Job summary
Barts Life Sciences is recruiting a Data Warehouse Engineer to help develop and implement an exciting initiative to find new and personalised ways to treat patients.
The successful candidate will have:
- Extensive experience of working in the field of informatics within the NHS, academia or in the private sector.
- Good, applied statistics skills; good scripting and programming skills
- Data science skills, working with both NHS and academic professionals
Barts Life Sciences (https://bartslifesciences.org/) is a joint programme between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London to accelerate the adoption of innovation and new technology in the NHS. We have partnered with Barts Charity to establish a precision medicine programme over the next 4 years which will unleash the full research potential of NHS patient data while ensuring it is accessed responsibly, legally and ethically - with patient engagement from the outset.
Main duties of the job
The Barts Life Sciences Precision Medicine Platform will be a research data platform that complies with necessary security and governance requirements, whilst having a high performing function researchers can apply to access data to improve research and health outcomes. The Data Engineer will work with the Data Warehouse Manager to design and develop the core data products to be hosted in this environment. This will require an excellent understanding of the data from Electronic Health Records as well as methods for and underlying principles of data transformations, data cleaning and data augmentation.
By offering an integrated data access service to hospital data, Barts Life Sciences will be at the forefront of data-led innovation, developing its role as a key player in the life sciences economy and in turn, improve patient care and experience.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Barts Life Sciences has partnered with Barts Charity to establish a precision medicine programme to better utilise one of the largest datasets within the NHS to find new and personalised ways to treat patients. By offering an integrated data access service, Barts Life Sciences will be at the forefront of data-led innovation, developing its role as a key player in the life sciences economy and improve patient care and experience.
A dedicated information governance and research management team will ensure all projects using our data access service will follow GDPR and other legal and ethical responsibilities, protecting patient and public rights to confidentiality, fairness and equity.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
For further detail on the role responsibilities please see the job description.
To arrange an information discussion about this role please contact Ben Eaton, Precision Medicine Data Warehouse Manager, email: Benjamin.eaton2@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Barts Life Sciences has partnered with Barts Charity to establish a precision medicine programme to better utilise one of the largest datasets within the NHS to find new and personalised ways to treat patients. By offering an integrated data access service, Barts Life Sciences will be at the forefront of data-led innovation, developing its role as a key player in the life sciences economy and improve patient care and experience.
A dedicated information governance and research management team will ensure all projects using our data access service will follow GDPR and other legal and ethical responsibilities, protecting patient and public rights to confidentiality, fairness and equity.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
For further detail on the role responsibilities please see the job description.
To arrange an information discussion about this role please contact Ben Eaton, Precision Medicine Data Warehouse Manager, email: Benjamin.eaton2@nhs.net
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of data transformations.
- Experience with complex biomedical data.
Desirable
- Experience with information governance
Skills
Essential
- Programming skills in SQL and python.
- Presentation of specialist material to a range of audiences.
Desirable
- Product development skills, project planning, budgeting, devops.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the broader health data science environment and challenges
Desirable
- Up to date knowledge of health data analysis/developments and related organisational challenges.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.
Other
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of data transformations.
- Experience with complex biomedical data.
Desirable
- Experience with information governance
Skills
Essential
- Programming skills in SQL and python.
- Presentation of specialist material to a range of audiences.
Desirable
- Product development skills, project planning, budgeting, devops.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the broader health data science environment and challenges
Desirable
- Up to date knowledge of health data analysis/developments and related organisational challenges.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.
Other
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
