Job summary
Launched in 2018, Barts Life Sciences is a powerful partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London. It brings world-leading researchers, scientists, clinicians and industry together to collaborate and acceleratethe latest healthcare innovations from bench to bedside.
The Barts Life Sciences hub in Whitechapel, East London is strategically located between Europe's financial hub and London's start-up community. It is also based within one of the most diverse communities in Europe, which has around 2.5 million people speaking more than 60 languages.
Barts Life Sciences supports the ambitions laid out in the NHS Long Term Plan to bring the benefits of medical advances, driven by research and innovation, to patients and the UK economy. Building on our existing strengths in basic science, epidemiology, genomics and translational medicine, we intend to focus on the development of AI and machine learning using real-world data extracted in a meticulously governed way from electronic health record systems. We will layer data extracted from medical devices and all types of imaging onto these data forms. We will be leaders in the use of structured data and the use of global health care data standards to achieve these aims. This will help us to tackle complex challenges in cancer, trauma and cardiovascular diseases, further supporting the realisation of the NHS Plan.
Proposed interview date :W/c 8th January 2024
Main duties of the job
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.
The NHS generates vast quantities of data at each step of a patient pathway. These data are used primarily for direct patient care, to inform clinical decisions and to organise the delivery of care. Data are also used internally within NHS organisations to monitor population outcomes, improve service delivery efficiency and improve the quality of care. The systems used to record data are also designed to support and improve the working lives of healthcare staff by supporting data access for communication across health systems, automating repetitive tasks, clinical audit and research. Correctly governed, the same data will also be used outside the health service, by third-party organisations - such as universities or commercial organisations, where data might be used for research, product and service development.
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
By offering access to real world data from hospital services and primary care sources as well as pure science data such as our tissue banks and genomic screening resources, 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.
The programme will unleash the full research potential of NHS patient data while ensuring it is accessed responsibly and appropriately. A dedicated information governance and research management team will ensure that all projects using the data access service will follow GDPR and other legal and ethical responsibilities, protecting patient and public rights to confidentiality, fairness and equity.
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.
If you would like to have a preliminary discussion about this role please contact Steven Newhouse, Deputy CIO Precision Medicine, email: steven.newhouse@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
By offering access to real world data from hospital services and primary care sources as well as pure science data such as our tissue banks and genomic screening resources, 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.
The programme will unleash the full research potential of NHS patient data while ensuring it is accessed responsibly and appropriately. A dedicated information governance and research management team will ensure that all projects using the data access service will follow GDPR and other legal and ethical responsibilities, protecting patient and public rights to confidentiality, fairness and equity.
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.
If you would like to have a preliminary discussion about this role please contact Steven Newhouse, Deputy CIO Precision Medicine, email: steven.newhouse@nhs.net
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience on architecting and delivering large scale cloud solutions (including public, private & hybrid platforms), within an organisation that uses a structured design methodology
- Management experience working in a large, complex organisation providing hands-on technical leadership
- Experience of formulating IT strategy and roadmaps
- Experience of financial and budgetary management of 7 figure budgets, forecasts and programmes
- Excellent people management skills and able to undertake all HR-related activities and requirements and manage a team to provide a high-quality service
- Experience of report writing and business planning at both operational and strategic level and able to plan services and develop strategies and policies
- Experience of contract management
Desirable
- Experience in cloud security
- Understanding of considerations of GDPR, PID when designing solutions
- Work within a Research organisation
- Work within a Healthcare organisation
- Extensive experience of leading a technology reliant organisation through the process of change, maturity and innovation uplift
- Experience supporting business case creation
- Demonstrable experience of being part of complex ICT change
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Strong enterprise architecture framework knowledge
- Technical understanding of key languages (Java, Python, C#), cloud networking, data storage and security
- Aptitude to design technical/security solutions that will fit into long-term business objectives and strategy
- Awareness and understanding of emerging technologies and potential implications
Desirable
- Knowledge of Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essential+, Data Security and Protection Toolkit, ISO/IEC 17799:2005 & ISO/IEC 27001:2005
