Job summary
Are you passionate about using data to help service managers, clinicians and operational teams deliver effective and high-quality services that make real difference to patients and service users?
This role will involve working closely with operational services to build solutions to continuously develop reporting systems and applications to help meet the various challenges across the hospital sites.
We are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Band 7 Foundry Developer to join us and make substantial contributions to this work. The role will involve using your experience, skills and initiative to implement complex solutions, build datasets, analytical and reporting dashboards to provide insights that will enable clinical and operational services to monitor their operations, enhance prcoesses and improve their performance.
As a cross functional team, you may be required to pick up tasks in any area or division at any time.
Main duties of the job
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business objectives and translate them into actionable data projects; specifically with business users to identify critical questions, pain points, and challenges they face.
- Scope and analyse business problems to develop solutions that deliver measurable business value, going beyond a mere checklist of technical requirements.
- Utilise Palantir Foundry platform and other relevant tools to gather, analyze, and process large-scale datasets.
- Design applications and ontology based on business requirements
- Develop and work alongside Data Warehouse teams to deploy scalable data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, quality, and reliability.
- Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, enabling them to make informed business decisions.
- Identify opportunities for turning exploratory or analytical applications into interactive operational workflows to drive business value
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in data science and emerging technologies, and proactively identify opportunities to apply them to business challenges.
About us
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people.
Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.
We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business objectives and translate them into actionable data projects; specifically with business users to identify critical questions, pain points, and challenges they face.
- Scope and analyse business problems to develop solutions that deliver measurable business value, going beyond a mere checklist of technical requirements.
- Utilise Palantir Foundry platform and other relevant tools to gather, analyze, and process large-scale datasets.
- Design applications and ontology based on business requirements
- Develop and work alongside Data Warehouse teams to deploy scalable data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, quality, and reliability.
- Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, enabling them to make informed business decisions.
- Identify opportunities for turning exploratory or analytical applications into interactive operational workflows to drive business value
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in data science and emerging technologies, and proactively identify opportunities to apply them to business challenges
Information System Architecture
- Gain understanding on how data flows throughout the Trust (e.g. between the EPR, other systems and the data warehouse).
- To support various departments for the development, implementation, and maintenance of reporting systems.
- To ensure that reports are designed, implemented and managed in accordance with relevant legislation including Caldicott Principles and the Data Protection Act.
- To create and maintain technical documentation under formal change control processes.
- To analyse and present data as dashboards and reports fundamental to the operation of the department.
Communication
- To communicate effectively with clinicians and managers on matters associated with the system design and development of solutions.
- To work with colleagues to plan and develop training programmes to train staff in the use and capabilities of relevant application systems and BI tools.
- To ensure that the skills and knowledge base of staff in the information management and data quality teams are up to date and evolve to meet challenging circumstances.
- To present, provide and receive highly complex information to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.
Management Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of strategic service transformation projects within the sector which need to provide in-depth triangulated intelligence to inform decision making, business planning, and the measurement of improvement in performance and quality.
- Foster a culture of customer service by working closely with the decision-support function, responding effectively to the needs of the organisation and pro-actively seeking to add value to the organisation through information analyses, tools and methods.
- Foster close working relations with the Data, Digital, Performance, ICT and Finance departments in developing and maintaining quality information and information reporting systems.
- Review and contribute to the development of Information Management and Data Quality policies and procedures to meet the needs of the Trust.
- Support, mentor and line manage junior staff where possible
Job description
Job responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business objectives and translate them into actionable data projects; specifically with business users to identify critical questions, pain points, and challenges they face.
- Scope and analyse business problems to develop solutions that deliver measurable business value, going beyond a mere checklist of technical requirements.
- Utilise Palantir Foundry platform and other relevant tools to gather, analyze, and process large-scale datasets.
- Design applications and ontology based on business requirements
- Develop and work alongside Data Warehouse teams to deploy scalable data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, quality, and reliability.
- Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, enabling them to make informed business decisions.
- Identify opportunities for turning exploratory or analytical applications into interactive operational workflows to drive business value
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in data science and emerging technologies, and proactively identify opportunities to apply them to business challenges
Information System Architecture
- Gain understanding on how data flows throughout the Trust (e.g. between the EPR, other systems and the data warehouse).
- To support various departments for the development, implementation, and maintenance of reporting systems.
