Band 9 Chief Data Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The Chief Data & Analytics Officer is a system leadership role hosted by the ICB that reports directly to the Chief of Strategy Digital & Integration. The role is jointly responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of ICS:

to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare

tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access

enhance productivity and value for money

help the NHS support broader social and economic development

The Chief Data & Analytics Officer will provide strategic advice, leadership, and guidance to the Somerset Integrated Care System (ICS), its Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the Somerset Board in matters relating to the storage, processing, and interpretation of intelligence to inform decision-making across the breadth of services under the Somerset Board.

The post-holder will provide strategic vision and leadership on how the use of intelligence for insight can transform service planning and delivery. They will work with system colleagues in partner organisations to align our plans within Somerset so that we develop a common approach to platforms, software, process and people.

The post holder will lead and drive the development and delivery of data services for Data Science, Population Health Analytics, Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics across Somerset, by providing professional and expert leadership and building close and effective working relationships with key data consumers across the Partnership. They will be required to lead and drive collaborative work to align data policy and administration with relevant regulatory, legal, and ethical mandates across the various systems within Somerset.

They will be required to lead and drive collaborative work to align data policy and administration with relevant regulatory, legal, and ethical mandates across the various systems within the Somerset ICS and ICB.

The Chief Data & Analytical Officer will provide leadership in developing system-wide data initiatives such as the adoption of secure by default data storage, the introduction of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines, Cloud Technologies, Adoption of open ways of working (including open-source technologies), the implementation of the competency framework for information professionals and the modernization of analytical techniques to leverage the competitive advantage of artificial intelligence for improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities. The post-holder will also lead on broadening the definition of intelligence into the collection and analysis of qualitative information sources (moving into fields such as outcomes, satisfaction and value creation).

Furthermore, the post will require establishing and maintaining strong partnerships with the key data stakeholders including but not limited to NHS England, UK Health Security Agency, UK Research & Innovation, National Institute for Health and Care Research, DARE UK, Turing Institute, and the Great Western Secure Data Environment.

In addition to Partnership responsibilities, the post-holder will provide strategic leadership into data-related programmes within the ICB (host organisation)

The post-holder will be responsible for convening collaboration amongst Somerset organisations and will be able to:

Establish and strategically lead a Joint Intelligence Function (JIF) function as part of the Somerset Partnership.

Work with existing Business Intelligence and related IT leads to create an analytically driven decision-making culture within Somerset ICS

Be responsible for long term strategic analytics forward planning within the Somerset ICS.

Manage the strategic development and delivery of the PHM platform and Joint Intelligence Function, ensuring that national & local requirements and standards are met.

Lead the development of the System data strategy, service delivery and adoption of artificial intelligence and population health analytics (prioritisation their application given local needs).

Ensure that data services meet the national & local requirements and standards including for the purpose of the GW-SDE and National FDP.

Operate autonomously and have authority over all aspects of the JIF function.

Will contribute to the ICB on call rota.

Reports into the Somerset Board and Integrated Care Boards and make objective analytical and decision advice to the Board and constituents.

Corporate responsibility for significant and instrumental policy implementation and service development which impacts the ICS, plus the patients and communities of Somerset.

Responsibility for providing strategic direction in a collaborative and facilitative way to manage improvement across the systems ensuring providers to come together, understand needs, value, and risk and to design and deliver care accordingly, as a key part of the Somerset operating plan model. This includes the ability to drive strategic direction for performance and improvement for the ICS and oversight with accountability for System Oversight.

Provide leadership in the absence of the Chief Officer for Strategy, Digital & Integration relevant to this role.

Work with Analytics leads within Somerset to create a Joint Intelligence Function that meets the aims of providing valuable insight to stakeholders and users within Somerset to enable them to make better decisions with regards to service planning, coordination and delivery.

Strategic Development (& Delivery) of the data function, ensuring that national & local requirements and standards are met.

To help create and develop a sense of team amongst the wider Somerset data and analytics community.

Work with relevant clinical leads across organisations to promote the use of preventative and interventional analytics.

Engagement with data owners and data security leads within the System.

In partnership provider leadership towards the development of the ICS Informatics Service and working with organisational leads to establish steps that can be taken to assist them to meet the national & local requirements and standards for analytics.

Sophisticated leadership and influencing skills with the ability to develop credibility as a senior professional in the relevant area with other senior system leaders.

Demonstrate presence, dynamism, energy, vision and passion; engaging people by the way they communicate, behave and interact with others.

Ability to guide and facilitate both experienced and inexperienced very senior colleagues.

A high level of political astuteness with a natural ability to thrive in complex political environments whilst always acting in a manner consistent with their values.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable knowledge in:
• The evidence base relating to analytical work in health and care including what is currently known and the cutting edge.
• Understanding of the analytical industry and implications of emerging technologies on the wider business environment
• All relevant analytical fields, their associated methods, and their potential for application within healthcare.
• Have experience at leading analytical teams and ideally across a wider function at Dep-CIO level.
• Be experienced reporting at Board level.
• Experience in using data to inform transformational change programmes.
• Advocate for and support the adoption of open-source software (including R & Python) and code-sharing

Communication

Essential

• Exceptional communication and engagement skills which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership; comfortable and credible operating at Board level.
• Will have a set of communication skills that allow them to make complex data accessible to non-analyst colleagues.
• Communicate compelling analytical stories both in person and in formal (reports) and informal (blogs, websites) written mediums, making use of the full range of analytical and visualisation techniques
• High level negotiating skills - able to negotiate solutions across a range of partners who may have different perspectives.

Personal Statement / Motivation for Applying

Essential

• Please use this section to explain how you meet the additional criteria in the Personal Specification including your reasons and motivation for applying.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or working towards
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
• Specialist qualification or equivalent experience or knowledge in subject area
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) with membership or relevant professional body.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board

Address

NHS Somerset ICB

Wynford House, Lufton Way

Yeovil

Somerset

BA22 8HR

Employer's website

https://nhssomerset.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)