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About
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our skilled employees across our hospital sites in Coventry and Rugby, with high quality patient care positioned at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a national and international leader in healthcare.
We provide general acute hospital services to approximately 500,000 people from Coventry and Rugby and specialist hospital services to over one million people from Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. The Trust has a revenue budget of approximately £473 million, we employ over 10,000 staff, manage 1,380 beds and 32 operating theatres.
The Trust is made up of the following hospitals:
University Hospital Coventry
Hospital of St Cross – Rugby
Lead Analytical Developer
Accepting applications until: 09-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- University Hospital Coventry
- Cyfeiriad
- Clifford Bridge Road
- Tref
- Coventry
- Cod post
- CV2 2DX
- Major / Minor Region
- Warwickshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Performance & Informatics
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 30/07/2024
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The post holder will be joining our Performance & Informatics (P&I) department who are well respected and the largest of our corporate services. The P&I portfolio encompasses Business Intelligence & Informatics, Corporate Performance, Information Systems Development, Clinical Coding, Data Quality, Patient Access, Cancer Services and Analytical Development.
P&I work cross functionally to support the Trusts operational delivery of both national and internal targets which ensures the highest standards of patient care are delivered. A robust Performance Management Framework is embedded across UHCW that tracks and evaluates progress and supports both operational and clinical governance frameworks.
New opportunities at a national level are being developed by P&I in areas of health inequality, waiting list management and system working. Most notably working innovatively to develop the ‘Health Equity and the Right to Treatment’ (HEARTT) tool which culminated in being awarded the ‘Innovation and Improvement in Reducing Healthcare Inequalities Award 2022’ and being recognised with the ‘Best Healthcare Analytics Award 2024’ for the collaborative work alongside IBM and Celonis regarding Outpatient Optimisation and Patient Engagement at the prestigious Health Service Journal Awards.
*** Please be advised that interviews are proposed for 30th July 2024 ***
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Alongside the Head of Analytical Development, you will be responsible for delivering high quality and effective analytical support to the wider organisation. This will include scheduled reports at agreed intervals, highlighting areas of improvement as well as challenge, making recommendations for improvements and supporting transformational projects.
The post holder is required to consider a wide range of factors and propose solutions which allow the organisation to have confidence in its use of data and information. Consistently demonstrating professional and structured approach the post holder will lead and develop a team to support the Trust extract greater value from its data resources and develop its business.
The post holder will have strong leadership and management skills to build and maintain a World Class analytics service, utilising the best available technology and attracting and developing the best available talent.
Data is one of the most important assets of any organisation and this is especially true within UHCW. Business Intelligence & Informatics capabilities are instrumental to driving operational delivery and performance, so this is an exciting opportunity to continue developing a business intelligence culture within the Trust.
To be an effective leader within the Business Intelligence & Informatics team to ensure the organisations data needs are fully understood and proposed solutions implemented through effective communication with key stakeholders.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
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· Provide overall strategic management and be responsible for the development of the data warehouse and development of analytical infrastructure and capability.
· Oversee systems support ensuring the continuous maintenance and smooth-running of databases to support Trust clinical and non-clinical applications, including database security, test and live environments, adherence with backup recovery strategies and monitoring, and optimisation of database performance.
· Ensure database maintenance including effective co-ordination and communication with a range of organisations and individuals.
· Build relationships with service users/clients and develop service improvement plans based on user discussion and SLAs.
· To lead on current and future Trust reporting needs utilising the technology available locally and technological advances.
· Act as the primary contact for service users throughout the Trust and to be the named Senior Manager for one or more clinical or corporate divisions ensuring a coordinated approach to delivery.
· Regularly evaluate the level of support provided by the team and continuously refine our approach to meet individual needs of each care group/directorate within the structure of the wider informatics and business intelligence strategy.
· Ensure business continuity and resilience in support of groups/directorates.
· To ensure that the Trust uses sophisticated analysis techniques and performance management to monitor and report on progress against targets and identify where improvements can be achieved ensuring effective and efficient delivery of services can take place.
· Lead on the research, development and management of technologies and innovations to best facilitate greater utilisation of Trust information by all end users and demonstrating the benefits of new hardware and software technologies to support the operational, business and management aspects of the Trust.
