Are you a data specialist looking to fulfil your potential and drive real change in a purpose-led organisation recognised for its great data collection and utilization?
If so, you would be joining a charity during an exciting period of transformation, giving you an opportunity to help shape the future by delivering first class, business focused data support to our operational teams while working with the latest technology like Microsoft Fabric.
Our Charity
We are St Andrew's, a mental health Charity which inspires Hope. We work together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve lives.
Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued, and has hope for their future.
The Role
At St Andrew's we recognise the importance of data driven decisions and have made ‘being a data expert' one of our core strategic ambitions. The Data and Analytics team supports the charity in harnessing the power of data to improve outcomes for patients and operation excellence for our colleagues. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between the Charity's clinical and non-clinical operations and the Data & Analytics Team. The Data Product Manager will collaborate with key stakeholders across various departments to create innovative and high-quality data products and services that provides the knowledge and capabilities required to deliver the best outcomes for our patients and colleagues.
You will join a team of already talented developers and analysts who have been recognised for the great data collection and data usage work (please see link below for more information) they have completed and will be part of an organisation who really value data and use this to make business decisions. The role will come with a lot support from fellow data professionals as well as have opportunities to develop and progress too.
Rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings: final report and recommendations - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Your key responsibilities will include:
The Data Product Owner will work with the data team and stakeholders across clinical and non-clinical functions to understand and clarify user needs - championing the commitment to create real value for users.
- Take ownership of the successful delivery data products and services, communicating what successful outcomes look like and how they should be measured
- Use combinations of qualitative and quantitative data and professional expertise to make decisions about the direction and relative priority of work to improve our data products and services (often with incomplete information or degrees of uncertainty)
- Work to continuously prioritise work and iterate near and longer-term plans for the data team, ensuring these are suitably open, flexible, and adaptive to change
- Foster collaborative thinking and problem solving within and beyond the data team, using appropriate techniques and tools to identify and prioritise further issues and opportunities to explore
- Build partnerships by communicating the team's efforts, achievements and needs to stakeholders, management and in public forums
- Support the production of performance reporting for use in Integrated Quality Performance review processes to ensure high levels of quality and governance are maintained throughout the charity
About you
You will be an established Data Product Manager who has valuable experience working with data products. You will have good understanding of how to gather requirements, how to apply Agile Methodologies as well as have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills applied at various levels.
Experience in healthcare would be advantageous but not essential, what is more important is having a passion for improving how an organisation collects and uses data.
Reward
We offer an excellent benefits package including pension, 35 days holiday (including bank holidays), sickness policy on par with NHS, access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes, life cover, car lease scheme, cycle to work scheme and opportunities for continuing professional development.
Interested?
We are looking forward to receiving your application. If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Sam Pendry, Recruitment Consultant at or Sarah Abnett, Lead Data Engineer at
Closing Date: Sunday 20th October 2024Interviews: w/c 21st October or 4th November 2024