Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: QMC
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Advanced Analyst
Band 7
Job overview
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.
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:
* Collaborating with users to understand requirements, identifying data sources, and selecting appropriate analytical techniques.
* Generating specifications and planning analytical projects.
* Designing metrics and establishing measurement requirements to demonstrate success.
* Designing and delivering analysis for evaluation, identifying appropriate data sources and methods.
* Developing tools to support data capture, extraction, linkage, analysis, and presentation.
* Offering expert advice to senior managers on system management/data/analytical issues, including techniques and accurate interpretation.
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 organisations 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 post graduate 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 in the most appropriate format (maps, charts, tables etc).
* Ability to analyse, 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 organisational and planning skills.
* Set own priorities and develop work programmes for the department.
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 the NUH we will endeavour 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.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available.
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part-time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
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