· Maintain and develop dynamic activity, demand and capacity models that allow identification of service needs (short and long term), exploring multiple scenarios with clear activity and associated capacity/workforce outputs.
· Support and promote continuous evaluation of existing services and develop alternatives that offer greater benefits through effective collaboration.
· Promote analysis of need, and an ongoing search for appropriate responses that are innovative in their design and implementation.
· Establish excellent relationships with clinical staff, leaders and external stakeholders, promoting joint working with health economy partners and other agencies.
· To work with all members of the wider P&I team and other teams responsible for Performance to ensure that all areas of Performance are monitored effectively and consistently.
· To deliver training and engagement exercises with a wide range of staff to identify need and support users in making best use of BI.
· Effectively present performance insights to a wide range of staffing as required.
· Develop constructive working relationships with group/directorate management and clinical teams to ensure that a performance focused culture through assurance of safety, quality, and effectiveness.
· To clearly articulate and ‘translate’ the methodology and output of the departments work.
· Make and support others in making highly complex business judgements involving facts or situations that require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options (for example as part of development of business cases).
· Exercise sound judgment in the analysis of complex issues, providing realistic options for improvement.
· Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation, and evaluation of specific tasks/projects by undertaking complex and detailed information analysis, communications, and stakeholder management.
· Lead, monitor, mentor, coach and support the informatics and business intelligence teams through appraisal, regular supervision, identifying training needs and sharing knowledge and experience to help develop the competency of others and encouraging and developing teamwork.
· Take a lead role in interpreting guidance in areas of key responsibility and implement key policy/guidance initiatives.
· Undertake any internal or external training courses required by the role, as well as mandatory training in line with UHCW policy.
· Be aware of, and abide by, Trust policies across the whole business.
· Alongside the Head of Analytical Development, lead the team to actively support all aspects of the organisation’s performance agenda with appropriate consideration to national and local pressures and the Trusts strategic direction.
· The post holder will be responsible for the architectural design, development and management of a data warehouse environment and applications used for analytics and reporting.
· In-depth knowledge of IT application development and database analysis.
· To embed an innovative team ethos working closely with the wider P&I leads, heads of service and deputy heads of service to make the best use of technical solutions available to meet user needs.
· To be a key resource for the support of service transformation ensuring a robust evidence base is captured to allow ongoing evaluation.
· To provide expert support for Commercial Business Development opportunities including business case development and business planning.
· To embed robust quality assurance processes to ensure performance data is robust and explanations for variances are understood and noted before publication.
· Promote techniques and approaches to help services identify variance of significance.
· Understand the strategic direction of the Trust in order to support effective planning and performance delivery.
· Work with leaders and staff in groups/directorates to raise the profile of performance delivery and ensure wide communication of performance issues. Consequently, advanced communication and documentation skills and a highly developed command of the English language are required.
· Ensure effective support for operational directorates within the Trusts Performance Management Framework including the production of papers and attendance.
· Promote awareness of national and local targets and ensure a consistent approach within the organisation.
· Develop a thorough understanding of operational process, ensuring measures applied are an accurate reflection of good patient care in line with the trust’s values and objectives.
· To establish relevant communication with all levels of service management to enable collection of robust data, and to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
· To effectively challenge gaps in policies, processes, and data quality with supporting plans of how to address.
· Lead on and be responsible for the development and delivery of reporting mechanisms to support the Trusts Senior Management, Service Managers and Clinical Leads and to report to the Trust and external stakeholders.
· Develop strategic approaches to the reporting of variances in performance, ensuring appropriate action is taken to support improvements and minimise risks of not achieving targets.
· Make recommendations and support audits as identified through performance management processes.
· To ensure that performance data is available by agreed deadlines and has been through a strict quality assurance programme.
· Maintain own personal and continuing professional development through active participation in annual appraisals, monthly supervision, one to ones, training, reflection, mentorship, coaching, professional organisations, and personal networks. Identify own development needs and set own personal and professional development objectives in discussion with one’s Line Manager/reviewer.
· To undertake any other duties as required in accordance with the grade and nature of the post.
For further details of the job role please see attached job description.
To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Qualifications
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Experience
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Knowledge
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Skills
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Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Christopher Clark
- Teitl y swydd
- Head of Analytical Development
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 02476966642
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