Job summary
The Healthcare Evaluation Data (HED) team within the Health Informatics Department are looking for a skilled Information Analyst to join our talented team.
You will play a key role in the provision and support of our online analytics platform, HED. This will include the design, development, implementation, support, and maintenance of HED Systems.
You will work to empower end-users as you create bespoke analytical reports, respond to technical product queries, and develop standardised healthcare indicators.
This post offers a truly unique opportunity for a technically talented analyst to help build an innovative product that will inform and empower decision makers across the NHS.
Main duties of the job
In your role as an Information Analyst in the HED team, you'll get to:
1. Apply your knowledge in MS SQL Server related products and Tibco Spotfire to deliver flexible solutions and respond to technical queries.
2. Work with national datasets to create healthcare benchmarking indicators and analytical reports that provide insight to our diverse user-base.
3. Develop new skills and work within a close-knit, enthusiastic and highly-effective team with a strong ethos of personal development.
4. Empower clinical and non-clinical end users across the NHS with the provision of business intelligence allowing for evidence-based health service management.
This post would be ideally suited to a skilled analyst with a keen understanding of the practical application of HED products across a range of end-user scenarios. The post holder will be responsible for building and maintaining analytical products to ensure the Trust can meet existing and new national and local requirements for HED Systems.
Shortlisted applicants will first be invited to a technical competency test at Yardley Court, Edgbaston, with the best-performing candidates being invited back for a full interview.
The role is based at Yardley Court, Edgbaston & working from home.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can; offering a wide variety of training and development opportunities to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Minimum grade C/4 GCSE English and Maths.
* Degree level or equivalent knowledge and skills in a numerate discipline.
* Post graduate level qualification or comparable equivalent experience in a numerate/ analytical discipline.
* Evidence of further professional development.
Experience Essential
* Experience with database software and applications.
* Familiar with database concepts.
* Experience in providing user support.
* Experience of and confidence in interacting with senior members of an organisation.
* Experience of Microsoft BI tools including SQL Server Analysis Services, Integration Services, & Reporting Services.
* Experience of complex analysis, including able to interpret and provide recommendations for improvements and deliver work to implement recommendations.
Desirable
* Experience of web related technologies and the development of web-based reports.
* Experience of producing automated reports.
* Experience in querying / designing Dimensional Modelled Databases.
* Knowledge of dimensional data modelling methodologies & relational database design.
* Understanding of NHS Healthcare Service.
* Knowledge of NHS data standards, definitions, and guidance, or demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge.
* Knowledge of querying of NHS datasets / systems (or other highly complex data).
Additional Criteria Essential
* Able to work and travel across all UHB sites as required.
Employer name: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Yardley Court, 11-13 Frederick Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 1JD
Employer's website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm
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