Job summary
- Main area
- Analyst
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-MIDE-6427944-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- County Hall, Glenfield (flexible across the Midlands)
- Town
- Leicester
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Midlands Analytical Team are looking for a Analyst to bring their skills to lead analysis in the region to improve patient care for the 10.6m population. We are a team of 25 individuals with a range of skill sets across the spectrum of data infrastructure, data presentation and advanced analytical methods. As an Analyst, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic analytical community supporting managers and staff across all of NHS England functions.
The post holder will support a team of senior analytical managers within the Midlands Regional Analytical Team which will provide strategic analysis for insight into NHS performance and evidence to support decision-making.
In particular the post holder will:
· Demonstrate knowledge and established practice of a variety and depth of analytical techniques (including advanced Excel skills) to provide quality, timely analysis and intelligence relating to key priorities of NHS England. These priorities will include assurance and accountability, commissioning, transformation, quality and safety, finance and policy and strategy development.
· Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, to analyse and triangulate data in innovative ways and present findings clearly to a range of audiences. Understand the importance of maintaining quality within analysis.
The team are hybrid working, with core bases in Birmingham, Leicester and Derby. Some work-related travel is expected.
Main duties of the job
As an Analyst, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic analytical community supporting managers and staff across all of NHS England functions.
The post holder will support a team of senior analytical managers within the Midlands Regional Analytical Team which will provide strategic analysis for insight into NHS performance and evidence to support decision-making.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In particular the post holder will:
- Demonstrate knowledge and established practice of a variety and depth of analytical techniques (including advanced Excel skills) to provide quality, timely analysis and intelligence relating to key priorities of NHS England. These priorities will include assurance and accountability, commissioning, transformation, quality and safety, finance and policy and strategy development.
- Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, to analyse and triangulate data in innovative ways and present findings clearly to a range of audiences. Understand the importance of maintaining quality within analysis.
- Be able to largely drive their own work programme, providing guidance and review of other’s work and contributing appropriately to the overall strategy.
- Have excellent communication skills and be able to influence people with different perspectives to get the most out of stakeholder relationships.
- Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed, and delivered effectively, be calm under pressure and able to juggle competing priorities and tight deadlines. Effectively manage risks and interdependencies to deliver their own work programme and anticipate and communicate the impact on other’s work areas.
- Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and projects.
- Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally
- Have sound knowledge of NHS data and business processes, and good technical skills in data management, business intelligence and analytics, including data modelling, data visualisation with a focus on building self-service analytics solutions which will allow business users to analyse data themselves.
- Strive for personal and professional development by seeking membership of professional analytical organisations such as AphA, BCS and/or Fedip.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject (such as Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Operational Research, or a related quantitative or analytical discipline) or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area.
- Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an understanding of datasets and data sources including the quality and reliability of the data.
- Experience of triangulating data from different sources and demonstrate an appreciation of the differences that might occur in large datasets.
- Able to peer review others work and consistently exhibit best practice of quality assurance in own work.
- Awareness in project and programme management methodologies such as Prince 2, MSP and / or Agile
- Evidence of continued professional development.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of familiarity with and application of statistical techniques beyond those of descriptive statistics. For example, standardisation and confidence intervals.
- Actively researches work area before starting a new project and regularly updates research to inform direction and technical aspects.
- Experience of cost benefit or cost consequence analysis.
- Able to build and document complicated and varied types of models including forecasting performance.
- Experience in using a range of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, and SQL
- Technical skills in data management, business intelligence and analytics – including data modelling, data visualisation (e.g., Tableau and Qlik) and data blending (e.g., Alteryx and SSIS) along with other supporting tools (e.g., Microsoft BI stack)
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Muneeb Sidyot
- Job title
- Senior Analytical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783812919
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