NHS England supports organizations to deliver better outcomes for patients and communities. The Data Services division of the Data and Analytics sub directorate aims to be the leading data services provider for health and social care across England, creating innovative and high quality data products and services that enable the delivery of best outcomes for citizens.
Main duties of the job
- Federated Data Platform and Common Data Platform projects
- Curation of national data sets for onward use (Hospital Episode Statistics, Community and Mental Health, Vaccines, Prescriptions)
- NHS Workforce Data projects
- Get it right first time (GIRFT) - a national programme designed to improve the treatment and care of patients
- Support the Tech and Data Integration team to define common data models and ensure appropriate reference and master data management
- Build and maintain data pipelines, products and datasets
- Support ingestion, transformation, and validation processes
- Work with analysts to deliver data products
- Follow best practice in coding, testing, and deployment
- Contribute to improving team processes and documentation
- Support junior colleagues where appropriate
Qualifications
- Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience
Skills and experience
- Ability to deliver well scoped work independently
- Applies standard design patterns and engineering practices
- Debugs and resolves data pipeline issues
- Communicates effectively with technical and semi technical stakeholders
Values
- Proactive, team oriented, willing to learn
- Open to feedback and continuous improvement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 per annum (excluding HCAS)
Benefits and work arrangements
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will typically be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.