Job summary
Are you a data manipulation guru? Are you passionate about the essential role that data plays in the development of machine learning models? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real impact on healthcare outcomes.
At the heart of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's ambitious Digital Strategy is the provision of high-quality data to support intelligence-led decision making. This role is key to the delivery of this strategy through the development of our OpenPredictor model which is applying data science and machine learning to historical data on surgical outcomes to produce individualised patient risk profiles.
Main duties of the job
As a senior member of the Data Integration Team within our Information Services department, you will:
- Identify, process, map and transform data from relevant systems to support the development of the machine learning model
- Understand data provenance and identify suitability for use
- Have an awareness of the challenges and opportunities that healthcare data present
- Document data sources used within the model to support roll-out to other areas
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
It is essential to be educated to Masters degree level in a relevant subject, or to have equivalent experience.
The postholder must have highly advanced computing skills in a programming language and the ability to adapt computing skills to any new software required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
It is essential to be educated to Masters degree level in a relevant subject, or to have equivalent experience.
The postholder must have highly advanced computing skills in a programming language and the ability to adapt computing skills to any new software required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics or statistics
- An honours degree in a subject with a substantial numerate content
- o Specialist knowledge and expertise in Information & Performance Management reporting, equivalent to postgraduate degree level, acquired through significant experience in an information analysis role, preferably in an NHS Trust.
Desirable
- Member of a professional body
Education / Experience
Essential
- o Advanced knowledge of a programming language such as SQL or similar
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics or statistics
- An honours degree in a subject with a substantial numerate content
- o Specialist knowledge and expertise in Information & Performance Management reporting, equivalent to postgraduate degree level, acquired through significant experience in an information analysis role, preferably in an NHS Trust.
Desirable
- Member of a professional body
Education / Experience
Essential
- o Advanced knowledge of a programming language such as SQL or similar
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).
