Senior Database Administrator

Are you a skilled Database Administrator looking to make an impact in healthcare?

The NCA is seeking an DBA to help manage, optimise, and secure our critical databases, supporting the delivery of vital services to patients across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale. In this essential role, you'll be responsible for maintaining and fine-tuning databases to ensure high availability, performance, and data integrity across our systems.

Working with other Digital teams, you'll oversee database design, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning, ensuring data is always accessible, secure, and compliant with NHS standards. Your expertise will help safeguard patient information ,while enabling our healthcare professionals to access the data they need quickly and accurately., As a Senior DBA in the NCA, you will play a significant role in supporting the management and maintenance of database infrastructure essential for healthcare operations. Your responsibilities encompass various tasks aimed at ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of NCA databases.

Your primary duty will involve assisting in the administration and maintenance of database systems across NCA sites. This includes supporting the deployment of database servers, storage systems, and associated infrastructure components, ensuring alignment with NHS standards and industry best practices.

In addition to providing support, you will assist in implementing basic security measures to protect database environments and sensitive data. This may involve assisting in the implementation of access controls, monitoring systems, and adherence to security policies to mitigate cybersecurity risks within database systems.

Your hands-on experience with SQL, Oracle, MySQL, or other relational databases will be key, along with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for optimisation and automation. You'll play a pivotal role in developing a resilient data infrastructure that supports NCA goals and drives healthcare innovation.

If you're detail-oriented, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to make a difference in public health, we want you on our team. Join the NCA and help build a secure, efficient, and future-ready data platform that supports better care for everyone.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.