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Analyst
Closed for applications on: 30-Jul-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 30-Jul-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- South West House
- Address
- Blackbrook Park Avenue
- Town
- Taunton
- Postcode
- TA1 2PX
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Analytics
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.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
The Insights and Intelligence Team is an analytical service supporting NHS England by providing information, analysis and analytical support. We have an aim of 'do once and automate' wherever possible and therefore produce South West Regional products for use by the centre and locally. This approach reduces the analytical overhead enabling us to support local analysis where required and ensures consistency of reporting across the South West region.
This role is a key part of the Analytical Delivery Team. With support from other team members, this role will lead on one or more programme or large topic area, becoming a subject matter expert and liaising with specific programme teams to support them with their analytical needs, as well as supporting others within the analytical delivery team.
This role will often work as part of multi-disciplinary ‘squads’, made up of colleagues, both internal and external to the Insights and Intelligence team, to deliver on projects that require a range of skills and knowledge.
In consideration of the national competency framework this role will most closely align to the Data analyst job family at Senior Practitioner level. The specialisms expected to strongly feature within the Analytical Delivery team are Descriptive & Explicative Analytics and Business Analysis, as well as Communication and Patient & Customer service competencies within the Behaviours ancillary framework.
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This role is based in the Analytical Delivery work area. This team will be the main point of contact for most customers, responding to ad hoc requests and working with the other functions to support customers with insightful analysis. It will include the subject matter expertise, with named leads for each key area, providing primarily descriptive and diagnostic analytical support to regional teams, regional programmes and ICBs. Products will include descriptive analysis, decision support, causal analysis and analytical advice and guidance. Analysis will be both strategic and operational and include the translation of existing national and regional products.
This team will work with the other 3 Insights and intelligence core functions in a collaborative and seamless way using a ‘team of teams’ approach.
Core functions of this team include:
- Analytical Subject Matter Experts
- Provide Descriptive and Diagnostic Analysis
- Understanding & Anticipating Requirements
- Identify Improvement Opportunities
- Navigating products
- Initiation & interpretation of in-depth analysis
- Liaison with other Data & Analytics teams
- Relationship manager / Main Point of Contact for Customers
- Prioritising work within subject areas
- Owners of product lifecycle
- Support Knowledge into Action
- Programme Managers / Interface
- Horizon scanning
- Problem Structuring
- Descriptive and diagnostic analysis
- Descriptive Statistics
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 a team of senior analytical managers within the Insights and Intelligence 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.
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.
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.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
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.
- Experience with relevant analysis software including Microsoft Excel.
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline.
- Able to peer review others work and consistently exhibit best practice of quality assurance in own work.
- Understands the principles of evaluation.
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
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.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Understanding of the public sector.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Microsoft Project, Prince 2 and Agile Methodologies
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
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.
- 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.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- 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
- 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
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- 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.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
Documents
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 448.6KB)
- Occupational Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 69.8KB)
- Assignment Brief (PDF, 792.3KB)
- NHSE - Verification of ID and RTW Guide (PDF, 306.6KB)
- Guide to Completing Your Application (DOCX, 42.7KB)
- Note for Existing NHS Employees applying for Fixed Term vacancies (DOCX, 26.2KB)
- Redundancy Clawback (PDF, 16.7KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marcus Albano
- Job title
- Head of Analysis
- Email address
- [email protected]
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