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Job summary

Main area
Administrative
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
201-24-511
Employer
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Latham Park / Flexible working
Town
Par
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Information Analyst

Band 6

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

  • Care based on what matters to people.
  • Care provided at home or close to home.
  • Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
  • Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

  • Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
  • Technology enabled care.
  • Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
  • Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

  • A place people love to work and feel valued.
  • Living our values with staff (all voices count).
  • Attract, grow and develop talent.
  • Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

  • Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
  • Joined-up community services.
  • Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
  • Reduce our impact on the environment.

 At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

 

Job overview

The post holder will be part of a team that operate as a resource pool within the Trusts Business Analytics team providing analysis and visualisation solutions across the Trust servicing the needs of key stakeholders. The post holder will specialise in using advanced statistical tools to support planning, forecasting and visualisations.

Proposed interview date:  to be confirmed

Main duties of the job

  • Identify, develop and prepare information reports to meet the business agenda for Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust (CFT) including detailed reports to support Finance, Operations and Contracting. Providing business information and data analysis to support organisation in income forecasting, tariff, forecasting and capacity planning.
  • Be responsible for investigating specialist or complex business analysis issues, advising staff on systems and/or policy that will affect business information and/or data. Be responsible for interpreting a range of business information and/or data, explaining complex issues to non-technical professionals.
  • Develop and create specialist information reports to Business Partners, managers, clinicians and other staff across CFT and the health community, on a routine and ad hoc basis, liaising with external bodies as appropriate.
  • Support the co-ordination of robust and effective implementation of systems and processes developed for clinical audit and effectiveness.
  • Enable the effective use of information, helping users to identify their information requirements and supporting them in their use and interpretation of information. Propose policy or service changes, impact beyond own area.
  • They will also assist in coaching users in the analysis and interpretation of the information and how to use it to guide their decision making, advising on issues of data standards and quality as necessary

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health.  We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases.  Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon.  As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time.  Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Significant experience of extracting & analysing complex and sensitive data to support the monitoring requirements to meet NHS targets. Significant experience in the use of information systems e.g. SQL, Access databases, Excel
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a complex problem-solving environment. Ability to find answers that aren’t always immediately obvious

Skills and Aptitude

Essential criteria
  • Highly Skilled in collecting, extracting and validating complex and sensitive data from a variety of computer systems.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff across the Trust, including very senior managers
Desirable criteria
  • Specialist knowledge and understanding of Mental Health and Community information, clinical terminology and coding systems.

Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Detailed knowledge of NHS Rio system
  • Knowledge of the NHS data model and data sets specifically related to the Trust
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Population Health Modelling principles

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeArmed Forces Covenant

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jon Trower
Job title
Head of Business Analytics
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

 

 

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