Overview:
Job Title: Assistant Health Informatician
Contract: Permanent (full- time)
Salary: £39,541 (per annum)
Location: BMA House, London - UK (Hybrid)
Application Closing Date: Monday 10th April 2023
The leading healthcare knowledge provider BMJ, has an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Health Informatician to join a talented and friendly department. The successful candidate will work on BMJ products and projects including BMJ Best Practice, our award-winning online clinical decision support tool for doctors and other healthcare professionals. They will play a significant role in enabling the intelligent application of our clinical decision support content. BMJ Best Practice provides the latest evidence-based information to underpin diagnosis and treatment decisions across more than 1,000 medical conditions and symptom presentations.
The ideal candidate will have experience of clinical terminologies covering diseases, and medication in order to support BMJ with the integration of decision support recommendations into the clinical workflow. They will have both an interest in evidence based content and in describing it with metadata so that relevant clinical recommendations are available when needed.
Responsibilities:
- You will be involved in updating and editing clinical content metadata to ensure it remains safe, accurate and consistent with the latest editions of clinical standards such as SNOMED-CT and ICD10.
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You will liaise with internal clinician and scientific editors to ensure appropriate quality assurance of new and updated metadata.
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You will work within the Health Informatics Team and more broadly with content editors and technical developers to ensure our products and services can meaningfully integrate into clinical practice.
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You will reshape and extend metadata and clinical coding to enable innovative and compelling functionality for our target audiences.
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You will assess the impact of new releases of standards and drug formularies and assist in updating our systems with the new data.
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You will develop reports, documentation and answer queries within the department about the degree of metadata and clinical coding associated with specific aspects of content
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You may be required to present our metadata capabilities and the functionality it enables to customers and at external meetings
Qualifications:
Key skills
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Ability to work independently, editing clinical content metadata and checking it against clinical standards and the accepted clinical definitions of terms; making judgements on how to apply metadata appropriately.
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The confidence to liaise with clinical and scientific editors and information specialists, posing questions and seeking answers to highly specific queries to ensure the metadata is clinically accurate.
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Exceptional attention to detail.
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Ability to adapt to new digital systems, and actively seek innovative technology based approaches
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Ability to enhance and learn new technical skills to manipulate data and metadata. Some technical experience in data in formats such as XML,CSV or JSON and using scripting languages such as python would be an advantage.
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The ability to work effectively as part of a small team
Qualifications
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Educated to degree level in Health Services Research, Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine or equivalent professional experience.
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An advantage to have a postgraduate qualification in Health Informatics or equivalent professional experience.
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Preferably some experience in a health informatics focussed role manipulating data and metadata for the healthcare or life science sector.
Why should you apply?
BMJ is a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world. We share knowledge and expertise to improve healthcare outcomes.
You may know us as the publisher of one of the world’s most cited general medical journals, The BMJ. We also publish over 70 specialty journals, many of which are the most influential titles in their field.
We also offer digital professional development courses and clinical decision support tools to help medical institutions and clinicians tackle today’s most critical healthcare challenges.
Evidence underpins everything we do – it’s what makes us one of the world’s most trusted knowledge providers. And the figures speak for themselves. More than 50 million users from over 150 countries access our websites every year.
BMJ is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association (BMA), with nearly 500 employees worldwide. Our head office is located within the Grade II listed BMA House in Euston, London, with more offices in China, India, North America, and Wales.
At BMJ we take equal opportunities very seriously; diversity and inclusion are more than just words, they are an organisational priority. We are building a culture where everyone feels able to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We encourage applications from under-represented groups and we are a Disability Confident Committed employer.
You will be able to join any of our employee-led networks focusing on: Gender, Cultural Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Mental Health and Well-being, Parents and Carers, and Age.
We offer flexible work arrangements to all our employees.
Those who come to work with us are assured of a rewarding career in an increasingly global company. In return, we offer a great place to work with a wide range of benefits, including:
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Twenty-five days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, a BMA Day and the opportunity to gain more holiday entitlement through long service employment
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Additional days’ leave for moving house, volunteering or getting married
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Onsite gym, fitness classes and subsidised canteen and cafeteria
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Double matching employer pension contribution, up to 12%
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Multiple discounts through MyReward employee benefits platform.
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Season ticket loan, gym membership and cycle to work scheme
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Seven times salary life assurance cover
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Regular social events, diversity and inclusion groups, and charity fundraising initiatives to get involved in