Site Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub Town Seaton Delaval Salary per annum Closing 27/03/2025 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 Head of Data Platform role is pivotal at Northumbria as data is core to every operational element the Trust is responsible for. The team that you will lead is newly created with a largely blank canvas to allow you to build it how you see appropriate.
The Trust is committed to investing in the data platform and you will have access to the latest products and cloud hosted services to be able to achieve a best in class solution that will aggregate data from a multitude of sources and provide the analytical and development teams with the data feeds they require.
You will work closely with the Deputy Director of Digital Development and Data and two peers leading the Development and Analytics departments.
Main duties of the job
1. Define and execute the strategic vision for the data platform, aligning with business goals and objectives.
2. A strong understanding of AI/ML and how it can be applied to data to increase its value to end users.
3. Assess national and local data standards, ensuring that requirements are understood and compliance is monitored.
4. Provide specialist advice across the Trust relating to data standards, data collection, data recording and data quality.
5. Work closely with the Head of Data and Statistics to model and define data models and entities that conform to national standards where required.
6. Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable data architectures.
7. Provide technical leadership and understanding across all areas of the Data Platform.
8. Maintain and deliver data products and services to the business, making sure business requirements are met and delivered products/services are secure and reliable.
9. Manage and monitor 3rd party supplier integration and interfaces.
10. Establish appropriate tools, standards, and best practice ways of working in relation to the Data Platform.
11. Manage a team of data professionals and be responsible to foster a collaborative and innovative team culture where ideas can come within and demonstrate exemplar engagement with Trust staff outside the team.
12. Translate complex customer needs into tangible digital deliverables, plans and tasks balancing cost versus value.
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. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In summary, the post holder is professionally accountable for the Trust's internal Data Platform, the data model contained within and leadership of the Data Engineering team.
Data is at the core of the role and you will be one of the organisation’s leading proponents of data standards. You will look to drive improvements to data collection methodology and high quality data in order to support intelligence-led decision making across the organisation.
You will be responsible for building a team of data engineers, architects, and data platform professionals that will create a platform that is core to the Trust's operations and improve our ability to respond to data requests and build. The post holder will be responsible for highly complex strategic and innovative solutions with the ability to present and articulate technical executions clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders.
The post holder will need to work closely with the Head of Data and Statistics to create and deliver a business plan/roadmap that supports Trust’s Digital and Data Clinical Strategy.
You will regularly report on progress to a wide variety of stakeholders ranging from board members to technical developers, analytical team members and suppliers.
You will form part of the Trust's Data community working with and learning from peers across the organisation as we mature our delivery capability.
This post requires significant autonomy and initiative as well the ability to inspire a team. Confident in your ability to deliver, be productive under pressure and takes ownership of deliverables.
You will demonstrate a consistent leadership style which engages, enables and empowers others. You will use coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitate team working and collaboration both internally and across department/organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience, and specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate courses & experience to Masters or equivalent level plus in-depth managerial, technical and strategic knowledge.
* Requires highly developed, in depth specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and professional experience of disciplines including data modelling/definition, data platform delivery, quality assurance and service delivery acquired over an extended period of time.
Other
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Experience
* Experience of implementing or expanding an established data platform.
* Experience of leading complex projects, motivating multi-disciplinary project teams, including working with public sector governance and assurance bodies.
* Experience in managing data interfaces as part of a full data pipeline (from source to deployment).
* Strong knowledge of data architecture, data warehousing, ETL processes, and data integration.
* A proven track record and experience of successful complex technical developments within the NHS or similar large scale organisation operating 24/7.
* Knowledge and understanding of health and social care, the NHS and its strategic direction and relevant political drivers.
* Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
* Knowledge and understanding of health and social care, the NHS and its strategic direction and relevant political drivers.
Technical Skills and abilities
* Data Architecture and Engineering: Proficiency in designing and managing data architectures and platforms.
* Data Governance: Knowledge of data governance practices, including data quality, security, and compliance.
* Cloud Technologies: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for data storage and processing.
* Expertise in using analytical tools and programming languages such as SQL, Python, and R.
Leadership/Management skills and abilities
* Ability to lead and manage a team of data engineers, scientists, and analysts.
* Project management skills to oversee data projects from inception to completion.
* Experience of developing and implementing a data strategy that aligns with the organization's goals.
* Strong analytical skills to interpret and analyze data, providing actionable insights.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the workplace (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
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. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Positive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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Name Richard Leonard Job title Deputy Director of Digital Development and Data
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