Band 6 Database Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves maintaining and implementing clinical databases for lysosomal storage disorders at the Royal Free Hospital, a national specialist centre. The post holder will be responsible for routine and ad hoc reporting to external stakeholders like NHS England, ensuring timely and accurate data provision to clinicians. They will also support the clinical team with EPR/Cerner and clinical pathways development. The job requires expertise in database administration and management, particularly with Microsoft Access and SQL Server.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
- oExperience in database administration and management including back up procedures and user support
- 1 year Experience in database administration and management including back up procedures and user support
- Experience of working with clinical data and reporting to national organisations (e.g. UK Renal Registry, Diabetes UK, NHS England)
- Experience designing and maintaining databases (Microsoft Access, SQL is particularly useful)
- Track record of successfully working in a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of developing and delivering training
- Experience of project management
- Skills and aptitudes
- Excellent understanding of operating systems
- Acquired specialist expertise in designing clinical databases using access or SQL and management
- Fault fixing/troubleshooting skills
- Personal qualities and attributes
- Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and diplomatic skills both orally and in writing
- Self-starter, motivated, able to work from own initiative and with strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to their work
- Decision making and problem-solving skills
- Education and professional qualifications
- Educated to Degree level
- IT or system management qualification or relevant experience
- Evidence of continuing personal development
- oRoyal Free shared commitments
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
- oExperience in database administration and management including back up procedures and user support
- 1 year Experience in database administration and management including back up procedures and user support
- Experience of working with clinical data and reporting to national organisations (e.g. UK Renal Registry, Diabetes UK, NHS England)
- Experience designing and maintaining databases (Microsoft Access, SQL is particularly useful)
- Track record of successfully working in a team
- Experience of developing and delivering training
- Experience of project management
- Skills and aptitudes
- Excellent understanding of operating systems
- Acquired specialist expertise in designing clinical databases using access or SQL and management
- Fault fixing/troubleshooting skills
- Personal qualities and attributes
- Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and diplomatic skills both orally and in writing
- Self-starter, motivated, able to work from own initiative and with strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to their work
- Decision making and problem-solving skills
- Education and professional qualifications
- Educated to Degree level
- IT or system management qualification or relevant experience
- Evidence of continuing personal development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The Royal Free Hospital is a national specialist centre designated by NHS England (NHSE) for the diagnosis and management of patients with lysosomal storage disorders. These are a group of very rare inherited metabolic disorders causing specific enzyme deficiencies which result in widespread accumulation of various substrates in numerous organ systems and tissues.
The Unit has a need to maintain the existing clinical database and implement new disease specific databases for monitoring high cost therapies in particular. The disease specific databases contribute to collecting information on the natural history and pathophysiology of these disorders, treatment outcomes, quality of life and goals of therapy achievements. The database aids the routine management of the patients.
This post will also assist RFH commissioningteam, clinicians and nurse specialist with data monitoring and reporting toNHSE.
Main duties of the job
1\. Maintain existing LSDU clinical databases, with specific expertise and knowledge of Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, using relational databases (and implementing new databases); routine and timely reporting to external stakeholders such as NHSE, and generating ad hoc reports as required.
2\. Lead in the capture and statical analysis of clinical data in order to provide timely and accurate data to clinicians and NHSE clinical outco
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