Artificial Intelligence Data Scientist

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

Stoke-on-Trent

GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Plan, organise, and implement highly complex AI projects that are critical to Trust operational processes and impact both clinical and non-clinical areas.
Assess risk of non-delivery of plans to ensure deadlines and prioritisation of work according to Trust requirements and IM&T strategy.
Implement best practices and changes to current policies impacting both clinical and non-clinical areas, new reporting methods.
Maintain an awareness of changes being implemented in the Trust, and raise issues if a change impacts the delivery of other services, particularly those that might affect other IT systems.
Collaborate with local NHS partners across the Integrated Care System to ensure the solution design is understood as it is used widely across the local health economy by other patient-facing organisations.

Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria

A master's degree in computer science, Data Science, AI, or a related field
Evidence of continuing professional development, either academic (e.g. MSc) or in an industry standard qualification (e.g. MSCD).

Desirable criteria

PhD in Data Science or related field

Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential criteria

Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and R, experience with AI frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch, and knowledge of data management and cloud computing.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop and implement machine learning models.
Prior experience in developing and delivering AI solutions, including the ability to manage data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing. Experience of working with public cloud service providers Azure or AWS.
Continuous professional development in AI and machine learning techniques. Network Performance Monitoring: Monitoring network performance, analysing network traffic patterns and implementing improvements in network efficiency, capacity, and quality of service (QOS).
Experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.

Personal Qualities
Essential criteria

Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self-regulation.
Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to agreed objectives.
Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach.
Works with patients and people at the fore - operates to a customer service ethos.
Acts to support and enable effective teamwork.
Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality.
There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating.
Emotional effort: the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances.
Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites.

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