The Insights and Intelligence Team is an analytical service supporting NHS England by providing information, analysis and analytical support. We have an aim of 'do once and automate' wherever possible and therefore produce South West Regional products for use by the centre and locally. This approach reduces the analytical overhead enabling us to support local analysis where required and ensures consistency of reporting across the South West region.
This role is a key part of the Analytical Products Team. With support from other team members, this role will support delivering data, automation, and visualisation topics to support the region and ICSs with their analytical needs, as well as supporting others within the Analytical Products team. This role will often work as part of multi-disciplinary ‘squads’, made up of colleagues, both internal and external to the Insights and Intelligence team, to deliver on projects that require a range of skills and knowledge. In consideration of the national competency framework this role will most closely align to the Data analyst job family at Associate practitioner level. The specialisms expected to strongly feature within the Analytical Products team are data visualisation, Statistical process control (SPC), Technological specialisms, Data automation and Information governance.
This role is based in the Analytical Products work area. This team will provide the foundation of robust analysis allowing reliable insightful analysis by delivering data, automation, and visualisation expertise to the region and ICSs. It will support the delivery of improved data collection, quality & compliance, infrastructure and access across the SW through liaison with and support to ICB and provider teams. It will support the local implementation of national policy & standards across ICSs, including supporting the roll out and delivery of national data programmes.
Core functions of this team include:
• Manage all regular reporting
• Develop ad hoc reporting solutions
• Software and dashboard design expertise - automate/productionize reporting processes
• display the data story in the most easily consumable format
• Data Liaison between National team and Systems, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) etc
• Manage and assess datasets & data platforms (e.g. UDAL, support FDP roll-out)
• Data quality - Compensate for outliers and missing data, Data quality reporting
• Work with ICBs to improve data quality
• Data Collections - Support ICBs & Providers with national data collections & Manage any local data collections
• Translate National requirements to region and system level & Support ICSs with IG and data management needs
• Co-ordinate Data Access
• Horizon scanning
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.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Insights and Intelligence Team in the South West Region.
You will expected to carry out tasks such as:
• Cleanse and manage data (including processing)
• Quality assure data and analytical outputs following best practice guidelines
• Integrate data feeds from disparate sources
• Respond to incoming requests for information in a timely and efficient manner
• Develop business intelligence reports
• Plan, design, manage, execute and report tests, using appropriate tools and techniques
• Be highly numerate and use a variety of analytical techniques to provide high quality, timely analysis and intelligence relating to key priorities
• Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, to analyse and triangulate data in innovative ways and present findings clearly to a range of audiences
• Log, analyse and manage problems in order to identify and implement the appropriate solution, ensuring that the problem is fixed.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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This advert closes on Monday 23 Sep 2024