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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

About
Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Head of Data and Analytics
Closed for applications on: 14-Feb-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 14-Feb-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- GDS
- Address
- 200 Great Dover Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 4YB
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Finance
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
On behalf of the Associate Director for Costing, Data & Analytics, the post-holder is responsible for leadership in the development and delivery of the Trust’s Operational Productivity Unit. They will lead on the regular assessment of Trust performance and will have a role in working with finance and operational colleagues to deliver actionable improvement. The Operational Productivity Unit is a recently established team within the Finance department, established to embed annual efficiency and productivity gains. The Unit is tasked with three roles:
• Work with Clinical Groups and Corporate functions to provide insights and intelligence for productivity opportunities, including demand and activity data;
• Provide regular, central monitoring and reporting of opportunities both for executive review and to support decision making across Clinical Groups and Corporate functions.
• Support capability and efficiency literacy.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join a team at the heart of GSTT. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to lead the Operational Productivity Unit to drive improvements in both productivity and efficiency.
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The post holder will establish and maintain close working relationship with key stakeholders across the Trust, particularly those in the Clinical and Corporate Groups and members of the Finance, Health Informatics and Clinical Analytics teams.
A collaborative approach with clinical and operational colleagues will be a key part to drive change and improve outcomes, efficiency and satisfaction of both patients and staff.
The post holder will:
• build and manage collaborative relationships across the health system, including internal and external teams, providers and clinical experts, and challenging external partners and stakeholders, to ensure analyses are relevant to their needs.
• engage with teams across the Trust, including the improvement, transformation, and innovation teams to deliver analytic insight to improve care value and quality and facilitate data-driven decision-making.
• directly line manage, motivate and develop staff as appropriate, and work with members of the Operational Productivity Unit to develop, refine and implement project data collection systems,
• lead the development of advanced analytics and modelling approaches in conjunction with programmes with understanding of key business performance levers.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will work with members of the Clinical and Corporate Groups to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions, contributing to performance improvement, and taking a lead for specific areas where agreed.
The post holder will assist the Trust Executive, the Operational Productivity Unit and Clinical/ Corporate Group Divisional Management Teams in the development of the analytics with central teams and identifying future opportunities as they arise. They will also support the creation and delivery of long-term strategic plans for the introduction of new and changed practices within London services, work in a matrix management style and foster close working relations with other managers within the NHS in London.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We urge all candidates to read in full the attached job description and person specification for all details, to ensure they have the essential skills required for this role.
If you would like to discuss the opportunity, please feel free to contact Johannes Wolff (Associate Director) on [email protected]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCAB Professional Qualification (or equivalent) with extensive post qualification experience is a senior role within the NHS.
- CPD record complying with membership of relative accounting body.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further postgraduate study (eg MBA)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive senior financial management experience.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of the NHS financial environment.
- Understanding of the financial requirements of a Foundation Trusts.
- Experience of applying analytically derived conclusions to drive change.
Desirable criteria
- Considerable staff management experience.
- Extensive experience of working with data sets, ideally in a public sector/ NHS setting.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advises senior budget holders and finance managers over financial performance, persuading them to a certain course of action.
- Develops and delivers formal, complex financial presentations (i.e. multi-faceted business cases) to large groups of (often senior) non-finance managers and conveys financial concepts clearly and persuasively.
Desirable criteria
- Develops and maintains working relationships with key stakeholders internally within and external to the Trust.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
Skills (cont'd)
Essential criteria
- Excellent IT skills including Microsoft e.g. Microsoft Office, integrated financial ledger system, costing systems, databases.
- Analytical mind with proven experience of dealing with significant volumes of complex data.
Desirable criteria
- Wide knowledge of NHS systems (financial and non-financial)
- Strong leadership qualities.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Johannes Wolff
- Job title
- Director of Operational Productivity Unit
- Email address
- [email protected]
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