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Job summary

Main area
Information Technology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-2210
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Level 6 Highgate Wing Whittington Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£66,718 - £76,271 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Information Development Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

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Job overview

The post-holder will take a lead role in developing new data extracts from and data feeds into existing or new Trust Information Systems. As such, the post will play a key role in the selection and deployment of all new systems.

In addition, the post-holder will work as part of the team to maintain existing data extract processes from operational system which populate the Trust Data Warehouse, ensuring clear and accurate documentation covering all processes is in place and supplemented with routine data integrity audit and checking procedures.

One of the key responsibilities of the Information Team is the provision of accurate and timely information to satisfy both internal & external corporate reporting requirements. This includes Contract Monitoring, SUS/PbR submissions, Board and Executive dashboards, Operational Management Reports and Performance Indicators.

This post is tasked with providing accurate and reliable data to meet these reporting needs via the Trust Data Warehouse.  In order to fulfil the challenge, the post-holder requires a strong technical, organization and problem-solving skillset.

Main duties of the job

Below is a selection of main duties and responsibilities but please review the attached job description for a full list.

  1. Act as the lead technical specialist on the design, development, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of the Trust Data Warehouse.
  2. Take a leading role in the systematic review, monitoring, and improvement of data integrity through automated validation processes. This will require judgement in assessing highly complex technical information to lead the Trust data warehouse.
  3. Be responsible for supplying accurate and timely data feeds to all approved recipients of data from the Trust Data Warehouse.
  4. Support Power BI development by working with the information team to develop the required datasets for Power BI dashboards and manage the technical processes of deploying Power BI dashboards supported by the development team.
  5. Diagnose and investigate technical problems methodically, applying appropriate tests and gathering sufficient information to enable the delivery of robust solutions.
  6. Manage work-streams as part of the development and implementation of new information systems and infrastructures where appropriate.
  7. Responsible for the maintenance of all information team systems including ensuring maintenance and upgrades are within delegated budget.
  8. Be proactive in ensuring Information Systems are prepared for changes in local and national guidelines.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health is an Integrated Care Organisation providing a wide range of Acute and Community Services across North Central London.

The Whittington Hospital has a reputation as one of the safest hospitals in England. As an integrated care organisation, providing both hospital and community services, we offer a range of development opportunities along with attractive benefits to staff at all levels of our organisation.

Our aim is to provide outstanding care.  Care that is better coordinated, in the right place and designed around individual patient’s needs. This means we can bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience.

We also have a highly regarded educational role, teaching more than 600 undergraduate medical students, nurses and therapists each year and providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professionals.

The Information development team alongside the Information team are part of the Information Management and Technology Department and its work in delivering the digital strategy for the Trust.

The Information Team is responsible for a wide range of information analysis relating to patient information, business and performance management indicators and clinical and information governance issues.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find a document attached with the combined job description that highlights the main responsibilities as well as the person specification.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Masters level or equivalent in relevant field
  • Post graduate informatics qualification or equivalent in experience

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Project management skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (both written and verbal)
  • Ability to work with non-technical users to create specifications for data interfaces with Trust Information Systems
  • Ability to communicate complex technical issues to a wide audience.
  • Strong analytical and mathematical reasoning skills
  • Ability to work as a team member, team leader and on own initiative.
  • Ability to manage multiple complex work programmes effectively.
  • Advanced querying and interrogation against large relational database management systems
  • Strong SQL and SQL Server (or equivalent) skills
  • Expert SSRS and SSIS skills
  • Expert skill level in all MS Professional Products (notably Excel and Access)
  • Familiarity with one of more web-based development tools ( .Net / C#)
  • Power BI Development and technical administration. Experience with Power BI workspaces, deployment, setting up users/user groups and managing access rights.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Expert knowledge of NHS Commissioning and Payment by Results including a proven track record of SUS and SLAM output development, including national HRG grouping tools
  • Adding value to information to support the wider organisational need.
  • Development and implementation of information solutions in a complex organisation
  • In depth experience of managing large volumes of data within corporate relational database systems
  • Production of management information using both data and free text report writing
  • Production of information/reports to assure data integrity.
  • Analysing information in a health environment
  • Management/supervision experience of technical information development staff
  • Relational database design experience
  • Data warehouse principles and design experience
  • NHS Data Standards
  • NHS Data Definitions
Desirable criteria
  • Distribution of management or other information using web technology
  • Experience of using System C’s Careflow (Medway) EPR/BI
  • Experience of RiO data
  • RTT experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tawanda Maposa
Job title
Assistant Director of IM&T - Information
Email address
[email protected]
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