Job summary
- Main area
- Information
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF16663-B6-A
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Information Analyst
Band 6
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a skilled, motivated and confident analyst to join the trusts developing Informatics team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team that is in the process of creating a digital platform to support the Trusts Divisions enhancing the patient’s experience. This post will provide direct support to operational management, and corporate services colleagues, ensuring accurate and detailed insights driving the key decisions made by the Trust.
You should have the ability to create and maintain information reports, providing analytical commentary to staff of all abilities, on a routine and ad-hoc basis, networking with the relevant key stakeholders to source/define/analyse the data required.
You must possess excellent IT, communication, numerical and analytical skills, with excellent knowledge and ability within Excel and SQL, knowledge of SSRS, Qlikview and Power BI would be an advantage, but not essential.
The post requires the successful candidate to be flexible, able to work under pressure and be adaptable to changing requirements and deadlines.
Main duties of the job
The post holder provides a high quality information service to clinicians and service managers including providing regular and ad hoc reporting and delivery of reporting projects. The post holder also carries out duties in line with the Trusts statutory duties to provide regular, timely and accurate data to external parties such as NHS England and Freedom of Information requests.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In order to advise on a range of Health Informatics the post holder will have had in depth experience of information analysis and will have developed highly specialised knowledge within the NHS or healthcare setting.
The post holder will play a key role in proactively developing the effective use and interpretation of information to support strategy, policy and operational performance of a division within the Trust.
Presentation and analysis of clinical and management information to support business planning and performance improvement.
The role encompasses collation, analysis and interpretation of information across a wide variety of operational services, development of routine and ad hoc reports presented in a clear and understandable format and supporting managers and clinicians in defining their information requirements to meet strategic, operational and clinical needs. It involves also management of substantial areas of work under own initiative.
To provide a high quality information management service and engage with clinicians, senior managers and colleagues from a wide range of teams and services to support them in their use and interpretation of information.
Liaison with a wide range of stakeholders to identify information needs and the provision of information to meet these requirements.
Interpretation and implementation of national/local policy and guidance from an information management perspective.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent level of knowledge/relevant work experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in information related or analytical role
- Significant experience of data analysis and interpretation
- Experience of presenting information in written reports so that it can be easily understood
- Experience in the use of database extraction tools to develop complex queries
- Experience of pulling together data from a wide range of sources and presenting information in a meaningful way
- Knowledge of mandatory reporting requirements for acute providers and NHS data standards
Desirable criteria
- Experience of analysing data in a Secondary Care context
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Bunyan
- Job title
- Appointing Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you are interested in this role, please apply using the links below. For any further information please contact [email protected].
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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