NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is Monday to Friday.
The West of Scotland Innovation Hub is hosted by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and due to a growing portfolio of work is seeking a Digital Solutions Architect (Innovation) to support our work on exploring and building evidence for innovative solutions.
The Hub is a multi-award-winning service which brings together health and social care, academia, patients, and industry to develop innovative solutions to healthcare challenges. These are usually clinically led and involve defining challenges, co-development of innovation projects with industry, working with funding bodies, undertaking evaluations, scaling-up successful solutions, and working with digital solutions often based on devices, sensors, data, IT systems, and artificial intelligence / machine learning. The Hub team comprises eHealth, Research & Innovation, Clinical Leads, and other specialist support staff. We provide a healthcare test-bed environment and work with industry innovators ranging from start-ups to global technology organisations, usually at the stage before innovations and products have become commercial solutions.
As part the Board’s eHealth (Digital) team this role will provide specialist digital solutions and applications architecture support to the Hub’s projects – particularly early-stage scoping. You will work with eHealth and wider stakeholder teams to understand the current digital systems, data and standards landscape and ensure innovation proposals, projects and evaluations fit within and contribute to this landscape.
You should bring experience in successful digital solutions architecture in large/complex organisations, expertise in health data flows and integration standards (e.g. FHIR), digital project delivery and management; systems implementation; collaborative approaches; working with end-users; working with suppliers, industry or academic research partners. A keen interest in developing robust, scalable, and novel solutions balanced with how these practically integrate with and utilise established systems is essential.
You should be educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge gained through significant practical experience; hold professional qualifications or equivalent certified training relating to applications architecture, development or integration; and have experience designing and delivering IT / digital projects and be skilled at measuring the impact and benefits of change. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential as well as having experience of working with suppliers / industry partners and stakeholders. You must be flexible and prepared to react to changes in the fast-paced research environment that may affect the delivery of your work at all stages. Experience of project management would also be advantageous.
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