Digital change within the NHS is gathering pace, and a key component in enabling and embedding change across an Integrated Care System (ICS) is the Data Engineering discipline. The team work closely with a variety of clinicial and operational teams, as well as their data science and engineering counterparts across the ICS and use their detailed domain knowledge to develop solutions that create positive impact in the system and for the population.

The role will be working in the Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service (DiiS).

The technologies used by the team are diverse, and the post holder should be prepared to use the right tool for the job. The type of skills relevant to the role are (but not limited to) SQL, Azure, DevOps, GitHub.

The work of the team is broad and varied, and in an ever-changing health and social care landscape a pragmatic and flexible attitude is essential. The team supports the DiiS analyst and data science team as well as other analysts and engineers within our ICS partners. The post holder will get involved in all areas of the team's work, and continuously inspect, adapt, and evolve.

The post holder will be required to learn new skills, to innovate, to get involved in projects large and small, and contribute to the future direction of the team and how it operates.

Main duties of the job

Working within the Dorset Intelligence & Insight Service (DiiS) you will be instrumental in the design and delivery of Dorset's approach to population analytics and the underlying data engineering that supports it. You will be working collaboratively with system stakeholders ensuring that data engineering programme plans are developed, maintained, and delivered.

This role represents an excellent opportunity for development with a huge scope to really make a difference to the way we deliver services in Dorset and to hugely impact outcomes for patients. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a confident, flexible, pro-active and responsive approach combined with the resilience to deal with shifting priorities and demands.

About us

We are joining up to tackle all the things that affect our health and wellbeing, make real change, and improve things for our communities.

Dorset ICS is made up of: NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board, University Hospitals Dorset Foundation Trust, Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust, Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust, Dorset Council, Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole Council, 194 town and parish councils, 18 primary care networks (made up of 80 GP practices), Southwestern Ambulance Service Foundation Trust, Dorset Police, Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, 7,300 voluntary organisations.

What we do: The Health and Care Bill puts ICSs on a statutory footing empowering them to better join up health and care services, improve population health, and reduce health inequalities. ICSs have four core purposes: Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare, Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, Enhance productivity and value for money, Help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working within the Dorset Intelligence & Insight Service (DiiS) you will be instrumental in the design and delivery of Dorset's approach to population analytics and the underlying data engineering that supports it.

This role represents an excellent opportunity for development with a huge scope to really make a difference to the way we deliver services in Dorset and to hugely impact outcomes for patients. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a confident, flexible, pro-active and responsive approach combined with the resilience to deal with shifting priorities and demands.

The post holder will be expected to:

• Develop solutions using a range of technologies and platforms
• Design, build, test, modify and maintain data pipelines and data stores creating complex or Large -scale data products.
• Create new datasets through the manipulation of multiple data sources.
• Make effective use of development practices such as version control, unit testing, planning, DevOps, etc.
• Participate in refinement and planning sessions.
• Write review and maintain detailed system documentation.
• Develop expertise in data profiling, locally used applications, systems, platforms, and reporting tools and share your knowledge with others.
• Effectively communicate to and between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Determine which tools and techniques to use to explore or solve a variety of business issues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
• Professional qualification in relevant area
• Relevant industry recognised training

Experience

Essential

• Experience of data technologies, e.g. databases, data formats, querying tools
• Experience of database languages e.g. SQL
• Experience of software development tools and practices (version control, task management, IDEs, etc)
• Experience of a programming language e.g. Python
• Experience of testing and validation
• Experience of Business Intelligence tools and technologies e.g Power BI

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Knowledge of common approaches to processing data
• Knowledge of data modelling techniques
• Knowledge of development tools and techniques
• Knowledge of development methodologies
• Ability to validate own work through a range of QA techniques
• Ability to write clear and concise documentation
• Logical approach to problem solving
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work without direct supervision

Employer details

Employer name

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Dorchester County Hospital

Williams Avenue

Dorchester

DT1 2LJ

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