Job summary
- Main area
- Business & Projectes
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NW-6453015-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any North West Offices (Manchester, Liverpool, Preston)
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 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 Analytics team is an analytical service supporting North West Region by providing information, analysis and analytical support. We have an aim of 'do once and automate' wherever possible. This approach reduces the analytical overhead enabling us to support local analysis where required and ensures consistency.
Example projects include:
- Supporting NHS planning by collecting and assuring plans to ensure that the Health system can commission the care their patients need within the resources they have available
- Monitoring and assurance of delivery against plan within the NHS, considering seasonal planning and resilience. This allows us to understand the true performance of the NHS and identify areas of good or poor performance.
- Developing new indicators to monitor performance, this can involve working with policy leads, commissioners, providers, and other organisations to identify, create and test indicators.
- Assurance of the Health system via the development of indicators across performance, outcomes, and patient experience
- Modelling and in-depth analysis to support the delivery of the long-term plan and to tailor analysis to the relevant regional or national audience.
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 North West functions. The post holder will support a team of senior analytical managers within the Analytics 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
The post holder will support the Head of Department and their team to ensure that their work stream of programmes is planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
- Manage the team’s business support function, including developing and managing the team’s business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management.
- Liaise with appropriate functions within the regions, organisation and the Sector.
- Manage all corporate business returns, including planning and workforce returns.
- Develop and implement a content management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, directorate and the wider NHS organisation.
- Take a lead in the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the team.
- Oversight and management of all aspects of the team/ project budge
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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.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Knowledge
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
- Experience with relevant analysis software including Microsoft Excel.
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness in project and programme management methodologies such as Prince 2, MSP and / or Agile
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of familiarity with and application of statistical techniques beyond those of descriptive statistics. For example, standardisation and confidence intervals.
- Able to build and document complicated and varied types of models including forecasting models.
- Experience in using a range of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, and SQL
- Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Desirable criteria
- 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)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ian Williams
- Job title
- Senior Analytical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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