Postdoctoral Research Associate

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to manage and analyze complex data as part of a multidisciplinary team. This role involves integrating data and using advanced analytics and AI-based approaches. Candidates should have relevant master's and PhD qualifications, along with experience in research or data sciences. The position offers a salary between £46,419 and £55,046 per annum and recognizes the benefits of flexible working.

Qualifications

• Experience in research or data sciences with complex data analysis.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and manage collected data for analysis.
• Conduct predictive modeling using AI-based approaches.
• Work closely with a Trusted Research Environment Provider.

Skills

Advanced skills in UNIX/Linux environment

Scripting in Perl, Python, or BASH

Predictive modeling and machine learning

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Time management and organisational skills

Understanding of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Education

Masters in relevant fields

PhD in relevant fields

Tools

Relational databases and SQL

Job description

Go back University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Postdoctoral Research Associate

The closing date is 18 August 2025

We are seeking experienced and motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on Professors Sen and Sofat's MRC funded work as part of the CAPE (Consortium Against Pain inEquality project). Professor Sofat leads a multi-disciplinary team of clinical, data and discovery scientists working in the field of medicine and therapeutics within the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics based in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at Liverpool University. Professor Sen is based at UCLH and has built a cohort of children and young people with rheumatic diseases including inflammatory arthritis from whom study subjects have been recruited and where a clinical database and biological samples are held.

FTC for 12 months at Band 6

Main duties of the job

The aim of this one year post will be to integrate and manage the data that have been collected as part of the cohort to date. This post will also work closely with a Trusted Research Environment Provider to move the data and link it to other study level data and eventually to routine NHS data. In addition analyses from the data collected to date as well as emerging analyses from measures taken during the time period will be within the remit of this post, and applying standard statistical techniques with the opportunity of advanced analytics across multi-modal data as they emerge e.g. muliti-omics, imaging and wearables.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit: Flexible working.

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Masters in epidemiology, statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, data science or other relevant areas (or other equivalent qualification)
• PhD in epidemiology, statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, data science or other relevant areas (or other equivalent qualification)

Experience

• Experience and demonstrable success in research and or data sciences regardless of background experience (i.e. does not have to have health data background), but does need experience of complex data analysis

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced skills in developing and implementing analysis within a UNIX/ Linux environment and scripting in at least one coding language (e.g. Perl, Python, BASH)
• To conduct predictive modelling using AI-based approaches, including advanced machine learning Advanced skills in relational databases and SQL or similar language(s)

Communication

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

Personal and People Development

• Excellent time management and organisational skills and ability to make deadlines, producing high quality work with attention to detail
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/ administration processes.

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

• Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties (line managers to elaborate depending on the level of the post and to assess this essential criteria at interview)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£46,419 to £55,046 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS