The MFT Data & Analytics department is a multi-disciplinary team of data Managers, Analysts, Engineers and Architects. The team is at the cutting edge of data and analytics in the largest healthcare provider organisation in the country. The Trust has recently implemented the Epic Electronic Patient Record and is now collecting a significant and comprehensive amount of data covering both administrative and clinical services. The Trust is seeking to capitalise on this opportunity through the Trust's new Data Strategy which will see a number of data and analytical capabilities implemented across the Trust as it aims to deliver better outcomes and improved through its data. There is also a new Digital Services team structure and target operating model that is being implemented to enable and deliver a new and exciting approach to data driven healthcare.
The Head of Analytics and Insights will be at the forefront of this transformation as a senior leader within the Digital Services team. Embracing the new data and analytical capabilities and realising the opportunities presented by the new Electronic Patient Record.
Lead and manage a team of highly skilled analysts.
Providing reporting and dashboards to key stakeholders and services in the Trust.
Provide analytics and insights to the key stakeholders and services in the Trust.
Provide advise and support regarding data and analytics to key stakeholders and services in the Trust.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To provide leadership and strategic planning in the provision of accurate, timely, and high-quality information, supporting the information requirements of the corporate, hospital, and clinical functions. The post holder will play a key role in delivering and embedding a data driven culture within the organisation, providing support to services and delivering innovative solutions. The post holder will provide the Trust with a wide range of specialist Information Service knowledge and experience, interpretation of national guidance for both Acute and Community
services, analysis and modelling, reporting, data warehouse and business intelligence. To lead programmes of improvement across a wide range of subject areas through the use of advanced analytics and business analysis. Support senior and executive management in analysis and delivery of key strategic programmes. Provide expertise in emerging technologies and
methodologies, supporting the continuous development of analytical resource within the Trust. The post holder must effectively communicate highly complex analytical and statistical results to a range of internal and external staff, guiding them through recommendations and actions,
conveying statistical concepts clearly, and delivering complex statistical presentations to large groups. This will include the provision of written reports and presentations, using innovative and forward-thinking techniques to present both narrative and data. The post holder will lead the development necessary to support the Trust objectives, support clinical research, improvements in patient flow and care. Responsible for the formulation of long-term plans and strategic direction of the Analytics and
Insight function for the Trust. The post holder will lead on the planning and development of the necessary policy, process, tools, and resource to handle high variety, volume, and velocity data analytics and reporting.
The post holder will act as a project manager; ensuring projects are delivered on time and meet expectation. The post holder will ensure effective communication of conclusions and recommendations across the organisation’s leadership structure.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for the Business Intelligence Manager, Business Partner Manager and Data Scientist.
Budgetary management for the Business Analysis function.
Responsibility for overseeing the Trusts activity planning process.
Translate and implement national guidance from NHSI, NHSD, NHSE performance frameworks and Payment by Results guidance.
Work in collaboration with the Data Scientist on developing and implementing data science as a capability across the Information Services department and wider Trust.Ensure there is active and visible support to Hospital Services on all information and data matters. The post holder will undertake duties of an unpredictable and highly complex nature in
the course of their duties in the provision of specialist skills relating to data analytics and insights, and their application across the Trust. The post holder will, in the course of their duties need to
interpret, analyse, and synthesize data into results and findings that can be understood by nontechnical colleagues. Produce insightful reporting through the extraction, analysis, and interpretation of a range of
information and analysis from the Trust’s data warehouse. The post holder must effectively communicate highly complex analytical and statistical results to a range of internal and external
staff, guiding them through recommendations and actions, conveying statistical concepts clearly, and delivering complex statistical presentations to large groups. This will include the provision of written reports and presentations, using innovative and forward-thinking techniques to present both narrative and data. Provide expert knowledge and guidance to Information Services and the wider Trust on NHS data standards and how operational services are represented through meaningful and insightful data and information. To define, lead, and project manage the delivery of information services work programmes and service improvements through the Principle Analyst team; ensuring deliverables meets the Trusts aims and objectives. The post holder will need to share delivery progress and present potentially complex analytical information to multiple senior stakeholders across the Trust and within formal
governance forums. They will need to respond proactively to address blockers such as ambiguity or changes in end user requirements.
The post holder will need to be able to respond appropriately to queries or challenge, demonstrating strong stakeholder management skills to manage the contentious nature of the communication and partnerships across group and to hospital/MCS/LCO executive teams. In some instances, delivery will be re-prioritised which may mean that items scheduled for delivery for a particular hospital or LCO may be delayed or added to a backlog which will not be well received but will need to be relayed.
Work with clinical teams on producing key performance indicators underpinning the clinical effectiveness and patient safety agendas. Supporting clinicians in understanding and relating their clinical services through information and analysis. Deliver a programme of work supporting the delivery of the Trust’s Accountability Oversight Framework (AOF), ensuring there are programmes of work underpinning the metrics by which
each hospital site is monitored by. Deliver a focused programme of monitoring and improvement across the Trust’s Key Performance Indicators e.g., RTT / AE / Cancer. Engaging with colleagues from the Performance and hospital sites. Provide cause and effect reporting support performance improvement and service transformation, underpinning service and corporate work programmes. This will require the post holder to respond to sudden unexpected demands, for example providing guidance and specialist technical skills to enable new returns at national level or addressing a clinical need within the locality, whilst
managing existing competing pressures at the same time within their service delivery. Be responsible for supporting remediation and recovery activities where there may not be a precedent; identifying and addressing under-performing delivery aspects and providing guidance to their operational team to help bring them back on track. Provide support to the service line reporting work programme alongside colleagues in the Finance
Department and the Clinical Divisions ensuring the reporting is accurate. The postholder will need to proactively engage and drive the activity of a range of stakeholders, directly within their
functional team and across different disciplines within the department and the wider organisational context. They will need to respond proactively to address blockers such as ambiguity or changes in end user requirements.
Review anomalies concerning the Trust performance regarding patient safety alerts which includes mortality reviews and payment by results. This will involve providing reporting to the Clinical Effectiveness Committee and also the Trusts Mortality meeting
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Jan 2025
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