Full time fixed contract for 2 years

Ref: 741

Grade 6: £26,391 to £29,704 per annum (pro rata)

Expected start date: 01/01/10

Applications are invited for a Software developer at the University of Sussex to join an interdisciplinary research team, which is developing methods for enhancing the utility of primary care electronic patient records for clinical and health services research. You will develop a database and interactive visualisation tools aimed at helping medical professionals to explore and inspect information on patient histories stored in electronic patient records. This will involve setting up the database and user-interface, and implementing prototypes for visualisation tools that will allow users to inspect and interrogate the records in an intuitive fashion.  Integrating textual and graphical summaries of the data will be an important part of this work.

Applicants should have excellent programming skills and experience in database development.

This post, which is part of a joint collaboration between the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, and the General Practice Research Database and University College London is funded by the Wellcome Trust under the Joint Initiative in Electronic Patient Records and Databases in Research  The candidate may be asked to travel to London several times a month to visit our partner organisations at the GPRD and UCL

Intending applicants are encouraged to discuss the position informally with Dr. Rosemary Tate. Email: r.tate@bsms.ac.uk, Tel: 01273 644562

Closing date for applications: 29^th November 2009

Interviews are expected to be in the week commencing 14^th December 2009

For full details and how to apply see:

www.sussex.ac.uk/jobs www.brighton.ac.uk/jobs www.bsms.ac.uk

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