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  • [Photo] Olivia Power • February 17, 2011

    BACKGROUND

    Applications are invited for the post of Systems Administrator/Bioinformatician to join the NIHR Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health (BRC-MH). The BRC-MH, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, undertakes translational research across 7 Disorder themes and 3 Cross-cutting themes. The BRC-MH recently secured a GBP 3m infrastructure grant from Trustees of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Guys and St Thomas' Trust (GSTT) Charity for a `Nucleus' of IT developments, bio-informatics and biostatistics to support a variety of strategically important BRC-MH research initiatives. The BRC-MH strategy includes the use of expression profiling, genomics, proteomics and other approaches to iden-tify biomarkers of progression, disease and treatment response and in further understanding mental illness.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    The successful candidate will administer the core Linux based IT infrastructure, which includes a High Performance Computing cluster, and contribute to the construction of a platform to enable integrated analysis across varied datasets. Therefore, as well as administering Linux systems and having experience with tools as Sun Grid Engine, s/he will need to be familiar with scripting languages, and RDMS such MySQL.

    REQUIREMENTS

    • Experience with Linux systems
    • Experience with tools as Sun Grid Engine
    • Familiarity with scripting languages, and RDMS such MySQL

    LOCALE

    NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health Nucleus, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London

    COMPENSATION

    Salary range GBP 33,070 pa to GBP 39,038 pa inclusive of London Allowance depending on experience.

    HOW TO APPLY

    Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Richard Dobson; Tel: +44(0) 20 3228 8563; Email: richard.j.dobson[at]kcl.ac.uk. Where applicants are short listed for interview, references will normally be taken up prior to interview. Applicants who do not wish any referees to be so contacted should make this explicitly clear on their application. We are unfortunately unable to reply to those applicants who have not been short listed and invited for interview. However, we would like to thank all candidates for their applications and for their interest in working for the BRC-MH at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

    To obtain further particulars, an application form and further information about the Institute, please see our website at http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/vacancies or alternatively email vacancies[at]iop.kcl.ac.uk. An application form including the names of two referees accompanied with a covering letter and an equal oppor-tunities statement should be emailed to vacancies[at]iop.kcl.ac.uk . CV's alone will not be accepted.

    Only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

    ARTICLE

    Please quote reference number 11/P05 in all correspondence.

    DEADLINE

    Closing date for applications: 08 March 2011

    POLICY

    Equality of opportunity is College policy

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