Job summary
- Main area
- Data and Analytics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (‘Secondment only for current NHS employees’)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NW-6625372-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 3 Piccadilly Place
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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 of reporting.
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, taking into account 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
A 12 month maternity cover vacancy has arisen for a Senior Analyst in the North West region to lead on Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) insight and analysis.
With minimal supervision, the Senior Analyst will deliver a high-quality data analytics service to UEC colleagues across the North West using extensive knowledge of NHS data and excellent technical skills in data management, business intelligence and analytics.
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
Key responsibilities for this role:
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with key stakeholders.
- Oversight of UEC priorities, analytical requests, and delegating work to team members. Being responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time to quality standards.
- Consultation with key stakeholders including the regional director and deputy directors to produce a range of information and analysis to monitor performance, highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
- Providing regional representation at national meetings, contributing to design and development of products, relaying key strategies on processes and priorities to colleagues and customers.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
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 level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of triangulating data from different sources and demonstrate an appreciation of the differences that might occur in large datasets
- Awareness in project and programme management methodologies such as Prince 2, MSP and / or Agile
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Able to apply methods to explore presenting issue and identify key issues.
Skills
Essential 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)
- Experience in using a range of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, and SQL
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Irfan Patel
- Job title
- Senior Analyst
- Email address
- [email protected]
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