NLP Lead

Job summary

The South London & Maudsley (SLaM) Clinical Informatics Service is being set up to provide informatics capability to support clinical decision making in direct care. The service will use innovative data enrichment and modelling techniques developed by researchers and clinicians in the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and make these data entities available to frontline staff. The Clinical Informatics Service has recently been awarded funding over 2 years deploy the proof of concept into a fully operational service within SLaM.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated NLP Developer to work within the Clinical Informatics team, initially for a 2 year period. The post-holder will have experience of large-scale information systems, ideally in a healthcare environment, and familiarity with natural language processing.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will:

• Work with the wider BRC informatics team to deploy and develop Natural Language Processing applications to quantify various clinical entities.
• Develop pipelines, processes and documentation which support the full NLP app lifecycle; from development, through testing to deployment.
• Support the day-to-day running of NLP operational services.
• Work with clinical stakeholders to develop robust definitions of clinical entities and to pinpoint relevant textual source data, and with NLP testers to validate and improve app performance.
• Use annotation tools, and rule-based (Jape) and machine learning classification approaches where appropriate to develop new apps.
• Contribute to documentation of our NLP catalogue, ensuring that apps are used appropriately, for relevant cohorts and with full understanding of their underlying assumptions and limitations.
• Work with our technical team to design and implement infrastructure that supports incremental build of source data, daily NLP runs and usage of app output within dashboards.

About us

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

About the Location

The job will be based at the IoPPN Main Building, part of the wider Denmark Hill campus shared by SLaM and King's College London. The IoPPN main building is home to theInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Denmark Hill is very well connected and staff can reach Victoria or Blackfriars stations in 10 minutes by train, and East London is 25 minutes by overground.