# Home Healthcare Optimisation Engineer – KTP Associate

UE07: £41,885 - £49,798 per annum CSE / School of Mathematics / Oran Homecare Ltd. Full-time: 35 hours per week Fixed term: 24 months Primarily based at Oran Homecare Ltd.’s offices in Kirkcaldy The University of Edinburgh and Oran Homecare Ltd. have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funded by Innovate UK to develop and implement a robust, flexible, and scalable routing and scheduling tool for optimising home health care services. The goal is to replace the highly manual, constraint heavy scheduling processes with a configurable in-house system capable of supporting diverse planning restrictions and goals within Oran Homecare Ltd. as well as across the sector. This is an innovation project which will draw on the knowledge and expertise of the KTP Associate working together with Dr Jörg Kalcsics in the School of Mathematics and Dr James Richings in the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. Oran Homecare Ltd. is an award-winning provider of Care at Home, Hospital Discharge and Assisted Living services throughout Scotland. Their mission is to raise the standards of care throughout the UK. Oran has a track record of innovating in partnership with other bodies throughou

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- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Work mode**: hybrid
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- **Locations**: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
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- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
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- **Industries**: Higher Education, Quantum Science & Computing

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- **Name**: Quantum Software Lab
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- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

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