Job summary
- Main area
- IT
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term / secondment due to Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 025-AC072-0425-CVL
- Employer
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid working
- Town
- Location to be confirmed at interview
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Data Modeller
Band 8a
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.
The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
The Senior Clinical Modeller will act as a lead on the production of clinical models for use within digital clinical applications, advising the clinical directors, senior managers, clinical and technical teams on data strategy for a range of projects owned by DHCW and NHS Wales Health Boards.
Clinical models will be based on the HL7 FHIR . Duties include the creation and maintenance of FHIR profiles (i.e., data items such as blood pressure) and development of guidance to be published within the Data Standards Wales FHIR Implementation Guide. The role will also ensure that the FHIR profiles used in the Implementation Guide support interoperable communication and safe reuse of all clinical content based on HL7 FHIR.
Senior Clinical Modellers will enable development of HL7 FHIR Profiles, supporting regional, national and cross border clinical collaboration by bringing modelling expertise to the development of interoperable APIs. This incorporates the use of Data Standards and knowledge of the appropriate terminologies and value sets (e.g. SNOMED CT) and how best to use them within the national context and in digital services meeting the needs across Wales Health and Social Care setting
Main duties of the job
Senior Clinical Modellers will work with business analysts, clinicians, interoperability specialists, data standards and application developers daily to identify requirements for clinical models through research and business analysis methodologies.
Senior Clinical Modellers will be responsible for creating and maintaining the FHIR profiles, examples and guidance to be published as part of the Implementation Guide. In the creation of new FHIR profiles, the Senior Clinical Modeller will be responsible for the identification of those elements that need to be included in the new model along with associated value-sets, terminology bindings and information standards. Where similar elements exist in other FHIR profiles, they will use design governance and change management to avoid unwarranted variations, to facilitate both consistent user experience and interoperability.
Senior Clinical Modellers act to design the specification of clinical data models for use by others, utilising custom tooling to be able to build FHIR profiles for both software creation and inspection of models created by others. They will also provide clinical guidance regarding the safe mapping of data elements to and from other content models provided by OpenEHR, other HL7 standards and in-house proprietary data schemes.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months due to maternity cover. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s degree Level preferably in a health, management and / or IM&T subject, or equivalent skills and experience.
- Evidence of relevant further higher-level education (postgraduate) and/or training and/or CPD
- Either: A background as a clinician or in biomedical science Or Substantial experience in design or implementation of clinical systems with a good knowledge of data modelling, clinical data and processes.
- Knowledge of health service management, and business change management
- Registered with a relevant informatics professional body, or registered with a clinical professional body
Desirable criteria
- Registered Clinician
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of health service management, including change management and workforce re-design, acquired through training and experience to Masters’ or equivalent level.
Experience
Essential criteria
- A high degree of computer literacy including experience in the deployment or use of clinical systems
- Evidence of Management experience
- Experience of ICT initiatives
- Evidence of leadership development
- High level of political awareness capable of understanding the wider objectives of the organisation and its context within current Assembly policy and strategic direction.
- Good understanding of how to engage clinicians and patients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.
- Experience of development and testing including creating test data and providing input to the development and test process.
- Experience and understanding of change management process
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post registration clinical experience
- An understanding of clinical interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR, HLv2, CDA
- Existing knowledge/experience of openEHR
- Prior experience in the definition of clinical content
- An understanding of SNOMED-CT
- Experience of software development
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information
- Demonstrable ability to effectively work in a team
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills Influencing and negotiating skills at all levels of the NHS, with wider stakeholders and across organisational boundaries.
- Able to manage and successfully handle conflict.
- Experience of Multi-professional team working.
- Sound judgement and decision making involving highly complex facts or situations across the Directorates portfolio.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable level 1 - 5 in understanding, speaking, reading and writing in Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Callum Saint
- Job title
- Service Owner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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