Clinical Analyst (MARS research project) - INTERNAL ONLY

The purpose of the post is to provide transcription and linguistic analysis for comparison with the new software. This will involve: working with video recording of personal stories told by people with aphasia; transcribing and analysing them following a protocol; supporting co-design/usability workshops where people with aphasia and clinicians trial the new technology; keeping systematic records. The post holder will work receive training, support and mentoring from the project team, as appropriate to the role. There are two posts available.

We are looking for a speech and language therapist with experience working with adults with post-stroke aphasia. The applicant should have strong analysis skills (as relevant to clinical practice), with a willingness refresh, improve, or learn new linguistic analysis skills (and their application to discourse) through training and use of the project protocols.

City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a 'health powerhouse' for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK's largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

This analyst post is part of the MARS project. In this project we are working with a technology company to explore the use of machine analysis software clinically, guided by the discourse analysis protocol created for the LUNA project (https://blogs.city.ac.uk/luna). There is the potential for huge time efficiencies using software and the potential for more discourse goals to be identified and targeted clinically. MARS will also explore software use with speech diversity (accent and speech disorders concurrent with aphasia).

City St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.