Job Title: AI Specialist
Agency: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Location: Cornwall, Truro, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 49,387 – 56,515 £ / Year
Job summary
This role is open to all applicants. However, in line with Cornwall First recruitment principles, initial shortlisting will prioritise applicants from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and the Integrated Care Board for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The AI specialist provides technical expertise within CITS for AI, data science and automation activity. Reporting initially through Technical Services, this specialist acts as a bridge between stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and CITS teams, helping translate strategy into practical development through proofs of concept and automation solutions that improve patient care and operational efficiency.
Main duties of the job
- Lead end-to-end technical development of AI and machine learning adoption.
- Apply advanced data science methods to explore datasets, generate insights, and help develop simplified workflows, dashboards, and visualisations.
- Support design and implementation of automation solutions for efficiency gains, working alongside existing expert teams.
- Understand licence, capacity, and subscription AI models, especially MS 365 Copilot. Ensure solutions are aligned with governance standards.
- Engage with clinical, operational, and corporate stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Ensure outputs are safe, reliable, and compliant with Trust and NHS AI assurance frameworks.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, reusable code/templates, and support the Trust’s AI roadmap.
- Provide training, mentoring, and technical guidance to teams both within CITS as a department and other teams in the wider Health Community.
- Contribute to Service Design and development of business cases within this area.
- Work with stakeholders to develop a detailed roadmap for AI and associated technologies
- Play a central role in developing business cases for the future use and support of AI
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, code repositories and data dictionaries
- Ensure compliance with information governance and data protection standards
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or able to demonstrate proven equivalent experience in AI or related discipline
- ITIL Foundation
Desirable
- Understanding of NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit
- Prince 2 Foundation
Experience
Essential
- Practical experience using Microsoft Copilot Studio to design, build, and support AI-enabled automation, productivity, and insight-generation solutions
- Stakeholder management experience
- Experience delivering technical implementations
- Experience of designing and implementing compliance or hardware reports
- Experience in creating processes and procedures
Desirable
- Experience in creating business cases
- Experience in creating policy documents
- Experience using an incident management /tracking system such as SMAX or ServiceNow
Practical and Intellectual Skills
Essential
- Advanced use of enterprise reporting tools such as Tableau or Power BI; good understanding of SQL, Python or R languages
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
- Ability to interpret and present complex data
- Ability to solve highly complex analytical problems, independently analyse information and make recommendations based on this analysis
Desirable
- Can assess risks, anticipate difficulties and take appropriate action.
- Knowledge of NHS clinical systems and information standards
Attitude
Essential
- Dynamic and proactive in approach to challenges
- Demonstrates resilience, persistence, confidence and self-belief
- Works independently and on own initiative under pressure taking appropriate decisions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 14 September 2026
How to Apply;
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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