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a technical or computer science related subject or equivalent, substantial work experience
- Technical / professional qualification e.g. certified Cloud Architect accreditation
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification such as an MSc, or other appropriate business,engineering or scientific qualification
- Service / project management qualification e.g. ITIL, MSCE, MSC or equivalent; MSP, PRINCE2 or similar
- Substantial management training or management qualification (e.g. ILM) or equivalent experience
Skills
Essential
- High level of interpersonal and organisational skills - self starter
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Excellent business analysis skills: able to produce metrics, analyse and interpret information and produce regular reports on current status, trend analysis and service improvement
- Able to take ownership of cloud infrastructure related design decisions throughout the delivery process, including selection of tools to support data architecture activities
- Effective team player
- Able to prioritise and work under pressure to meet deadlines and SLAs
- Flexible approach
- Able to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical IT people may understand
Desirable
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
Communication
Essential
- Able to make and communicate decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may only be a number of courses of action. Responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to interpret and communicate complex information to staff with varying technical knowledge
- Evidence of the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams to deliver best performance
Desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
- Customer service orientation with strong commercial and business acumen
Specific requirements
Essential
- Commitment to continuous professional development and a willingness to learn new skills and technologies
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience on architecting and delivering large scale cloud solutions (including public, private & hybrid platforms), within an organisation that uses a structured design methodology
- Management experience working in a large, complex organisation providing hands-on technical leadership
- Experience of formulating IT strategy and roadmaps
- Experience of financial and budgetary management of 7 figure budgets, forecasts and programmes
- Excellent people management skills and able to undertake all HR-related activities and requirements and manage a team to provide a high-quality service
- Experience of report writing and business planning at both operational and strategic level and able to plan services and develop strategies and policies
- Experience of contract management
Desirable
- Experience in cloud security
- Understanding of considerations of GDPR, PID when designing solutions
- Work within a Research organisation
- Work within a Healthcare organisation
- Extensive experience of leading a technology reliant organisation through the process of change, maturity and innovation uplift
- Experience supporting business case creation
- Demonstrable experience of being part of complex ICT change
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Strong enterprise architecture framework knowledge
- Technical understanding of key languages (Java, Python, C#), cloud networking, data storage and security
- Aptitude to design technical/security solutions that will fit into long-term business objectives and strategy
- Awareness and understanding of emerging technologies and potential implications
Desirable
- Knowledge of Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essential+, Data Security and Protection Toolkit, ISO/IEC 17799:2005 & ISO/IEC 27001:2005
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a technical or computer science related subject or equivalent, substantial work experience
- Technical / professional qualification e.g. certified Cloud Architect accreditation
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification such as an MSc, or other appropriate business,engineering or scientific qualification
- Service / project management qualification e.g. ITIL, MSCE, MSC or equivalent; MSP, PRINCE2 or similar
- Substantial management training or management qualification (e.g. ILM) or equivalent experience
Skills
Essential
- High level of interpersonal and organisational skills - self starter
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Excellent business analysis skills: able to produce metrics, analyse and interpret information and produce regular reports on current status, trend analysis and service improvement
- Able to take ownership of cloud infrastructure related design decisions throughout the delivery process, including selection of tools to support data architecture activities
- Effective team player
- Able to prioritise and work under pressure to meet deadlines and SLAs
- Flexible approach
- Able to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical IT people may understand
Desirable
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
Communication
Essential
- Able to make and communicate decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may only be a number of courses of action. Responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to interpret and communicate complex information to staff with varying technical knowledge
- Evidence of the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams to deliver best performance
Desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
- Customer service orientation with strong commercial and business acumen
Specific requirements
Essential
- Commitment to continuous professional development and a willingness to learn new skills and technologies
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
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).
