Job summary
- Main area
- Analyst
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-COO-6793959-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2024 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
Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Do you want to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Working in NHS England’s Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you’ll do.
Working with patients, clinicians, charities and across the public sector, the Cancer Programme aim is to reduce preventable cancers, diagnose cancer earlier, increase survival and improve the quality of life and experience for cancer patients. We develop national policy and strategy, and work with our Cancer Alliances across the country to transform services for patients.
This is an exciting time for the Cancer Programme. Recovering Cancer services and waiting times is a key priority for the Cancer Programme and the NHS and it is essential that Alliances and the Programme have timely, easy to digest and impactfully presented data to drive recovery; address the growing backlog; and improve patient care. This post offers excellent opportunities to work in a dynamic analytical team, supporting the high profile, and fast-paced evaluation work in the Cancer Programme.
The Cancer Programme Team takes its responsibility to promote equality and diversity seriously. We respect colleagues from diverse backgrounds and embrace diverse cultural preferences in everything we do
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Analyst in the evaluation team. The role offers excellent opportunities to work in a dynamic team of analysts to produce and use data and analysis to monitor progress and drive transformation in Cancer Services, through monitoring and evaluation. Partnership working will be crucial to the role, working closely with Cancer Alliances, the Cancer Programme Team and analysts across the system to ensure alignment of work and priorities.
The post offers excellent opportunities to support a team of Lead Analysts and Senior Analysts (Bands 8b/8a) in the provision of timely data, analysis, and evidence to Cancer Alliances across the country.
Please note this vacancy can be based within one of NHS England’s offices in Bristol, London or Leeds.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsibilities include supporting the Senior/Lead Analysts to:
- Develop and implement comprehensive research and evaluation plans for new projects and initiatives across the Cancer programme and Cancer Alliances in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Develop logic models and implement a Theory of Change for programmes of work across the Cancer Programme and Cancer Alliances
- Build and manage collaborative relationships across the health system, with Cancer Alliances; clinical experts and the National Cancer Programme to identify strategic priorities ensuring analyses are relevant to needs.
- Design, carry out, commission and manage large scale internal and external research and evaluation projects and programmes.
- Undertake research activities such as secondary data analysis, reviews of existing evidence base, qualitative analysis and evaluation from a variety of sources.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an understanding of research and evaluation techniques including the quality and reliability of sources and data
- Experience of triangulating data and research from different sources and demonstrate an appreciation of differences that might occur
- Able to peer review others work and consistently exhibit best practice of quality assurance in own work
Skills and capabilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of familiarity with and application of statistical techniques beyond those of descriptive statistics. For example, standardisation and confidence intervals.
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject (such as Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Operational Research, Social Research or a related quantitative or qualitative analytical discipline) or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jess Abell
- Job title
- Senior Analyst
- Email address
- [email protected]
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