NHSX Job Description and Person Specification
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NHSX Job description and person specification Position Job title Data Scientist Directorate/ NHSX Region Pay band AFC Band 8b Responsible to Director of Analytics Salary Accountable Lead for Innovative Analytics From £52,306 to £60,983 per annum + HCAS where to applicable Tenure Substantive Position Responsible Works as part of the NHSX analytics for unit. Responsible for day to day work assigned to Project team whilst on allocated project Funding Programme Funded Base London or Leeds Arrangements London (Skipton House) or Leeds (Quarry House). The post holder will be required to travel regularly to Leeds (if based in London) or to London (if based in Leeds). Some travel throughout England will also be required. NHSX NHS England and NHS Improvement NHSX is leading the largest digital health and social care transformation NHSX is a joint until between DHSC and NHSE/I. This role is being programme in the world and has been created to give staff and citizens the recruited into NHSE/I. technology they need. NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) came together on 1 April We are a joint unit made up of colleagues in the Department of Health and 2019 as a new single organisation. The NHS Long Term Plan focuses on Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) and will delivering integrated care to patients at the local level and we can best harness the best expertise from industry, the NHS, Government and the health support the NHS to deliver this as a single integrated organisation. and care sectors. Our new operating model represents a strong shift to regional delivery NHSX will deliver the Health Secretary’s Tech Vision, building on the NHS Long supported by expert corporate teams. Local health systems are supported Term Plan. We will speed up the digital transformation of the NHS and social by our integrated regional teams who play a major leadership role in the care. We have set ourselves five missions, which are focused on how we can geographies they manage. make things better for patients and staff. These are: We are jointly committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive ● Reducing the burden on clinicians and staff, so they can focus on working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised patients; and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the ● Giving people the tools to access information and services directly; best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and ● Ensuring clinical information can be safely accessed, wherever it is protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. needed; This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us ● Improving patient safety across the NHS; and to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to ● Improving NHS productivity with digital technology. support the effective care of our patients. We have established NHSX on 4 core values: The seven integrated regions of our joint enterprise will work with local ● Open systems to support and improve how care is provided to patients and ● Respectful communities. These regions will be supported by the corporate centre ● Collaborative providing expertise and developing policy. The focus will be on guiding ● Innovative and managing the delivery of services through local integrated health systems, sustainability and transformation partnerships, and devolution areas. These values are guiding the way that NHSX works now and develops in the future, we would expect applicants to demonstrate, at interview, a commitment to these values. Service and team About the role About our Directorate The Analytics Unit will be expected to develop and share innovative and impactful data science and mobilise the wider analytical The Policy and Strategy Directorate will be led by Kathy Hall, returning community across the NHS and beyond to deliver analysis, insight from secondment at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and research for better health and care. to take over from Katie Farrington. When staffed up, this Directorate will consist of just over 100 people across 6 teams, made up of: This is a new role in a newly formed unit, you will be expected to shape and built the unit. ● Strategy – leading on crosscutting strategy issues for NHSX and in negotiations with HMT on technology and digital spending as As data transforms the world around us, NHSX is to build an part of future budgets and spending reviews Analytics Unit that will embrace and deliver that change in the NHS. ● Technology policy – leading on support for Secretary of State priority meetings, implementation of the tech vision and relevant As a Data Scientist, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic elements of the long-term plan, NHS Digital sponsorship and team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and behavioural insights staff across the Analytics area to develop and share innovative and impactful data science. Data and information governance policy – leading on making ● sure we get the best from the rich data in health and care, using it The post holder will be part of an innovative analytics team within to transform care, drive innovation, at the same time building the Analytics unit. The innovative analytics team will lead on proof public trust and confidence of concepts in non-clinical data science for the health and care ● Analytics – leading on analytical support across NHSX system, with a strong emphasis on bridging the gap between innovative research and real-life practice. programmes, developing an analytical profession for the NHS; and developing innovative analytical and data science projects The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the ● Social Care technology and data policy – leading on digital outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate. transformation across the social care sector and using technology The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and and sharing of data to help support integration and join up advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the between health and care definition of future processes, document those processes as they are ● Artificial Intelligence in health and care policy – leading on the agreed and oversee their delivery. policy framework for AI in health and care, including setting up our new AI lab We are looking for people who are: ● Focused on supporting patients, service users and frontline staff – and how we can harness data and technology to do so. ● Comfortable operating in an ambiguous and complex environment, with the right level of resilience and collaborative attitude to work within multiple reporting lines, virtual teams and stakeholder groups. ● Able to deliver quality at pace – taking complex issues, translating them into deliverable work programmes and implementing them to quick timelines without sacrificing quality. ● Curious and creative problem solvers who are able to navigate through barriers to delivery and who are excited about working on an emerging and innovative agenda. ● Highly corporate and keen to play their full part in developing our new Unit, Directorate and teams to their full potential, taking the best of both civil service and NHS to create an inclusive and diverse culture of high performance and continuous improvement. Key Job specifics and responsibilities Key accountabilities In this role you will be expected to identify and solve complex business Key Functional Responsibilities problems whilst leveraging data value. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with data engineers, analysts and others. Operational ● Working with data engineers to map, produce, transform and test Specifics: new data feeds for data owners and consumers, selecting the most appropriate tools and technologies. Can lead ad hoc data exploration in a wide variety of data serialisation and storage ● work with policy and operations teams to understand where data formats, from across the business, for data consumers. science can add value ● Displays strong intellectual curiosity and proactively explores ● support strategic and operational decision making in order to create areas of innovation in both government and industry. Can identify the business value for innovation within their organisation impact ● Promotes and monitors continuous professional development ● source, access, manipulate and engineer data processes with data within their organisation. Develops knowledge of cutting-edge that typically have characteristics of volume, velocity and variety techniques and shares knowledge. Propagates data science ● build credible statistical models from the data and use best coding capability across the organisation practices to generate reproducible work ● Creating data science products which are proportionate to the ● draw on other technical and analytical standards from across business benefit and achieve significant impact. Presents analysis government and industry and visualisations in clear ways to communicate complex ● adhere to the data science ethics framework messages. Develops data science communication skills within their team. Supports the evolution of data governance and takes be open minded and demonstrate strong intellectual curiosity ● responsibility for applying the data science ethical framework in ● have an interdisciplinary focus, using techniques and knowledge their business area. from across the scientific spectrum ● Designs,