Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/11/2024 23:59
Performance Analyst
Band 6
Job overview
Do you thrive on using data to gain insight and drive improvements? Are you resourceful, forward thinking and do you enjoy working collaboratively to design and develop high quality and comprehensive information for quality improvement? Come and join us!
This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Performance Analyst to join our dynamic team, working as a highly skilled specialist leading on the detailed analysis, interpretation and provision of high-quality medicines related information. The role will sit as part of the Pharmacy IT team, supporting core business and medicines value requirements and quality improvement of the Pharmacy department and medicines use at LUHFT. Our Pharmacy IT team works flexibly across our sites, in close collaboration with the Trust Business Intelligence and data teams.
You will have an eye for detail and be able to communicate clearly and knowledgeably in relation to all aspects of report development. This includes engaging with stakeholders across Pharmacy, the wider Trust and externally in identifying how information can be utilised in new and innovative ways to enhance service planning, monitoring and delivery.
Main duties of the job
* Ensure the timely production and presentation of information resulting from routine and ad-hoc requests for information to an advanced level.
* Use highly specialist judgement, knowledge and communication skills to achieve required outcomes.
* Identify solutions based on the available information and the priorities of the service.
* Complete statutory and locally defined returns.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Participate in the design of improvement measures and set up reporting mechanisms to capture the relevant data on a monthly basis.
* Provide advice to staff on collecting, reporting and using collected data.
* Present results to the Project Team and on other occasions as necessary.
* Lead the design of sustainable information management within the Trust, through leading the development of information management, including supporting the introduction of new reports and training and development.
* Merge data from other sources with programme data to provide a comprehensive picture of performance within the Trust.
* Lead on the data aspects of diagnosing constraints and bottlenecks across whole patient pathways.
Person specification
Other
* Self-starter and highly motivated – able to work to tight deadlines.
Skills
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Evidence of analytical ability & problem-solving skills.
* Able to present information to a non-technical audience.
* Ability to use Microsoft Access and Excel macros and Visual Basic.
Knowledge
* Understanding of NHS Information Systems.
* An understanding of whole systems approaches.
* Good working knowledge of improvement science.
* Knowledge of Statistical Process Control.
Experience
* Demonstrable public sector experience in an analysis or performance review role.
* Experience of specifying user information needs.
* Experience in problem diagnosis, report writing, presentation, and persuasion.
* Experience of using data analysis products including Microsoft Office products, Excel, Access, and Power BI to analyse data and draw out key issues.
* Significant NHS experience at a senior level.
* Experience or involvement in developments in the use of information management to support service improvement.
Qualifications
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
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