Senior Bioinformatician

**About the Role**

Our Theme’s overall vision is to accelerate the development of both laboratory and data-driven diagnostics that are rapid, accurate, pathogen-agnostic and personalised, in order to improve patient management (including avoiding unnecessary or ineffective antibiotics); hospital management, including infection control (reducing nosocomial transmission); and public health and population-level policy-making. This post is critical to experimental medicine research aiming to exploit genetic sequencing more effectively, through supporting the development of rapid, pathogen agnostic, culture-independent metagenomic diagnostics in combination with a team of wet-laboratory scientists, which could be high-throughput, would allow rapid identification of resistance to antibiotics (or antivirals), predict phenotype from genotype, and identify closely related strains suggestive of transmission/outbreaks (mediated through clonal spread [e.g.
_Staphylococcus capitis_,
_Clostridioides difficile_] and/or horizontal transfer [e.g. multi-drug resistant Enterobacterales]). The capacity to participate iteratively in the development of workflows and the need to deliver results for real-time diagnosis and infection prevention decision-making means that time-critical delivery is essential to this role.

The post is full time and fixed term for 2 years in the first instance.

**About the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine**

The Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine (NDM) is one of the largest departments of the University of Oxford and is part of the Medical Sciences Division, with responsibility for a significant part of the teaching of clinical students within the Medical School.

**What We Offer**

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ well-being and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

- Flexible working
- An excellent contributory pension scheme
- 38 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays)
- A comprehensive range of childcare services
- Family leave schemes
- Cycle loan scheme
- Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans

The University also runs a large number of social groups and sports clubs for those looking for more than just a great place to work.

**About You**

Applications are welcome from anyone with the right skills and interests, including those returning to work after career or other breaks. Part time working (minimum 80% FTE) would be considered, including requests to spread the hours over the week.

**Application process