Job summary
- Main area
- Information and Insight
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- 18 months (Fixed term 18 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-6435013
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Analyst - EPR
7
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and collaborative individual to join us as an Advanced Analyst within our Information & Insight department. The post will work in our Performance and Reporting team within the Information & Insight service. You will work closely with other analytical colleagues, Corporate and Divisional teams across NUH to:
- To support the testing and rebuild of reporting for our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme.
- Deliver a co-ordinated high quality, relevant and timely information service.
- To undertake, maintain and develop regular and ad hoc reports using a broad range of tools and techniques, and to provide detailed advice, support and guidance to clients.
- You will have excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills with a proactive “can do” attitude. A high degree of accuracy and an eye for detail is a must.
- As a member of the Information & Insight service you will be expected to respond promptly to urgent requests and deadlines accurately and thrive working under pressure in a fast-moving environment. In return we can offer you an extremely supportive and experienced environment in which to work and a commitment to continue your personal and professional development.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert. Understand and interpret highly complex information and analytical requirements, assess the purpose for which outputs are required and support, develop and deliver appropriate solutions using various information query tools and languages.
Maintain and develop understanding of the range of sources of data both within and outside the organisation.
Analyse data for a wide range of clients, determining the best form for communicating/presenting the information, from simple to highly complex and ensuring that the presentation is relevant, comprehensible and conforms to agreed timescales with the client.
Develop, maintain and utilise in depth specialist knowledge of statistical and analytical tools and techniques including being the Trust lead in certain tools.
Develop, maintain and utilise an understanding of NHS datasets and the use of information across the NHS
Develop, maintain and utilise knowledge of existing NHS and health performance, measurement and reporting frameworks e.g. CQC Intelligent Monitoring
Develop, maintain and utilise knowledge of local and national developments in relation to health information and systems and act as an initial point of contact/expertise for all issues within certain domains.
Working for our organisation
NUH is one of the largest hospital organisations in the UK. The Trust is based in Nottingham and provides care to over 2.5 million residents in the surrounding communities and a larger population through our tertiary services. Operating over three sites, we have an annual income of over £900 million, 1700 beds and we are one of the largest employers in the region.
As a member of the Information and Insight service you will be expected to respond promptly and accurately to urgent requests and deadlines and thrive working under pressure in a fast moving environment. In return we can offer you an extremely supportive and experienced environment in which to work and a commitment to continue your personal and professional development.
Due to current circumstances home working is supported in line with service needs although cross site working may be required periodically at some point in the future. We are happy to discuss this further with applicants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Lead on specific external data flows as required ensuring timely accurate documented flows are established and maintained.
Conduct user acceptance testing and rebuild of reporting for our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme.
Undertake, maintain and develop regular and ad hoc reports using a broad range of tools and techniques
Determine with stakeholders where analytical activities will need to be turned into ongoing / periodic solutions requiring new reporting flows not just one off analysis.
To maintain knowledge of different data collection, collation and reporting options within the Trust that can play a role in regular reporting.
To scope options for delivery where ongoing reporting is needed.
To lead on delivery of certain reporting solutions within the remit of the Analysis team
Where others need to lead on developing reporting solutions to contribute learning from analysis activities.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience
Desirable criteria
- Masters or above in relevant fields e.g. informatics, analysis, statistics or operational research
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Proven experience working within an Information or analysis role
- • Detailed analysis & validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance of complex organisations and to help identify opportunities for improvement.
- • Highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience in using statistical & analytical techniques and information analysis, acquired though degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level / or equivalent relevant experience
- • Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence – including understanding of a range of additional data analysis querying tools (e.g. MS SQL etc)
- • Experience in developing tools using Business Intelligence software (e.g. Qlikview, SSRS)• Experience in developing tools using Business Intelligence software (e.g. Qlikview, SSRS)
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of developing and maintaining code using R
- • Experience of using Git to collaboratively develop and maintain code.
- • Detailed knowledge & understanding of Health Informatics – including healthcare datasets (particularly secondary care), data quality, national strategic control mechanisms for data management, definitional guidance & data protection
- • Experience in a service improvement setting using a range of service improvement and quality management tools.
- • Experience in an acute hospital setting
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- • Ability to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to data literate persons or groups at various levels
- • Ability to deal effectively with a range of queries from Directors, Managers, project leads and clinical staff.
- • Ability to train others in range of data, measurement and analytical topics.
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- • Innovative thinker with the ability to identify and consider alternative ways of enabling data to be collected and presented where conventional options are not available.
- • Ability to source data from a variety of sources.
- • Able to act as an expert in field of data capture, manipulation and dissemination.
- • Ability to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present in the most appropriate format (maps, charts, tables etc).
- • Ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex information from large data sets
- • Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence – including an understanding of MS Excel & SQL
- • High level of numeracy with good problem solving and attention to detail
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- • Excellent organisational and planning skills
- • Set own priorities and develop work programmes for department
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharandeep Shokar
- Job title
- Head of Performance Reporting and BI
- Email address
- [email protected]
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