Assistant Director for Data, Digital Innovation and AI

2 weeks ago

Devon, United Kingdom UBIQUITY GROUP Full time

Assistant Director for Data, Digital Innovation and AI

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 September 2024

Job summary 

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust (SWAST) are going through an exciting transformation in how we use data and technology innovation to support our patients and colleagues. 

We're in the early stages of delivering a new strategy that requires significant transformation of our data and innovation services and are looking for an outstanding leader to join us on that journey.

As the Assistant Director of Data, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) you will lead a team of around 30 colleagues to deliver significant change using market-leading technologies. You will have the drive, ambition and compassion to inspire colleagues across the South West of England and enable them to provide the best possible care for our patients.

Experience of Ambulance Services and NHS is helpful but not essential. More importantly you'll be highly experienced in the fields of data (including engineering, business intelligence, data science), innovation (including Artificial Intelligence) and be an expert in partnering with stakeholders and users to create a fantastic user experience.

Main duties of the job:

  • Provide outstanding and compassionate leadership to a team of around 30 colleagues, setting clear and stretching objectives and nurturing their professional development.
  • Oversee delivery of our Data and Innovation Strategies - encompassing complex transformation across multiple projects in parallel
  • Maintain successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders up to Board level
  • Manage day-to-day operational services for data and innovation, ensuring that critical services and regular outputs are produced on-time with sufficient resilience and scalability
  • Guide the development of new data and innovation solutions using leading technologies
  • Uphold data quality and assurance for the Trust by building and deploying a governance framework
  • Enhance data literacy across the Trust and South West region, ensuring a single version of truth and enabling users to achieve maximum benefit for our solutions
  • Actively contribute to regional and national initiatives through integration, interoperability and sharing of critical data between NHS organisations, while ensuring the security and governance of our patient's data
  • Drive thought-leadership in the use of new, innovative technologies and solutions including Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation and Machine Learning

About us 

Working for us is an experience like no other. We provide emergency and urgent care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, operating across the largest ambulance region in England of 10,000 square miles and responding to an average of 2,650 incidents every day.

We remain committed to ensuring that we provide the best possible care for all our patients, which is reflected in our new five-year strategy which has continually improving patient care at its very core.

At the heart of our beautiful and diverse region we employ over 6000 people and are supported by over 575 volunteers.

If you embody our values of one team, compassionate and innovative and are looking to make a real difference to peoples' lives, then we would love to hear from you.

In return we will equip you with the skills, resources and development you need to thrive in your role.

You will have opportunities to progress to roles at a higher pay grade and enjoy continuous professional development. 

Benefits: 

  • Competitive NHS salary
  • A standard working week of 37.5 hours
  • Holiday entitlements of 27 days per year, plus general and public holidays, rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
  • Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working
  • Generous Pension Scheme
  • Career and salary progression
  • Car leasing scheme
  • Free parking across Trust sites
  • Cycle-to-work and other salary sacrifice schemes
  • Staff networks
  • Access to a wide range of discounts from various organisations across the UK

Job description 

Job responsibilities 

For further information about this role please see the attached job description and person specification. 

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Experience 

Essential: 

  • MSc or strong evidenced experience of working in Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Data Science or Computer Science
  • Evidence of up-to-date personal and professional development
  • Demonstrable recent or current senior management experience at the same or similar level in a fast-paced environment
  • Developing and applying modelling tools and techniques to improve organisational performance.

Desirable: 

  • Prince 2 Qualification or an equivalent qualification in an Agile or Waterfall project management methodology
  • Experience in NHS datasets
  • Experience in implementation and benefits realisation for AI and/or RPA projects and proof of learning from those.
  • Demonstrable evidence of identifying opportunities for improvements in efficiency and productivity against appropriate benchmarks and of putting in place arrangements to monitor the delivery of these 

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. 

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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