The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- 46,148 – 52,809 £ / Year
Job Summary
The Christie has the ambition to become a leader in real world outcomes. Our ambition is to make greater use of real world patient data collected routinely as part of standard clinical care to make incremental changes in improving cancer patient outcomes, services and experience. In the last decade, the Christie has established a framework, to collect high quality real world clinical, treatment and more recently patient reported outcomes data not only via clinical trials but for patients receiving standard care. More recently, a new 5-year Clinical Outcomes Data Strategy has been approved setting out the Trust plan to deliver on the vision “to improve clinical outcomes through a data-enhanced comprehensive cancer centre where real-world data drives improvement in cancer care”.
This is a new and exciting role created to expand the data access functionality of the Christie Clinical Outcomes and Data Unit (CODU) to support real world data research and outcomes initiatives. We are looking for someone to join our team of analysts, data scientists and statisticians, who will share in our vision to improve clinical outcomes through data. Like us you will be forward thinking, willing to explore, learn and implement new approaches, and enjoy finding innovative solutions even to long standing problems. Like us, you will come ready to meet new challenges, to learn new skills, and to widen your horizons at any opportunity.
Main duties of the job
As our technical specialist you will work closely with our Data Engineering colleagues to lead on the establishment of the inaugural CODU research database, defining data flows, creating SQL queries to link complex datasets, setting up data quality evaluation processes and reports and producing meta data documents for technical and layman audiences. You will ensure anonymization methodologies are appropriately applied and produce data extracts according to research study specifications. You will also support the establishment of our new CODU secure data rooms and a secure RWD environment, incorporating data science techniques for the development of curated datasets and synthetic data.
In addition, as an senior member of CODU Analytics team you will help drive the delivery of our Analytics function, supporting our requests service, providing expertise in technical and complex data wrangling or performance tuning of data processing code, advising on best practice technical solutions, investigating and promoting new and innovative data access tools and making recommendations on service and policy change. You will also have considerable opportunity to contribute to our data science projects where you have relevant specialist knowledge and experience.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Expertise in database management and data flows.
- Practical knowledge and experience of a range of data analysis and visualization methods and practices
Desirable
- Knowledge of metadata design, how to apply appropriate metadata repositories and manage changes to existing metadata repositories.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with and linking complex datasets using programming code.
- Experience of creating and establishing new data collection flows and processes.
- Experience of data insight analysis and intelligence reporting.
- Experience of producing documentation and reports to a Trust Board level standard.
Desirable
- Staff management/supervisory experience
- Experience in NHS or Health related analytical role
- Experience of working with Unix-based operating systems
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate qualification in an analytical/ statistics/ data science discipline or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Able to demonstrate ongoing commitment to own personal development
Desirable
- Evidence of statistical training or application of statistical techniques.
- Database / dataflow / reporting practitioner certificates, e.g. SQL, Microsoft server tools etc.
- PRINCE 2 Foundation or equivalent project management
Other
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Skills
Essential
- Advanced SQL skills
Desirable
- Data Science/advanced statistical skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of current state and future trends in business intelligence and analytics, and proven track-record of keeping up with this fast-moving discipline.
- Awareness of Information Governance requirements
Desirable
- Understanding of the concepts and principles of data modelling.
- Awareness of how to design and build ETL/ELT, data pipelines, and data wrangling processes.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of identifying data quality issues and developing data quality reports.
- Experience of interpreting and presenting information in a meaningful manner
- Experience of identifying, and applying, appropriate analytical techniques to task in hand, and learning, and applying, new skills and methodologies where appropriate.
- Experience of providing oversight and advice to more inexperienced members of the team.
- Experience of working on projects/assignments involving a range of stakeholders with differing priorities.
- Experience of identifying areas for impactful innovation in data tools and techniques
Desirable
- Experience of the operational implementation of new technologies and processes
- Experience of creating metadata, designing appropriate metadata repositories and managing changes to existing metadata repositories.
- Project management
- NHS Data Dictionary
- NHS Datasets
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to design, develop and implement innovative data, BI, and analytics solutions, including: oTechnical analysis of requirements and specifications oWriting and management of code for the analysis and processing of data oPerformance tuning of data processing and analytical analysis code
- Excellent communication skills, with ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical audience.
- Ability to focus on complex problems, pay attention to detail, identify issues, and provide trouble shooting solutions
- Ability to understand the needs of technical, business, and clinical stakeholders and interpret them into technical requirements which can be implemented.
- Able to influence and negotiate with peers and senior managers to ensure best practice and successful development and implementation of change in your work area.
- Ability to be organised and to manage competing priorities
Desirable
- Proficient in writing clean, readable, and efficient Python code.
Values
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
Other
Essential
- Office based role for first 3 months minimum then Hybrid (2 days a week on-site)
- Maintain confidentiality relating to patient data and sensitive information relating to the business of the Trust
- Ability to work flexibly to meet key deadlines and core service coverage
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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).
Closing Date: 14 February 2025
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