Job summary
Northumbria is committed to leveraging technology and data to create a safer, more efficient, and patient-centric healthcare system. Our Digital Clinical Strategy lays the foundation for this transformation, centring on the principle of using technology and data to enhance safety, quality, and clinical and corporate effectiveness.
The development of interoperable systems across and outside the organisation will allow the employment of advanced analytics, machine learning, intelligent automation and risk stratification to inform needs led healthcare planning and decision making.
The Finance Department recognises it has a key role in helping to deliver this strategy and to support improvements to patient care, through supporting data-driven excellence to optimise investments, streamline processes and help drive continuous improvement through evidence based strategic and operational decisions.
Finance have developed a departmental data strategy to help deliver the necessary changes for data governance as we move towards data interoperability and convergence with the Trust strategy. As a result, we are investing in a brand new Data Management and Governance Lead role to define, establish and implement structured data management and governance processes in the department.
Main duties of the job
- As someone with a passion for data, the post-holder will be responsible for defining, establishing and implementing structured data management and governance processes in the department to support intelligence led decision making.
- The post holder will drive data management and governance processes to improve awareness across the department, including communicating the impact of good data governance throughout the department, through the development and implementation of procedures and education.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the defining, establishing, implementing and maintaining a structured approach to data management and governance within the department.
Responsibilities include:
Design and implementation of practical data management and data governance solutions to support departmental needs, including identification of areas suitable for automation.
Develop wider data management competencies within the department (such as the development of data standards, data quality and master data management).
Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve the quality and trustworthiness of data, including the wider the organisation.
Building on existing plans, support the development of a medium to long term data strategy for the department, including making recommendations for convergence with the wider Trust data strategy.
Although the role is based in the Finance Department, professional standards will be maintained and development opportunities identified by the close link with the Information Services Department.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the defining, establishing, implementing and maintaining a structured approach to data management and governance within the department.
Responsibilities include:
Design and implementation of practical data management and data governance solutions to support departmental needs, including identification of areas suitable for automation.
Develop wider data management competencies within the department (such as the development of data standards, data quality and master data management).
Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve the quality and trustworthiness of data, including the wider the organisation.
Building on existing plans, support the development of a medium to long term data strategy for the department, including making recommendations for convergence with the wider Trust data strategy.
Although the role is based in the Finance Department, professional standards will be maintained and development opportunities identified by the close link with the Information Services Department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in a numerate discipline, or equivalent experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, equivalent to Master's degree level, of data governance principles and how these can be implemented and monitored and data management principles and the principles of data quality monitoring and improvement
Experience
Essential
- Experience of reviewing regulatory documentation and interpreting requirements to a local level so that they are relevant and comprehensible
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of NHS data - including Information Standards Notices & the NHS Data Model and Dictionary
- Working knowledge of DAMA International framework for data management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in a numerate discipline, or equivalent experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, equivalent to Master's degree level, of data governance principles and how these can be implemented and monitored and data management principles and the principles of data quality monitoring and improvement
Experience
Essential
- Experience of reviewing regulatory documentation and interpreting requirements to a local level so that they are relevant and comprehensible
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of NHS data - including Information Standards Notices & the NHS Data Model and Dictionary
- Working knowledge of DAMA International framework for data management
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
