Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
NUH is looking to hire an Advanced Analyst (Band 7) to join our Family Health analytical team. This role primarily involves providing analytical expertise and support to the Family Health Division with a focus on Maternity.
The Family Health Analytical team is looking for someone with strong SQL skills, and also has significant experience of working with R and collaborating across teams to ensure reproducible outputs.
The Advanced Analyst will be responsible for delivering analytical expertise, presenting high-quality data, and providing tailored system support.
Interviews for this post will be taking place onsite
Main duties of the job
Provide high-level expertise in the analysis and presentation of complex healthcare data to deliver actionable insights for a wide range of audiences.
Lead projects by:
1. Collaborating with users to understand requirements, identifying data sources, and selecting appropriate analytical techniques.
2. Generating specifications and planning analytical projects.
3. Designing metrics and establishing measurement requirements to demonstrate success.
4. Designing and delivering analysis for evaluation, identifying appropriate data sources and methods.
5. Developing tools to support data capture, extraction, linkage, analysis, and presentation.
6. Offering expert advice to senior managers on system management/data/analytical issues, including techniques and accurate interpretation.
About us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavor to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Job responsibilities
Please familiarize yourself with the Job Description and Person Specification attachments located within the supporting documents section of this advert. These documents will provide a comprehensive overview for this role.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience
* Masters or above in relevant fields e.g. informatics, analysis, statistics, or operational research
Experience
* Proven experience working within an Information or analysis role
* Detailed analysis & validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance of complex organizations and to help identify opportunities for improvement.
* Highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience in using statistical & analytical techniques and information analysis, acquired through degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level / or equivalent relevant experience
* Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence - including understanding of a range of additional data analysis querying tools (e.g. MS SQL etc)
* Experience in developing tools using Business Intelligence software (e.g. Qlikview, SSRS)
* Experience of developing and maintaining code using R
* Experience of using Git to collaboratively develop and maintain code.
* Detailed knowledge & understanding of Health Informatics - including healthcare datasets (particularly secondary care), data quality, national strategic control mechanisms for data management, definitional guidance & data protection
* Experience in a service improvement setting using a range of service improvement and quality management tools.
* Experience in an acute hospital setting
Communication and relationship skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to data literate persons or groups at various levels
* Ability to deal effectively with a range of queries from Directors, Managers, project leads, and clinical staff.
* Ability to train others in a range of data, measurement, and analytical topics.
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Innovative thinker with the ability to identify and consider alternative ways of enabling data to be collected and presented where conventional options are not available.
* Ability to source data from a variety of sources.
* Able to act as an expert in the field of data capture, manipulation, and dissemination.
* Ability to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present it in the most appropriate format (maps, charts, tables, etc).
* Ability to analyze, interpret and present highly complex information from large data sets
* Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence - including an understanding of MS Excel & SQL
* High level of numeracy with good problem-solving and attention to detail
Planning and organisation skills
* Excellent organizational and planning skills
* Set own priorities and develop work programmes for the department
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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