Senior Clinical Scientist

NHS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Band 8A Senior Clinical Scientist to support Clinical Scientific Computing services. Responsibilities include managing written communications, maintaining websites, and supervising trainees. This part-time role primarily offers remote work with in-person requirements for team meetings. Essential qualifications include a relevant degree and registration as a Clinical Scientist. A dynamic team environment is emphasized, focused on improving patient care through innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Good honours degree in a relevant subject.
• Completion of Scientist Training Programme or equivalent.
• State registration as a Clinical Scientist, achievable within acceptable timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Produce and publish written materials for the team’s work.
• Maintain websites and mailing lists.
• Manage stakeholder communications effectively.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of problems arising from system errors

Advanced specialist knowledge of techniques

Able to prioritise and manage own work

Effective communication within a team

Extensive experience of scientific writing

Education

Good (1st or Upper 2nd class) Honours degree in a relevant subject

Relevant MSc or equivalent

Completion of Scientist Training Programme in a relevant discipline

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

Job description

Job summary

Applications are invited for a Band 8A Senior Clinical Scientist post at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

The main purpose of this role is to support 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 and as such their main duties will comprise a subset of the usual tasks of a senior clinical scientist in AI.

Main duties of the job include supporting the team in effectively communicating the work via publishing written content, writing scientific papers, creating digital content for the team’s website, and publishing to mailing lists and newsletters. The postholder will maintain the team’s website and mailing lists. They will also play an active role in the delivery of the Scientific Training Programme (STP), supervising STP trainees in Clinical Scientific Computing and Clinical Informatics.

The majority of the work is done remotely. 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.

About us

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 patient care and is highly dynamic with a benevolent approach to proposed projects and ideas. While we work remotely, we are a very unified team and meet often both socially and professionally, with regular post-work events and group lunches. There is an atmosphere of openness and collaboration.

We have a quality management system annually certified by the BSI, a machine learning operations platform, and a deployment platform that hosts and uses our AI applications. We maintain a DGX and associated server for machine learning. We have robust ways of accessing, analysing, and cleaning data, enabling us to translate clinical research into practice across many departments.

Details

Date posted: 07 November 2025

Contract: Fixed term (12 months)

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 196-LIS10032D

Job locations: St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£64,156 to £71,148 a year per annum inc. H.C.A

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for producing and, where relevant, publishing written materials pertaining to the team’s work.
• Maintain websites and mailing lists.
• Manage stakeholders; effectively communicate and regularly engage with clinical and non-clinical staff, working in the best interest of patients and service users at GSTT.
• Work as part of a team and give and receive constructive feedback; concentrate on complex work for extended periods, maintaining high attention to detail and persistently troubleshooting when problems arise.
• Work independently, self‑motivated, and manage time productively.
• Operate under legislation and guidance regarding data handling, medical devices, and NHS IT acceptance and deployment; understand, explain, and raise alarm about relevant principles and risks.
• Support the delivery of training programmes, including the NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI and the Scientist Training Programme in Clinical Scientific Computing, Bioinformatics and Clinical Informatics.
• Help support the development of junior and temporary staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• Good (1st or Upper 2nd class) Honours degree in a relevant subject
• Relevant MSc or equivalent
• Completion of Scientist Training Programme in a relevant discipline, or equivalent

Qualifications (Desirable)

• Relevant PhD

Professional / Statutory Registration (Essential)

• State registration as a Clinical Scientist (gained or achievable within an acceptable timeframe)

Experience (Essential)

• Highly developed specialist knowledge across the full range of working procedures and practices in clinical scientific computing, building on theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
• Specialist training and practical experience with a wide range of clinical scientific computing systems and software.
• Previous experience of scientific publications.

Experience (Desirable)

• Previous research experience.
• Previous experience of maintaining written content publications.

Skills (Essential)

• Advanced knowledge of problems arising from system errors, equipment failure and clinical factors.
• Advanced specialist knowledge of techniques and clinical applications.
• Able to prioritise and manage own work.
• Able to exercise own initiative when dealing with issues within own specialist area of competence and within broader areas of clinical scientific computing.
• In depth understanding of relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines.
• Able to work and communicate effectively within a team.
• Able to use Excel, Word, Outlook etc to set up documents and spreadsheets and extract information.
• Extensive experience of scientific writing and non‑scientific writing for a lay audience.

Skills (Desirable)

• In-depth understanding of social media.
• Extensive experience in educational delivery at all levels.
• Demonstrable experience with editing and copywrite.
• Demonstrable experience with maintenance of websites.

Physical Requirements (Essential)

• Able to concentrate frequently when subject to unpredictable working patterns.
• Able to concentrate for prolonged periods.
• Able to deal with occasional distressing circumstances.

Additional Information (Essential)

• Able to effectively communicate highly complex information to a variety of stakeholders.
• Able to present scientific papers at national and international conferences.
• Able to develop and deliver teaching and training on complex subjects.
• Able to deal with complex and unpredictable situations.

Additional Information (Desirable)

• Experience of organising and delivering teaching and training to a multidisciplinary audience.
• Understanding of different formats of teaching delivery (e.g. summer schools, day‑long training, formal education).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit https://www.ukvisasandimmigration.gov.uk.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants at https://www.criminalrecordchecks.gov.uk.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see https://www.nhs.uk/careers.

Employer details

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH>

Employer’s website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx