Site Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub Town Seaton Delaval Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/03/2025 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you :
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
The Trust are recruiting an expert in SQL, to administrator, monitor, maintain, and assist development of the trusts in use SQL databases/instances, and help realise the deliverables and ambitions of the trusts digital strategy.
This role will join a Cloud Infrastructure team within Digital and Data Services, with the team responsible for all aspects of the trusts Cloud tenant and on site server equipment.
This role will be based in the recently re-furbished Seaton Delaval offices, and will benefit from part at home, and part in the office working pattern, to ensure priorities, objectives and team culture are achieved and maintained.
Main duties of the job
* Reporting to the Lead Technical Architect. You will have a trust wide level responsibility for the installation, implementation, maintenance, availability and development of SQL server instances.
* Responsible for both cloud SQL installations and on premise installations.
* Assess and make suggestions of improvement across all SQL instances.
* To be a key stakeholder and senior lead advisor in all SQL implementations, from either internal development or supplier 3rd party, installations.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Use high levels of expertise to research and plan the required technical SQL database solutions, in line with the trust's digital strategy, and implement to published and Trust guided best practices in your field of expertise.
* Design, document, implement and peer-approve the architecture setup for the trust's SQL infrastructure, both cloud native, cloud hosted and on-premises.
* Expert familiarity with on-premise and cloud-based SQL environments, such as Azure SQL, AWS RDS for SQL Server, and the Microsoft back office SQL current and legacy versions.
* Experience with high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions such as Always On Availability Groups, Clustering, Replication, Log Shipping, and Backup/Restore strategies for SQL.
* Responsibility for the effective management, data integrity and performance of the organisations reporting and SQL Server environments.
* Trust wide responsibility for Installing, configuration, and management of SQL Server databases in hosted, cloud and on-premise environments.
* Working closely across other teams throughout the trust to ensure any project work and SQL infrastructure changes are in the interest of all parties.
* Oversee and carry out reporting and data related requests as part of the BAU and individual project streams.
* Trust wide responsibility for defining the overall SQL structure and current systems platform architecture directly linked to the use of Microsoft SQL.
* Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect sensitive healthcare data in compliance with global data protection regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
* Collaborate with application developers to design database schemas, stored procedures, and functions. Provide support for database-related application development.
* Work closely with development teams to review and optimize SQL code, ensuring efficient data retrieval and minimizing performance issues.
* Set up and manage monitoring systems to proactively identify and address issues.
* Maintain comprehensive documentation of database configurations, processes, and procedures. Ensure documentation is up-to-date and accessible.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
* Educated to degree level or equivalent experience plus additional in depth specialist knowledge and expertise in IM&T, project management procedures and techniques.
* Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate
* Hands-on experience with API-based integrations and middleware
Experience and knowledge
* Proven experience with SQL Availability Clustering
* Proven experience as a SQL DBA, with a strong track record of managing mission-critical databases.
* Experience in a healthcare or telehealth organization
* Proven experience in working within regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, GDPR, or HITECH.
* Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
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