Job summary
- Main area
- Business Intelligence
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 252-6857396
- Employer
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Darent Valley Hospital
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum including high cost area allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Join us as a Principal Analyst in the Surgical, Critical, and Planned Care or Medicine, Cancer, and Emergency Care divisions, where your expertise will drive service transformation and strategic success. You will play a key role in improving elective services / optimizing patient flow through emergency pathways, helping the Trust achieve vital constitutional targets.
Your in-depth knowledge of RTT, Diagnostics, and theatre data—or Cancer and ED data—will fuel actionable insights that support our goal of becoming a fully data-driven organisation by 2030.
Key Responsibilities
- Insightful Analysis: Transform complex data into actionable insights to enhance care and operations.
- Collaborative Innovation: Partner with teams to integrate data-driven decisions across the Trust.
- Digital Transformation: Advance the Trust’s digital roadmap and business intelligence capabilities.
- Performance Optimization: Identify benchmarking opportunities and assess productivity, especially in theatre operations.
- Decision Support: Foster a culture of agile, data-driven decision-making.
What You Bring
- Specialised Expertise: Strong knowledge of RTT, Diagnostics, theatre data, or Cancer and ED data.
- Technical Skills: Advanced SQL and data visualisation abilities.
- Precision: Passion for accuracy and detail.
- Communication: Ability to deliver meaningful insights.
- Visionary Thinking: Alignment with our 2030 goals.
This is a perfect role for innovative analysts ready to improve outcomes through data.
Main duties of the job
The Principal Analyst is responsible for the timely and accurate provision of statutory reporting and the analysis and development of accurate, insightful reports that inform and improve service provision to the organisation and externally.
The post holder will be accountable for the compilation and submission of many of the Trusts statutory returns and also demonstrate highly developed skills in analysis, interpretation and presentation of focussed information to support the Trust’s operational performance management and to inform decision making within the Trust.
The post holder will be a highly organised individual with strong attention to detail and a commitment to providing high quality and accurate Information. They will have a progressive and proactive attitude; actively contribute to advancing the skill set and productivity of the team and wider organisation and be responsible for ensuring specialist and/or complex information is processed in accordance with Trust policies & procedures.
The role will involve investigating specialist or complex data issues. On occasions to also provide specialist advice to staff on systems and/or
policy and develop or adapt complex software, information reports or analyse / interpret complex information / data or deliver specialist training.
This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer. We strive to employ people who reflect the communities we serve, and aim to create an inclusive culture where everyone can reach their full potential. Whatever your race, ethnicity, belief, generation, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability or experience, you’ll appreciate the opportunities we give you to work in an inclusive atmosphere. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build on the progress we’ve achieved to make our Trust diverse and the best place to work. We celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that help us overcome challenges and embrace new possibilities. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant Pledge and have a commitment to the Armed Forces Community.
We are dedicated to using our Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach as our shared organisation model of change to enhance our services and ensure excellence in patient care.
If you are considering applying for a role, please be aware that as an NHS Employee you may have contact with vulnerable service users. We strongly encourage that all our staff are vaccinated against COVID-19 and are vaccinated annually against Flu, in order to protect the health and safety of our staff and patients. Your commitment will help us to put the safety and care of our patients first, as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Managerial responsibilities:
Ensure the submission of accurate returns from the Trust for the Department of Health, Area Team, Secondary User Service (SUS) and to meet other statutory requirements by the appropriate deadlines.
Ensure the provision of information for the Trust Board, the Clinical Divisions and senior managers throughout the Trust as outlined in the Service Level Agreements by the appropriate deadline to the required quality standards.
Ensure timeliness, accuracy and completeness of analytical information support to the Local Delivery Plan, Performance Management, Modernisation, National Service Frameworks and local strategic planning functions required by the Trust.
Working with the Head of BI and Performance and other senior managers in the Trust, to determine the requirements for routine and ad-hoc information service provision and standards to support clinical care and decision-making. To ensure that service arrangements are in place for these items including key performance indicators and that they are described in the Service Level Agreements for the Trust.
Ensure implementation of the local mechanisms for each system in the Trust to use the most current sets of national codes and Area Team standards – i.e. GP codes, practice codes, other organisation codes, ethnic codes, etc. and including the appropriate dissemination and implementation of Data Set Change Notices.
Ensure that the Business Intelligence Team infrastructure is developed to be relevant, operationally stable and efficient. This will include designing, developing and adapting complex software using principally MS SQL and MS VB for applications.
Act as a BI liaison to the clinical divisions including attending divisional meetings and acting as a subject matter expert for the BI Team
Manage junior staff in the Business Intelligence Team
To motivate staff and ensure that personal objectives of the teams are centred on the service provision and customer service philosophy.
Develop across all disciplines within the Trust increased awareness of the importance of information management, standards and process management to ensure that the data accreditation standards are maintained and built upon.
Train staff in relevant information systems
Support the Head of BI and Performance to deliver demand and capacity modelling by assisting divisions to assess capacity and demand for clinical services.
Participate in the On-Call rota.
Person specification
1. Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Based on your previous education and training how do you demonstrate advanced computer skills including Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft products including Excel? Provide examples of how you use these in your current role.
Desirable criteria
- Provide examples where you have demonstrated the following skills: Power BI dashboards, Automation
Knowledge and Skills - Demonstrate how you meet the following using examples:
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and participation in service development projects
- Knowledge of Trust procedures and protocols
- Extensive knowledge of NHS Data Dictionary, Data Manual and CDS Manual
- In depth understanding of SUS requirements
- Good knowledge of PAS
- In depth knowledge of relevant departmental processes
- In depth specialist knowledge of NHS information issues, strategies and developments
- Knowledge of information / informatics systems used within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the core constitutional standards and reporting requirements
- Understanding of Acute services and patient pathways
- Knowledge of data standards relating to Acute services including Elective Care, Emergency Care, Diagnostics and Maternity
Experience - Using examples from your own experience describe how you meet the following criteria
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in a Senior Information Services post
- Managerial experience, proven ability to motivate team members, including providing leadership and delegation
- Data Analysis experience
- Production of information and data returns
- Experience of managing process for data accreditation
- Ability to organise information logically and systematically
- Demonstrable planning, researching and report-writing skills to Board Level
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and presentation
- Demonstrable ability to make highly complex technical methodologies understandable and real for users
- In depth proven experience of project work
- Experience in modelling skills (e.g. demand & capacity)
- Able to interpret National Policy and Guidelines
- Proven ability to liaise with multidisciplinary teams at all levels
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience leading Statutory reporting relating to key constitutional standards in an acute environment
- Previous experience leading reporting in an acute environment
- Previous experience with model hospital and other benchmarking tools
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- A logical approach to problem solving quickly and practically, highly developed problem solving skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise work
- Excellent interpersonal skills, written and oral
- Flexible approach to work
- Ability to work collaboratively and co-operatively with managers, colleagues and external agencies
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Willingness to learn
- Able to act without reference to manager, works autonomously
- Acts as a lead within specialist area
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Garner
- Job title
- Data Quality and Analytics Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 428100
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