Junior Data Engineer
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England.Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Do you have a passion for data? Do you have a yearning to turn data into insights, and to enhance the delivery of patient care and safety through rigorous analysis? Are you looking for a role where you will be exploring advances in technologies, learning new skills rapidly and delivering great results in a fast-paced environment?If so, we may have just the job you’re looking for!
We have 2 permanent positions available.
At the heart of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s ambitious Digital Strategy is the provision of high-quality data to support intelligence-led decision making. You will be working in a team that is key to delivering this element of the strategy using highly developed skills in the use of data and analytics.
Our department covers all things ‘data’. This includes:
Capture of data – the ‘build’ of the data structures within electronic operational clinical and administrative systems; how the human interactions with these systems support the capture of good quality datatransfer of data between systems.
Storage and data from multiple systems – building and maintaining data within our data warehouse to enable efficient access of ‘real-time’ and ‘snapshot’ data.
Data management – data quality, data integration and documentation analytics – visualisation and dashboards; supporting operational and mandatory reporting, machine learning
Main duties of the job
Our Junior Data Engineers do the following:
- Align with and actively participate in delivery management
- With direction & support from Data Engineers / Lead Data Engineers, liaise with key stakeholders within Digital and Data Services, other departments and external suppliers to ensure the most appropriate solutions are implemented for meeting the needs of the business.
- Technical development of data management & engineering processes, conduct ongoing maintenance and optimisation for the Microsoft Fabric data platform.
- Align with and actively participate in delivery management
Candidates will be required to attend a face to face test. Candidates who pass the test will be eligible to be considered for interview.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a team member, you will:
- Maintain awareness of advances in technologies for your area of work, keeping knowledge and skills up to date with rapid changes in this area.
- Awareness & adherence to best practice regarding data engineering principles, data storage, standards and database design to colleagues across the organisation.
- Role includes participation in improving data quality and data integrity throughout the Trust through involvement in data migration/warehousing projects.
- Disseminate knowledge and skills to relevant members of the team and develop or identify presentations and appropriate training packages to promote a culture of continuous learning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Specialist knowledge and expertise in data engineering, equivalent to graduate degree level
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics, computing or statistics
- Evidence of ongoing personal and professional development
- Knowledge & experience of working with Microsoft Fabric or Azure Data Management services
- Knowledge & experience of working in Cloud environment
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Advanced knowledge of a programming language such as SQL, Python, PySpark, R or similar and able to demonstrate the ability to learn new programming languages as required Office packages - in particular, Excel
- Knowledge of Data Management or ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) processes.
- Significant specialist knowledge/experience of data warehousing and data modelling concepts
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application.Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.