Job summary
- Main area
- Data and Information
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Regional cross-site working, home working and access to office space in each ISDN as needed)
- Job ref
- 190-7867-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- sheffield
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/07/2024
Employer heading
Regional ISDN Information and Data Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Integrated Stroke Delivery Networks (ISDNs) are an integral part of the NHS Long Term Plan and National Stroke Programme and work to improve the quality of stroke care across the whole stroke pathway using a collaborative approach to service improvement and implementation of patient centred, evidence based transformational change.
Information and data are key to identifying and prioritising areas that require focused support alongside a national requirement of all stroke care providers to submit data to the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme database.
The Regional ISDN Information and Data Lead will work alongside three ISDNs in Humber & North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to improve the collection, reporting and accuracy of data by providers and develop more effective monitoring of data associated with stroke care delivery to inform the changes required to improve outcomes.
This role will support the delivery of following benefits:
- Improved clinical outcomes
- Improved clinical quality
- Improved service models
- Best use of resources
- Better patient and staff experience
The role will work closely with all three ISDN Managers and the wider network teams under the supervision and leadership of the SY ISDN Manager. The post will involve regional cross-site working, home working with access to office space in each ISDN as needed
Main duties of the job
The Data Lead will work as a key member of the ISDN teams across the geographical footprint supporting effective data processing and stakeholder management, both internally and externally.
The Data Lead will coordinate efforts within and across the ISDNs to ensure the reporting of accurate and reliable data, including chairing stakeholder meetings, identifying and ensuring specific actions are undertaken to improve current practice and reporting progress. They will be responsible for the development, facilitation and implementation of data related improvement activities and projects.
The postholder will develop relationships with key stakeholders including those from provider, commissioning and third sector organisations, to facilitate and lead collaboration that supports a common approach to stroke care data optimisation across the ISDNs footprint.
The Data Lead will oversee day-to-day delivery of analytical products, from initial receipt and preparation of data through to analysis and interpretation of the data to support pathway transformation providing high quality information and analytical support to the ISDN teams.
The post holder will collect data from internal and external sources, design & provide information that is accurate and complete within agreed timescales and meet internal and external requirements. This could include activity, access targets, capacity management, governance, benchmarking and patient experience measurement.
Working for our organisation
The role will be hosted by SY ISDN on behalf of Humber & North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ISDNs. SYISDN is hosted by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The SY ISDN is accountable to a Senior Responsible Officer, the ICB via the Acute Federation and the Regional Stroke Delivery Board.
ISDNs bring key stakeholders together to facilitate a collaborative approach to service improvement of stroke services that is patient centred, evidenced based and focused on delivering transformational change. ISDN objectives include:
- Provision of robust clinical and programme leadership and support
- Developing a strategic approach to improving local clinical pathways for stroke care in line with the national stroke service specification and other relevant guidelines/policies.
- Ensuring effective patient flows and care pathways
- Facilitating effective collaborative working between stroke stakeholders to ensure there is a whole pathway approach
- Identifying and managing cross-boundary and border issues and patient flows
- Ensuring full engagement with the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme and monitoring performance of local services
- Horizon scanning
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 12 months due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the .external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Education to a Master’s degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge and/or equivalent specialist experience, backed up by additional and continual professional development.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Government Statistical Group Membership
- Other qualifications relevant to the role: e.g. Project management qualification (Agile Practitioner, Prince II or APM
- Evidence of leadership and management training and / or qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the public sector/An understanding of the Health and Social Care system.
- Experience of providing subject matter expertise and guidance to support in the development of clear, specific customer service requirements, managing scope changes to ensure successful project delivery.
- Significant experience of leading on a range of projects, including the allocation of work to other staff, to deliver quality outcomes to deadline and identifying risks.
- Experience developing processes and procedures to ensure the effective, efficient and robust collection of data.
- Experience of overseeing analytical product delivery including the regular production of statistical products and publications using best of breed visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI)
- Experience of working in and leading a multidisciplinary team using agile methodologies and develop technical staff.
- Extensive and wide-ranging knowledge of health and care data sources, how to link them to generate meaningful insights, and the ability to identify solutions to close data and knowledge gaps, working closely with external stakeholders including partners and Commissioning Support Units.
- Experience of analysing complex policies and guidance and turning them into tangible actions and outputs
- Experience of change management, service improvement or practice improvement with demonstrated commitment to continuous quality improvement
- Experience of establishing, leading and managing successful programmes and programme teams; delivering in a complex environmen
- Experience of forging strong collaborative relationships, to improve quality, experience and cost effectiveness
- Experience of deciphering and communicating complex issues to a range of different audiences including statutory bodies and groups, public meetings and the media.
- Expertly leading the production of key reports and papers to positively influence and support strategic decisions across whole systems
- Experience of sharing best practice to benefit others
- Experience of developing and negotiating KPIs or measurable outcomes
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced specialist knowledge of analytical and requirements gathering skills
- Knowledge and experience in interpreting results from complex analysis, apply the results to the given problem and suggest conclusions to be drawn.
- Specialised knowledge of databases including database structure and database interrogation tools.
- Ability to manipulate and link large datasets and analyse data from databases
- Demonstrable understanding of the NHS principal values as set out in the NHS constitution.
- Financially literate with the ability to critically review, challenge and effectively utilise financial information for effective decision-making.
- Developed knowledge of professional standards (including Code of Practice for Statistics, Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act) and their application
- Developed knowledge of a wide range of data quality issues and the application of the appropriate data validation techniques
- Knowledge of policy developments in the health and social care domain and the wider statistical context specific to the business area
- Knowledge of project or service management practices, tools and techniques and effective risk management.
- Specialist knowledge of the data within their care domain and a good working knowledge of data available within NHS and the wider Heath and Social care Domain
- Ability to ensure quality, value and compliance with professional standards for a team’s output and take accountability for this.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to exercise sound judgment and the confidence to question and challenge information from others (who may be experts in their field) to achieve objectives.
- Demonstrate the ability to gain the confidence of senior system leaders including CEOs, executive directors and local politicians.
- Ability to demonstrate insight to understand the limits of his or her own competence and the wisdom to seek advice from others when these are reached
- Ability to use critical reflection to develop understanding of self and others to improve performance and effectiveness
- Ability to inspire and lead others and be a role model and work successfully as part of a wider team.
- Intellectual capacity and application to be able to think conceptually, to plan flexibly, to look for continual ways to improve, find solutions within an emerging and extremely ambiguous context to deliver results
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn quickly in areas outside one’s own experience – whether that be the provider environment, the strategic commissioning context, the policy environment, the future of primary care or developing landscape on integrated care.
- Sensitivity and organisational skills to operate expertly and effectively in senior forums and across whole systems, complex work cultures and environments.
- Strategic and politically astute and the ability to learn how to navigate six partner organisations, alongside the voluntary and voice sector, whilst building networks and relationships for influence.
Travel
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel as required across the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw region / Yorkshire and the Humber
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gaynor Radley
- Job title
- SY ISDN Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07881620763
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