CLEF "chronicle" - our representation of our best understanding of the patient from the combination of the EHR and information extracted automatically from reports and letters; b) to develop the CLEF Workbench, a web portal framework for use by clinical researchers to access and analyse a large number of chronicles and records.
The project include leading research teams from universities across the UK. The Universities of Sheffield and Brighton work mainly on language engineering - development of information extraction from text and the use of language generation in user interfaces respectively. UCL works primarily on the development Electronic Health Records and the CLEF information repository, and has a long established link with standards organizations and the OpenEHRfoundation . The University of Manchester work includes the development of web-services/Grid enabled services building on the foundation established by the myGrid project. It will develop the framework for the secure clinical researchers' workbench that will act as a web-services/Grid enabled framework to provide one point of access to clinical research and analytical services.
The work involves a multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners throughout Europe and beyond. The successful candidates will need to be happy working closely with other developers and be able to respond quickly to users of the software who come from different background. Opportunities for training and to register for a further degree if appropriate are available. The project runs formally until the end of 2007 and will be seeking longer term funding.
All posts are for up to 2 years in the first instance. Salary will be in the range: up to £27,483 to £40,053 for clinical fellow(s) (if eligible for clinical scales) and £21,640 to £35,883 per annum for the technical post(s).
Potential applicants are encouraged to get in touch and discuss the posts, or visit informally. Informal enquiries may be made in the first instance to Dr. Amanda Hughes Tel: +44 (0)161 275 1128; Fax: +44 (0)161 275 5145; email: amanda.hughes@...
Application forms are available here or from http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html or by post from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): +44 (0)161 275 7889; e-mail: Eps-hr@... .
Closing Date: June 6th 2005
For further information please see http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html or www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig.
All applications must include the specific job reference numbers:
EPS/116/05 for the clinical post
EPS/117/05 for the technical post
Please consult http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html for further details.
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Additional information for applicants from outside the UK
The University welcomes applicants from abroad.
Candidates from within the EU do not need work permits. Candidates from outside the EU do require work permits, but the Department will help with arrangements and has rarely experienced difficulties over candidates appointed in open competition.
AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER THE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER OR DISABILITY. |
Person Specification: Clinical Fellow(s)
Overview: Clinical trained in medicine or an allied discipline, and with knowledge of health informatics, this person will design and develop clinical knowledge representations, metadata, and workstations
Essential
- Have a clinical qualification in medicine or an allied discipline.
- Solid understanding of clinical and pathological processes
- The analytic ability to represent this understanding systematically
- Understanding of current genetic and post genome clinical research, preferably in the realm of Cancer.
- Willingness to work flexibly in a multidisciplinary team in which roles may evolve, tasks may be changed, and collaborate with other remote teams that may require travel.
- The ability to acquire new skills quickly
- Good communication and presentation skills
Desirable
- Have a post graduate qualification and/or experience in health informatics or a related area of information/computing development.
- Experience in writing academic papers and developing research proposals
- Software skills an advantage
Person Specification: Developer(s)
Overview: A graduate/postgraduate to develop grid-enabled software services for medical knowledge representation and secure clinical research web portals.
Essential
- Possess a graduate or (preferably) postgraduate degree in computer science or relevant area.
- Advanced understanding of object-oriented programming and strong skills in software engineering, preferably in JAVA
- Experience of all stages of software application development, from requirements analysis, through design, coding, testing and documentation
- Willingness to work flexibly in a multidisciplinary team in which roles may evolve, tasks may be changed, and collaborate with other remote teams that may require travel.
- Ability to work in a rapid prototyping and/or experimental environment.
Desirable
- Experience in developing web services and/or grid-enabled software applications is highly desirable.
- Experience in developing software applications that involve the integration or development of web portals
- Experience of HCI and/or Knowledge Representation techniques an advantage.
- Biomedical knowledge is an advantage - most of the content will be biomedical and understanding the content will help.
- Experience in writing academic papers and developing research proposals
- Good communication and presentation skills
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