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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Head of Data Platform
Closed for applications on: 28-Mar-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 28-Mar-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
- Address
- Avenue Road
- Town
- Seaton Delaval
- Postcode
- NE25 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8d)
Specialty
- Main area
- Digital Services
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.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
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 are 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.
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Define and execute the strategic vision for the data platform, aligning with business goals and objectives
A strong understanding of AI/ML and how it can be applied to data to increase its value to end users
Assess national and local data standards, ensuring that requirements are understood and compliance is monitored
Provide specialist advice across the Trust relating to data standards, data collection, data recording and data quality
Work closely with the Head of Data and Statistics to model and define data models and entities that conform to national standards where required
Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable data architectures
Provide technical leadership and understanding across all areas of the Data Platform
Maintain and deliver data products and services to the business, making sure business requirements are met and delivered products/services are secure and reliable
Manage and monitor 3rd party supplier integration and interfaces.
Establish appropriate tools, standards, and best practice ways of working in relation to the Data Platform
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.
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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Expertise in using analytical tools and programming languages such as SQL, Python, and R
Leadership/Management skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- 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.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Leonard
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Digital Development and Data
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