Within Data and Analytics our vision is to be the leading data services provider for health and social care across England through creating innovative and high-quality data products and services that give our customers the knowledge and capabilitiesrequiredto deliver the best outcomes for citizens.
Timelines of this recruitment: interviews for these roles will take place in January 2025.
There are a range of Band 7 Analytics vacancies, and more may be added to this recruitment campaign. Therefore, your application will be considered for opportunities within multiple teams and the office base for these roles is from any NHSE location. There is a blend of permanent and fixed term contracts available.
Allocation of specific roles will be undertaken later in the process once appointable candidates have been selected.
Your application should demonstrate how you meet the essential person specification criteria listed within the vacancy advert.
The Strategic Analysis team supports NHS England to understand and solve many of the NHS’s most important strategic challenges, ultimately improving outcomes for patients.
Strategic Analysis is a cross-disciplinary team of technical specialists in economics, behavioural science and other analytical professions. The team operates as an in-house project-based consultancy, working across analytical and professional boundaries.
We collaborate with policy and programme teams to translate strategy and analysis into real-world impact. We use many different methods including econometric modelling, other advanced quantitative analysis, experimental methods, and qualitative research. Examples of our work include modelling the drivers of NHS productivity, the impact of health on employment, improving cancer screening, and economies of scale modelling.
The team’s projects use advanced technical or strategic skills often from economics or behavioural science. Strategic Analysis has a range of backgrounds and we seek to ensure an appropriate mix to deliver our work.
Strategic Analysis:a cross-disciplinary team operating as an in-house project-based consultancy, working across analytical and professional boundaries. We use many different methods including econometric modelling, other advanced quantitative analysis, experimental methods, and qualitative research. For this role, we are seeking an individual with general strategic and advanced analytical skills and a strong track record of applying a range of frameworks to understand, analyse and solve strategic problems
Modelling and System Analytics: a specialist team with 15-20 multi-disciplinary analysts with a range of backgrounds such as operational research, statistics, epidemiology and others. The team works closely with internal and external stakeholders in a project-based manner working with customers to scope requirements and provide analytical solutions to improve and support their decision making.
The Cancer Analysis and Insights Team (CAIT): This team supports the National Cancer Programme to take a data-driven approach to Operational Performance and delivering of the ambitions in the NHS Long Term plan (covering Early Diagnosis; faster diagnosis; innovation; system planning; health inequalities and treatment and care). The team does this through producing data; analysis and modelling, to monitor current delivery and outcomes, and inform future policy and service planning. This specific role is based within the Early Diagnosis and Health Inequalities part of the team.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
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Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.
This advert has attached Assignment Briefs/ information relating to roles currently vacant. However, please be aware that this recruitment may also be used to fill other positions that become vacant after the time of advert, for which Assignment Briefs or team information are not available. This will be limited to roles where the competencies to be assessed and requirements for the role are appropriately similar.
We provide analytical insight to NHSE from team to board level to:
· improve access to NHS care across different settings including elective, urgent care, cancer, diagnostics, primary, community, and mental health
· promote value for money within the NHS including on medicines, workforce, direct commissioning, planning and oversight
· drive quality improvement, through benchmarking, model health system and clinical audits & registries. Supporting priorities for patient safety, LTCs, prevention, maternity and improving population health and reducing inequalities
This advert closes on Saturday 7 Dec 2024