Job vacancy: Band 6 Information Analyst - Bath NHS House, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Bath

Job summary

Main area: Information team
Grade: Band 6
Contract: 18 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 342-CS095-0624

Employer: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bath NHS House
Town: Bath
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/07/2024 23:59

Band 6 Information Analyst - Bath NHS House

Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To develop and provide accurate and timely reports on activity and performance to commissioners, directors, managers and clinicians.
To develop and maintain reports to be run by local staff in support of day-to-day operational activity.
To help develop a culture based around the positive use of information for service delivery and service development.
To support best practice techniques to uphold data quality and improve timeliness of information across the Trust
Within designated areas, to provide an information reporting and analysis service to managers and clinicians to enable monitoring and improvement of their services.
Responsible for all information provision within designated areas – including maintaining and developing knowledge of specific reporting requirements
To provide information, both patient-based and aggregate, to partner organisations within and outside the NHS for planning and commissioning purposes.
Support staff with advice on data collection and definitions, in order to support their use of information and of the Trust’s new patient administration system (RiO).
Liaise with staff in their working environments to align data to their requirements and assist with data quality.
To influence the organisational culture to make better use of information.
Provide support and training to other members of the Information Team, as determined by the Senior Information Analyst.
Participate in Trust-wide projects and groups as determined by the Senior Information Analyst.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.

Desirable criteria

Qualified in or experience of working with relational databases and information reporting packages.

Experience

Essential criteria

Analysing and engaging with Trust operational dat
Designing, developing and validating Reporting Services reports
Knowledge & experience of NHS informatics, including Mental Health datasets (e.g. MHSDS)

Desirable criteria

Experience of working with both relational and OLAP databases
Experience of writing up test cases and insert test values into UAT environments

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to grasp complex technical data requirements.
Data manipulation and analysis.
Well organised with a logical approach
Attention to detail.
Good written communication skills.
Good verbal communication skills
An ability to engender confidence in information in staff of the Trust
An ability to work in a stressful environment whilst maintaining personal calm and control.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.