NHS Humber Health Partnership (Hull University Teaching Hospitals and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trusts) are looking for a talented and experienced individuals to join the team as a Principal Information Analyst.
We are looking for someone who can understand and discuss an issue, investigate, and aggregate data from a wide range of sources (both internally and externally) analyse the data, and then communicate findings to a range of different audiences succinctly and confidently.
The successful candidate must be a good team player, who can manage their own workload and work to deadlines successfully along with managing a team of Analysts. The candidate will also be an experienced analyst with experience of Microsoft Products especially Excel, T-SQL, Power BI and SSRS.
The post holder is responsible for supporting with the development, implementation, and use of a range of descriptive and analytical statistical techniques. There will also be a requirement to influence managers and clinicians with narrative and graphic tools that explain the data in statistical terms, making appropriate connections between measures to provide a triangulated picture of performance.
The Information Services team is based either at Beacon House in Scunthorpe or in Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham Hull, however the team run a hybrid of in the office and working from home.
The successful candidate will be an experienced analyst with a proven NHS data background. You will be an excellent communicator to ensure best use of your analytical skills to improve clinical services and ultimately outcomes for our patients. As a principal analyst, you will have specific area of focus where you will lead for both service delivery, and specialist knowledge. As a member of the Senior Informatics' team, you will focus on the following areas;
• Understanding and advising on the Trust's waiting lists - supporting clinical services to reduce long waits.
• Key support to transformation programs.
• Leading on contracting and planning for the Trust.
• Supporting the lead on statuary, regular, and performance reporting and returns, championing data quality and accuracy, along with providing transparency to internal teams.
• Responsibility for providing information to support the Trust’s Quality & Performance Agenda.
• Capacity and demand, data modelling and forecasting.
The successful candidate will be a good team player, who can manage their own workload and work to deadlines successfully. The candidate will also be an experienced analyst with experience of Microsoft Products, especially Excel, T-SQL, Power BI, DAX, and SSRS. The candidate will also have advanced numeric skills and strong analytical and statistical techniques.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Feb 2025