Artificial Intelligence Data Scientist (Band 8a) - Digital Services - University Hospitals of N[...]

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job description

Employer University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Royal Stoke Hospital

Town Stoke on Trent

Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum

Salary period Yearly

Closing 22/04/2025 23:59

Artificial Intelligence Data Scientist

Band 8a

Job overview

Band 8A Artificial Intelligence Data Scientist

UHNM has a requirement for a Data Scientist to be part of our newly established AI Team. This pivotal role will be supported by Data Scientists in the successful delivery of AI and data analytics services. The primary aim is to identify user cases within the Trust that can benefit from AI investment, secure and manage funding streams, and provide technical support for AI-driven projects and systems used by UHNM. The Data Scientist will also resolve data-related issues to maintain business continuity.

Additionally, this role will involve active participation in project implementation where appropriate. The Data Scientist will work closely with the AI Programme Manager, AI Specialist, and clinical liaison officers to deliver AI solutions across the Trust, ensuring the provision of efficient and reliable services.

Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to leveraging AI to drive innovation and excellence in healthcare.

UHNM has adopted a Lean-based improvement methodology. Building capability in our “Improving Together” approach is a key organisational priority. Delivery of AI will provide an opportunity to apply this approach in practice. As AI Specialist, you will be expected to actively support the application of the “Improving Together” approach in delivering the outputs of your role.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist support in the operational management, implementation, and maintenance of AI and data analytics projects, ensuring continuous and acceptable service to all end users, including management and supervision of approved third-party service providers and contractors.
• Formulates the development vision and long-term strategy for AI and data analytics alongside the Head of AI and Data Analytics that meets the Trust and IM&T digitalisation strategies as well as the requirements of the service.
• Create, manage, and develop overarching AI/data analytics design and technical development strategies, setting out the roadmap for enhancing and updating AI systems across the Trust.
• Make system design and technical decisions on current and new AI projects, involving and collaborating with the rest of the AI Team and stakeholders from the wider Trust Teams.
• Work with the AI Specialist and Data Analytics to consistently move the AI service forward in terms of agility and efficiency.
• Actively champion and contribute to the technical product documentation and work with AI third parties to ensure effective communication of AI changes and issues to the customer base.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM creates and encourages a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients, and carers, that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, we know that investing in, supporting, and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

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, including 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

• 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).
• PhD in Data Science or related field.

Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience

• 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.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.

Personal Qualities

• 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.

Important information about your application

• All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
• References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
• We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.

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