- To ensure that reports are designed, implemented and managed in accordance with relevant legislation including Caldicott Principles and the Data Protection Act.
- To create and maintain technical documentation under formal change control processes.
- To analyse and present data as dashboards and reports fundamental to the operation of the department.
Communication
- To communicate effectively with clinicians and managers on matters associated with the system design and development of solutions.
- To work with colleagues to plan and develop training programmes to train staff in the use and capabilities of relevant application systems and BI tools.
- To ensure that the skills and knowledge base of staff in the information management and data quality teams are up to date and evolve to meet challenging circumstances.
- To present, provide and receive highly complex information to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.
Management Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of strategic service transformation projects within the sector which need to provide in-depth triangulated intelligence to inform decision making, business planning, and the measurement of improvement in performance and quality.
- Foster a culture of customer service by working closely with the decision-support function, responding effectively to the needs of the organisation and pro-actively seeking to add value to the organisation through information analyses, tools and methods.
- Foster close working relations with the Data, Digital, Performance, ICT and Finance departments in developing and maintaining quality information and information reporting systems.
- Review and contribute to the development of Information Management and Data Quality policies and procedures to meet the needs of the Trust.
- Support, mentor and line manage junior staff where possible
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in computer or information science, Engineering and or other technical disciplines or equivalent experience
- Educated to degree level in computer or information science, Engineering and or other technical disciplines or equivalent experience Evidence of post-qualifying continued professional development
Desirable
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Strong ability to identify and understand business problems, translating them into effective solutions rather than focusing solely on delivering against a list of technical requirements
- Ability to structure, organize and drive multiple projects simultaneously and in a constantly evolving environment
- Databases - general familiarity with common relational database models and proprietary instantiations
- Iterative working - familiarity with agile and iterative working methodology and rapid user feedback gathering concepts
- Data quality - best practices
- Proven experience in analysing and interpreting complex datasets and the production of performance data sets and dashboards
- Familiarity with data visualization tools and techniques to effectively present findings.
- Collaborate efficiently with both technical and non-technical individuals in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives and user iteration
Desirable
- Experience of working with NHS information systems and datasets
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python (ideally using PySpark), R, or SQL for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.
- Leverage data to develop innovative analytics products jointly with teams across the organization on Palantir Foundry platform
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, cloud infrastructure and good software development practices
- Knowledge of version control / collaboration workflows and best practices
- Expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, and some data science principles
- Good understanding of data engineering concepts and experience working with large-scale datasets.
Desirable
- Good knowledge of Palantir Foundry platform
- Good coding skills in Typescript/JavaScript
- Knowledge of cloud-based data storage, processing, and analysis using platforms like Azure or AWS
- Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and security best practices
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build trusted relationships within the team and across the organization
- Highly motivated, confident, self-starter and the ability to exercise initiative.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in computer or information science, Engineering and or other technical disciplines or equivalent experience
- Educated to degree level in computer or information science, Engineering and or other technical disciplines or equivalent experience Evidence of post-qualifying continued professional development
Desirable
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Strong ability to identify and understand business problems, translating them into effective solutions rather than focusing solely on delivering against a list of technical requirements
- Ability to structure, organize and drive multiple projects simultaneously and in a constantly evolving environment
- Databases - general familiarity with common relational database models and proprietary instantiations
- Iterative working - familiarity with agile and iterative working methodology and rapid user feedback gathering concepts
- Data quality - best practices
- Proven experience in analysing and interpreting complex datasets and the production of performance data sets and dashboards
- Familiarity with data visualization tools and techniques to effectively present findings.
- Collaborate efficiently with both technical and non-technical individuals in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives and user iteration
Desirable
- Experience of working with NHS information systems and datasets
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python (ideally using PySpark), R, or SQL for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.
- Leverage data to develop innovative analytics products jointly with teams across the organization on Palantir Foundry platform
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, cloud infrastructure and good software development practices
- Knowledge of version control / collaboration workflows and best practices
- Expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, and some data science principles
- Good understanding of data engineering concepts and experience working with large-scale datasets.
Desirable
- Good knowledge of Palantir Foundry platform
- Good coding skills in Typescript/JavaScript
- Knowledge of cloud-based data storage, processing, and analysis using platforms like Azure or AWS
- Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and security best practices
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build trusted relationships within the team and across the organization
- Highly motivated, confident, self-starter and the ability to exercise initiative.
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.